WordPress
WordPress User Roles: What They Are and How to Use Them
If you’re the only person who accesses your WordPress site, keeping track of who does what is simple. However, many sites have multiple users with individual accounts. You don’t want to risk giving anyone access to options and features they’re not supposed to engage with. In particular, if you’re designing Beaver Builder websites for clients…
Read More12 Best WordPress Books for Learning the Platform
WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS). Currently the platform powers more than 32% of the web, and it’s estimated that there are close to 64 million WordPress sites. Most people who work online will encounter WordPress at some point in their career, and obviously it’s an excellent platform for building your…
Read More6 Actionable Steps to Reduce High Bounce Rate For WordPress Site
You might be wondering what is a “bounce rate” in the first place? Let me explain… A bounce is a single-page session on your website. When a user lands on your website and leaves without performing a single action (zero engagement), the session is classified as a bounced session. Thus, bounce rate is the percentage…
Read MoreDifference between Gutenberg and Page Builders like Beaver Builder, Elementor, and Divi
What is the difference between page builders and Gutenberg? This question has been coming up a lot! In this post, we explain how page builders differ from Gutenberg and the best scenarios to understand when to use one or the other. TL;DR:Â Page builders provide designers and developers with far more control when creating pages. Fonts,…
Read MoreThoughts on Gutenberg and a WordCamp US Recap
A few of us from the Beaver Builder team had the opportunity to attend WordCamp US 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee, this week. I’d like to try something new this year and write down a few thoughts about the event and share photos. Beaver Builder has benefited hugely from the WordPress project and community, and we…
Read MoreBest Image Compression Tools for WordPress – Lossless, Lossy, JPEG, and PNG
Today, we’re going to talk about a subject near and dear to my heart, image compression! I’m half-kidding, but there is something oddly satisfying about shaving huge percentages off an image file size without diminishing any quality. The inspiration for this post stemmed from a very popular post in the Beaver Builders Facebook group. I had…
Read MoreGoogle Analytics for Web Designers & Developers
Hey all! Today, I want to introduce my good friend, Andy. Andy has been helping small businesses improve their online presence for over a decade. When I mentioned that we were considering a blog post about metrics and analytics, he jumped at the opportunity to help. This post is a deep dive on Google Analytics…
Read MoreHow to Test and Interpret WordPress Site Performance with Jon Brown — Do Go Chasing Waterfalls
Our friends at WP Engine recently rolled out a beautiful new homepage built with Beaver Builder. We shared a link to the page in the Beaver Builders Facebook Group and a few folks noted that the overall load time of the page was quite high. Our good friend and WordPress developer extraordinaire, Jon Brown, came to the…
Read More4 Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins to use with Beaver Builder
Today, we have a post from our good friend, Syed Balkhi. We met Syed a few years back at a conference and we learned a TON from him about business strategy, blogging, and affiliate programs. Syed is the co-founder of WPForms and this article discusses which contact form is the best for your site. While…
Read MoreFuture of the Web – Gutenberg is Facebook and WordPress is MySpace
Here at Beaver Builder, we’ve been closely following and participating in WordPress’ new editor project, Gutenberg. One of the challenges of building software is you want people using and testing it as early as possible, but the earlier you release something the further away it is from the end vision. I think Gutenberg has suffered a…
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