Can AI turn non-coders into pro WordPress plugin developers? To find out, we asked ChatGPT to build a custom WordPress plugin from scratch and then had our crack team of developers examine the code… AI is the world’s most popular two-letter word right now. With all the recent news headlines about whether AI will take our jobs away, we wanted to know… can ChatGPT actually develop a functional and useful WordPress plugin without having to write code from scratch? And does the plugin meet best coding practices? Fortunately, WPMU DEV builds some of the most robust WordPress plugins in the world, s ..read more

With the evolution of AI technologies like ChatGPT, many questions linger about the future of WordPress development and how AI can actually help – not hurt – your job or business. Sophisticated artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT can perform many tasks that previously required human intelligence. If you’re concerned about AI eventually replacing you and taking your job (we’ve written before about how AI will affect the WordPress industry), fear not. This article explores some of the many ways that AI, specifically ChatGPT, can actually help you as a WordPress developer. After readi ..read more

SmartCrawl‘s Automatic Linking feature allows you to automatically turn specific keywords or phrases into internal or external links within your site’s content, saving you time and effort, making interlinking a breeze, and boosting your website’s overall SEO. Interlinking web pages is essentially what makes the web the web. Smart and effective interlinking of web pages will improve your site’s SEO and play a crucial role in increasing the visibility and success of your website. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover practical uses of the SmartCrawl plugin’s Automatic Linking feature and how ..read more

Asking the right questions to evaluate a digital marketing agency before outsourcing your marketing needs is important. The questions below will help to ensure a perfect fit and a successful long-term partnership. You’ve researched the costs and benefits of outsourcing your digital marketing needs to an agency vs building an in-house marketing team and decided that outsourcing is the more cost-effective option. Now, you just need to find the right partner. In this article, we list the essential questions you should ask before outsourcing to find the right agency for your needs and explain why ..read more

From cost savings to leveraging expertise, outsourcing your digital marketing needs to our Agency Partners is a smart and cost-effective decision, especially if your business has limited resources. Is your business struggling to keep up with the constantly changing marketing landscape? Hiring external professionals or agencies to handle certain tasks or functions that would normally be done in-house will provide significant benefits and advantages. In recent years, outsourcing has become a prevalent business strategy, especially for businesses looking to scale up, and marketing is no exception ..read more

Having a brilliant website isn’t enough. Even if your business came with a substantial, pre-existing customer base (and let’s face it, most don’t), continuing communication is essential for retainment and growth. Running a successful business means building and maintaining a connection with your clients – existing and potential. There are, of course, many ways to reach your business prospects in today’s digital world: paid ads, social media, real-time messaging platforms, chat, and more. But would you be shocked to learn that email – approaching its 45th birthday! – remains the most used, most ..read more

Breadcrumbs are now baked into SmartCrawl, along with another hotly requested feature… setting primary categories for posts and products! SmartCrawl 3.5 gives you the ability to improve your WordPress site navigation for users and search engines with two new powerful features: breadcrumbs, and the ability to specify primary categories when assigning multiple categories to your posts or product pages. In this article, we explain the benefits of using SmartCrawl’s latest new features and how to get the most out of them. We’ll cover: What’s a Breadcrumb? Why Use Breadcrumbs? Where Can You Use Br ..read more

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Mind maps can help you visually organize your ideas and information, streamline your development process, and facilitate collaboration. Here are six ways to speed up your WordPress web development process with mind mapping… Professional web developers need to work smarter and faster to get things done and delivered on time and on budget. There are plenty of tools to help speed up your WordPress web development when building a website. But what about tools to help you get your thinking organized before you actually start working on a project? How do you sort, filter and organize everything ..read more

Would you like to move qualified prospects through your web dev sales process more successfully, deliver consistently better results, and send your sales closing rates soaring? Of course you would, right?! Well, good news – you’re in the right place to learn how! This no-hype guide to running a hyper successful client briefing session will show you how to boost sales of your web development services. We’ll cover the following topics: Your Client Briefing Secret Weapon The 7 Stages of an Effective Sales System The Needs Analysis Presentation Designing Your Needs Assessment Questionnaire What t ..read more