Today, I’m extremely excited to share that Envira Gallery, NextGen Gallery, Photocrati Theme, and Soliloquy Slider are joining Awesome Motive, and they’re now part of the WPBeginner family of products.
Envira Gallery and Soliloquy were part of Awesome Motive, and we sold the business at the end of 2017. I’m so excited to welcome them back home along with the NextGen Gallery and Photocrati theme.
Introduction – Quick Overview of the Plugins
Envira Gallery makes it easy to create beautiful photo and video galleries with its easy-to-use drag-and-drop gallery builder. It comes with several gallery themes and powerful addons that allow you to organize your pictures with albums and tags.
I use Envira Gallery on many of my websites.
It’s well optimized for web and server performance and ensures maximum speed.
NextGEN Gallery is another popular photo gallery plugin, with over 32 million downloads. It comes bundled with several gallery layouts, lightbox gallery view, and dozens of other Pro gallery extensions.
Its powerful built-in eCommerce system enables you to easily sell your photos, accept payments, and even ship printed photos directly to customers with its automatic WHCC print fulfillment.
Beautiful WordPress Photography Theme
Photocrati is the best WordPress theme built for photography websites.
Photocrati makes it easy to get your photography website up and running, thanks to tons of built-in demo themes and a 1-click demo installer.
With its built-in gallery management feature, you can manage unlimited galleries with ease.
Create Beautiful and Blazing Fast Sliders in Minutes
Soliloquy is one of the most popular WordPress slider plugins, with over 50,000 active installs. Since its inception, it has been helping site owners, small businesses, and even Fortune 500 companies create beautiful WordPress sliders in minutes.
Unlike most slider plugins, which could slow down your website, Soliloquy is built with performance in mind. In fact, we tested and compared the top 5 popular WordPress slider plugins, and Soliloquy turned out to be the fastest of them all.
Its user interface is sleek, and you’ll feel like it’s part of the native WordPress environment.
As part of the acquisition, the entire team behind all of these products is also joining Awesome Motive. The team will be led by Zach Kwarta, who will be serving as General Manager of Envira Gallery and Imagely business units.
I will be working closely with him, and I’m super excited about bringing you more powerful solutions to help grow your website.
Background Story
Now, those of you who have been following WPBeginner for a while probably remember that we actually created both Envira Gallery and Soliloquy.
Both of these plugins were part of Awesome Motive in the early days, and they were created by my co-founder in OptinMonster, Thomas Griffin.
We sold the plugins in 2017 to Nathan Singh because I wanted to focus on our business growth tools: OptinMonster, WPForms, and MonsterInsights.
At that time, we simply did not have the right team infrastructure or operational playbook to manage a wide variety of plugins. I was still learning how to manage multiple fast-growing businesses, and I was truly afraid that Envira / Soliloquy would be overshadowed by our larger brands and get neglected.
I simply could not let that happen because that would mean that I would be letting you (our community) down. So, I made the hard decision to let someone lead Envira Gallery so it could continue getting the love and attention that it truly deserved.
Over the last 5 years, Nathan not only maintained Envira Gallery, he also consolidated the gallery plugin market by acquiring the most popular WordPress gallery plugin, NextGen Gallery, along with the Photocrati theme.
As he was looking to move on to the next chapter of his life, it only felt fitting that we bring Envira Gallery and Soliloquy back home to Awesome Motive along with Imagely.
In the same 5 year period, Awesome Motive grew a lot. We developed expertise and systems to manage multiple high quality WordPress plugins & SaaS software that are now used by over 25 million websites worldwide.
We went from being a software company that created growth tools to becoming a world renowned software company that builds tools to help small businesses grow and compete with the big guys.
What’s Coming Next?
Our work is just starting.
We will be leveraging the scale and knowledge of the Awesome Motive team to start innovating in the WordPress gallery space once again.
If you have suggestions on features you’d like to see in Envira Gallery, Imagely, or Soliloquy plugin, please let us know by sending us a message via WPBeginner contact form.
As always, I want to thank you for your continued support of WPBeginner.
Every time I share an announcement like this, I realize that I’m only able to do what I love every day because of you, our amazing readers, and I’m extremely grateful for your support throughout the years.
WPBeginner and Awesome Motive would not be here without YOU, and I just want to say how much I appreciate all of you.
And I look forward to continuing serving you and the larger WordPress / web ecosystem for years to come.
Ever wished there was an easy way to point out nitty-gritty details of your SEO, so you don’t have to worry about it?
Every minor detail can fluctuate search rankings, but ensuring they’re in place is not easy.
Today, I’m excited to share the launch of my brand new Google Chrome extension, All in One SEO Analyzer, which shows you all your SEO details in a click.
We built this tool to help you save time with fast SEO checks, so you can focus on creating great content while our tool handles the SEO details.
Once you install the extension on your Chrome browser, all you have to do is to visit the page where you want to perform an SEO analysis. Then click on the extension, and you’ll get a detailed SEO report of that page, which includes…
Analysis of basic SEO elements, like meta descriptions, titles, keywords, and content structure
SEO score analysis of your meta data, which shows you whether they need further improvement
Quick links to your robots.txt file and your website’s sitemap
Detailed reports of your heading tags, image’s SEO, internal, and external links, schema markups, social media tags, and more.
In a nutshell, the All in One SEO Analyzer Chrome extension shows you all your SEO details instantly.
Why Use the All in One SEO Analyzer Chrome Extension?
For most website owners, SEO is complex because there is no clear-cut way to analyze your website’s SEO unless you hire an SEO consultant or buy premium software that costs a fortune.
Unfortunately, not everyone has the budget or resources to do so, which limits their ability to grow their website and rank better on search engines.
We want to fix it once and for all. This is why we decided to build a free Chrome extension for SEO analysis and make it free for everyone.
Our SEO extension makes it easy to do quick SEO checks and make necessary changes to your site in no time.
Easily Generate an SEO Audit Report
Ever wondered if there’s any room for optimizing your content to boost your SEO?
No matter how well-structured your content is, there will still be room for improving it. With AIOSEO’s Chrome extension, you can scan your entire page with a click and generate an SEO audit report to see if there is any room for improvement to boost search rankings and organic traffic.
Here are a few elements that our Chrome extension helps you analyze and improve.
SEO title and meta description: Optimize how your search results are being shown on search engine result pages for higher click-through rates.
Keywords used and heading tags: The extension shows you how many heading tags are used and what keywords you were using on the site.
Image SEO: It shows you how many images you’re using, whether they’re optimized with alt tags and titles.
Internal and external link count: Have a quick understanding of the total number of links you use on your site, whether they’re internally linked or externally.
Schema.org data: Schema is a type of microdata that provides additional information about the content of a web page to search engines. You can quickly figure out whether you’re using the right Schema markup.
And more…
Perform SEO Analysis of Any Websites
The best thing about our Chrome extension is that it lets you analyze any website you want, whether yours or your competitors.
It also helps you learn from the SEO strategies of your top competitors and peers in your industry so you can discover how they structure their content and replicate the process on your site.
For example, you can visit any blog post you admire, click the extension, and then navigate to the Heading section. Then click the Export button.
All headings used in that article will be downloaded in a CSV file.
Find SEO Errors Right Within WordPress
Do you want to perform a detailed SEO audit and find critical errors right inside your WordPress dashboard? Then, we recommend installing the All in One SEO (AIOSEO) WordPress plugin.
Aside from showing you a detailed report, its free plugin offers suggestions to improve it.
AIOSEO also offers a premium version that provides you with advanced features like a redirection manager, powerful sitemap tools, schema markups and more.
What’s Coming Next?
All in One SEO Analyzer is a great Chrome extension to help you step up your website’s SEO strategy.
SEO takes time, but with the right tools at your disposal, like our Chrome extension, you can save your efforts with fast SEO checks.
The All in One SEO Analyzer Chrome extension provides you with an SEO report, but if you want to get actionable insights into how to make improvements to grow your traffic, then install the free All in One SEO plugin.
Aside from SEO suggestions, it comes with several essential tools, like breadcrumbs, sitemaps, and more, to optimize your site.
We’re truly building something special here. If you have ideas on how we can make the plugin more helpful to you, please send us your suggestions.
As always, I want to thank you for your continued support of WPBeginner, and we look forward to continue serving you for years to come.
Today is July 4th, which means WPBeginner is officially 14 years old. We’ve come a long way!
Like every year, I want to take a few minutes and do a quick recap of all the major things happening in business as well as my personal life.
Bonus: I’m also doing a massive birthday giveaway, and you’ll get a chance to win your favorite premium WordPress plugins worth $50,000. On top of that, you can also win a 1-on-1 mentorship call with me for 1 hour.
I first started using WordPress when I was 16 years old and I fell in love with the community. This led me to start WPBeginner at age 19 with a single mission: to make WordPress easy for beginners.
Since then WPBeginner has become the largest free WordPress resource site for beginners.
For those of you who’re new, you can read the full WPBeginner story on our about page and use the Start Here page to get the most out of WPBeginner.
Personal Updates
My son Solomon is now 6.5 years old, and it’s quite cool to see him taking interest in WordPress. He attended WordCamp Asia with me earlier this year in Bangkok.
His favorite task in the company is coming up with mascot ideas for our new plugins at Awesome Motive.
We as a family are continuing our travels around the world, and it’s really awesome to meet our local WPBeginner users.
Since the last WPBeginner birthday, we have taken trips to Istanbul, Karachi, Alaska, Dubai, California, Mexico, St. Thomas, Maldives, Thailand, Canada, and more.
One of the best parts about running a fully remote online company is that I can work from anywhere in the world. We have team members in 50 countries now, and I’m planning to visit at least few more countries this year.
If you didn’t get a chance to read my 2022 recap, I highly recommend checking it out on my personal blog where I share lessons learned from last year.
Btw, here’s a preview of a mascot that Solomon helped come up with for our new plugin, Duplicator. The mascot’s name is Willie the Walrus.
WPBeginner Updates
Thanks to our awesome community, WPBeginner has continued to grow year after year. Aside from all the amazing WordPress tutorials on our blog, there have been several notable updates from last year that I’d like to highlight.
But before I do that, I want to share a huge milestone that I’m super proud of. We got featured on the NASDAQ billboard in Time Square for passing 25 million active installs of our products.
This was a huge celebration for our entire team — going from a blog to being in Time Square in New York City!!!
We passed a BIG milestone!
Now over 25 million websites are using our software 🚀
I'm super proud of our team @awesomemotive and the amazing work we're doing to help shape the web for billions worldwide.
We also revamped our WPBeginner video site. Now you can access loads of step-by-step videos without hiring a developer for free.
You can follow us on various social media networks, including Facebook and Twitter.
3. Contributing to WordPress and Open Source
We have always been huge supporters of open source. This past year, we revamped our free Insert Headers and Footers plugin from the ground up and relaunched it under a new brand WPCode.
It was originally created to help you add code snippets in WordPress without editing your theme’s functions.php file or installing an additional plugin.
Now we launched a brand new snippet library from where you can find the snippet and add them to your site with one click.
You can also create your own WPCode profile to save snippets, create private snippets, and more.
See the full WPCode announcement to see why this is the most underrated yet MUST HAVE plugin for all websites, and it’s now being used by over 2 million websites!
4. New Acquisitions & Investments
In 2018, I created the WPBeginner Growth Fund to invest in WordPress-focused companies that are solving important problems that you, our readers, want me to help out with.
Over the past 12 months, we have made several big acquisitions and investments in the ecosystem.
We acquired Thrive Themes, company behind some of the most powerful growth tools for WordPress. Over 200,000+ smart website owners use the Thrive plugin suite to easily convert website visitors into email subscribers, paying customers, and raving fans. Some of their plugins include landing page builder, quiz builder, course platform, and more. Here’s the full background story.
We acquired Duplicator, a powerful WordPress backup and migration plugin used by over 1.5 million websites. You can use it to create automatic backups and store them on cloud. It comes with easy restore option to save time. It’s also the best solution to migrate your website from one hosting provider to another, or even from local server to live. Here’s the full background story.
We acquired WP101, which offers professionally-produced WordPress training videos to help you learn WordPress, fast. It’s a perfect solution for business owners to offer WordPress training videos in their employee onboarding process. Here’s the full background story.
We acquired Easy WP SMTP, which helps you solve email delivery issues and prevent your emails from landing in the spam folder.
Aside from the full acquisitions, we also invested in HeroThemes, a company that specializes in building tools to help users deliver great customer service on their websites. See more details here.
I’m really proud of how far we’ve come with the Growth Fund, and it’s really amazing to see the impact our companies are making in the WordPress ecosystem and the larger open web.
Often readers ask me what is WPBeginner’s income, and how does WPBeginner make money by giving away all WordPress tutorials for free.
Well, we make money indirectly through our suite of premium WordPress plugins that are now running on over 25 million websites. Aside from that, we also have investments in a suite of other WordPress companies through our growth fund that I mentioned above.
Our team at Awesome Motive continued to set new records this year, and all of our products saw tremendous growth.
Here’s a list of our plugins that you should check out:
OptinMonster – The #1 conversion optimization software that helps you convert abandoning website visitors into subscribers and customers. There’s also a free version here.
WPForms – The most beginner-friendly WordPress form builder used by over 5 million websites. There’s also a free version – WPForms Lite.
MonsterInsights – The most popular WordPress Analytics plugin to help you grow your business with confidence. I use this on all of my websites. Free version available: MonsterInsights Lite.
AIOSEO – The original WordPress SEO plugin to help you get more traffic. Used by over 3 million websites. There’s also a free version of AIOSEO.
WP Mail SMTP – The #1 plugin that helps improve your WordPress email deliverability. The free version: WP Mail SMTP Lite is sufficient for most website owners.
SeedProd – The best drag & drop website builder for WordPress. You can use it to create custom WordPress themes, landing pages, and website layouts without any code. Try the free version of SeedProd.
RafflePress – A powerful WordPress giveaway and contest plugin to grow your website traffic.
PushEngage – The leading web push notification software for small businesses. It helps send over 9 billion push notifications each month.
SearchWP – The most advanced WordPress search plugin. Completely customize your WordPress search form and search results algorithm to improve your content discoverability and increase sales. Trusted by over 30,000+ website owners.
Easy Digital Downloads – the top-rated WordPress plugin for selling digital products and subscriptions. Easily sell eBooks, software, music, and more, protect digital downloads, accept payments, and more. Trusted by over 50,000+ website owners. Try the free version of EDD.
AffiliateWP – The most popular affiliate management plugin for WordPress. Easily launch an affiliate program for your store. One-click integration with WooCommerce, WPForms, and 20 other payment plugins. Unlock a new growth channel without the middleman fees.
WP Simple Pay – Easily accept payments online without a complex shopping cart setup. Great for simple one-time or recurring payments. Built-in support for credit card payments, ACH bank debit, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Try the free version of WP Simple Pay.
TrustPulse – Leverage the power of social proof to instantly increase site conversions by up to 15%. Automatically show real-time purchase notifications and other website activity notifications to increase trust, conversions, and sales.
WP Charitable – The top-rated donation and fundraising plugin for WordPress. Over 10,000+ non-profit organizations and website owners across the world use Charitable to create fundraising campaigns and raise more money online. Try the free version of Charitable.
Duplicator: Secure your WordPress website with reliable backups. It also makes it easy to migrate and restore your website to your favorite locations. Try the free version of Duplicator.
User Feedback: Easiest way to collect user feedback and make surveys on your website. Great HotJar alternative (free version here).
We’re a fully remote team of over 290+ people across 50 countries. Want to join our team and work alongside me in helping small businesses grow and compete with the big guys? We’re hiring.
WPBeginner Birthday Giveaway
To celebrate the 14th birthday of WPBeginner, we are offering premium plugins worth $50,000.
The prize includes 10 licenses of each of the plugins listed here.
On top of that, you can also win a 1-on-1 mentorship call with me for 1 hour.
The winner will be chosen randomly using a random generator script.
Thank You, Everyone
I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported us in this journey. I really do appreciate all of your retweets, personal emails, content suggestions, and interactions at events.
I also want to say a special thank you to everyone who’s using our plugins because that enables us to keep bringing more free tutorials on WPBeginner.
You all are AMAZING, and without you, there is no WPBeginner.
Do you want to steal keyword ideas from your competitors ethically?
Have you ever wished there was an easy way to fix over optimization on your site and boost search rankings WITHOUT hiring an SEO consultant?
If you’re like me and most other smart website owners, then you have at least wished for this solution a couple of times in your WordPress journey.
Today, I’m excited to release a free WPBeginner tool, Keyword Density Checker, which enables you to check the most optimized keywords on any content or URL, either yours or competitors’ sites.
We built this tool to help you boost your SEO rankings by identifying the right keywords to rank for.
Why Use a Keyword Density Checker?
WPBeginner’s Keyword Density Checker is a powerful online tool that makes it easy to find the most optimized keywords from any content or URL.
The best part is that using this tool is totally free… no signup, installation, or registration is required!
One of the reasons most website owners fail to rank their site on search engines is that it’s not easy to find the right keyword to rank for. Although there are several keyword research tools available on the market, most are either crazy expensive or come with a search limit.
This is why I decided to create an online tool without any search limits and make it free for all WPBeginner readers.
Our free tool reviews your content or website URL and shows you the most optimized keywords from the submitted content to boost your rankings.
It provides you with a list of one word, two word, and three word phrases, ranked by their frequencies and density.
Some of the benefits of our Keyword Density Checker are…
Get 30 highly optimized keywords from every article you submit
Unlimited search for free without any restrictions
It warns you if it finds a keyword with a high-density percentage
Next, submit the URL or content to check the keyword density.
Our tool analyzes the entire content and gives you 30 highly optimized keywords in that content. That is, you’ll get 10 keywords each for a one word phrase, two word phrases, and three word phrases.
You’ll also be shown the total time each of those keywords was used in the content and its density percentage.
It also gives you an overoptimization warning if the tool finds any of those keywords have a high density percentage.
Competitor Analysis with Keyword Density Tool
Ever wondered what keywords your competitors were trying to rank for?
Performing an SEO competitor analysis and extracting the most used keywords from your competitor’s website is one of the cool things you could do with our Keyword Density Tool.
Let’s figure out how to do it.
First of all, list down the top pages from your competitors’ sites that you think are most popular.
Then enter those URLs into our density tool one by one.
With each search, you’ll get a list of 30 keywords that your competitors were trying to rank for. This report tells you what keywords you can potentially focus on when creating new content or optimizing existing ones.
Fix Over Optimization and Boost Your SEO
Over optimization can hurt your search rankings.
In case you’re wondering, over optimization is the practice of adding too many SEO improvements, which eventually leads to backfiring your SEO efforts.
Well-optimized content remains a top ranking factor, but sometimes Google might suspect your site for over optimization, like keyword stuffing. Once you identify the pages that have recently dropped in search rankings and traffic, you’ll need to start de-optimizing those pages.
With Keyword Density Checker, you can identify keywords that are over optimized. We also recommend doing an SEO analysis to discover other SEO errors that could be hurting your SEO.
Perform an SEO Audit Right Within WordPress
If you want to perform an SEO audit right inside your WordPress dashboard, we recommend using the All in One SEO (AIOSEO) WordPress plugin.
Its free plugin comes with all the basic features that help you optimize your site for search engines, including the SEO Analysis tool.
There is also a premium version of AIOSEO that offers advanced features like a redirection manager, schema markup, powerful sitemap tools, and more.
Alternatively, if you’re looking for an online tool that helps you do SEO analysis free of cost, you can take a look at our SEO Analyzer Tool.
Analyze Your Keyword Density Today!
Our Keyword Density Checker is a great tool to help you discover your competitors’ keyword research strategy and fix your content if it’s over optimized.
This is just one of the tools we’ve recently launched. We also launched several other free tools to help small businesses grow and compete with big guys. Here are some of them …
Free Website SEO Analyzer: Audit your site, find critical SEO errors, and create a detailed SEO action plan on how to fix those errors.
If you have ideas on how we can make WPBeginner’s Keyword Density Checker or other tools more helpful for you, then share your thoughts in the comments.
As always, I want to thank you for your continued support of WPBeginner, and we look forward to continue serving you for years to come.
Have you ever wondered how your audience finds you on Google?
Ever wished there was an easy way to figure out the exact terms your target audience type in on search engines WITHOUT the high costs?
If you’re like me and most other smart website owners, then you have at least wished for this solution a couple of times in your WordPress journey.
Today, I am excited to release our free WPBeginner’s Keyword Research Tool, which lets you figure out what your users are searching for on Google.
We built this tool because we want to make it easy and free for everyone to grow their organic traffic with keyword research.
What is WPBeginner’s Keyword Research Tool?
Our Keyword Research Tool is a powerful FREE online platform that lets you generate 300+ keyword ideas for your website in a click.
With this tool, you can quickly find every possible combination of keywords that your potential customers type in on Google. That way, you’ll get to know what keywords you’ll need to rank for on Google to boost your SEO and drive organic traffic.
Most keyword research tools available on the market are either crazy expensive or limit the number of keywords you can discover.
This is why we decided to build a keyword research tool and make it free for our WPBeginner readers.
With our keyword tool, all you need to type in is a seed keyword, and you’ll instantly find hundreds of keyword ideas. Plus, you can even download all the keyword ideas in a CSV file for future use.
And it’s absolutely free of cost. No signup or registration is required to use it.
Some of the benefits of using our keyword research tool are:
Ease of use: You’re just 1 click away from generating hundreds of keyword ideas.
Free unlimited access: Get unlimited access for free. Generate as many keyword suggestions as you want.
Save resources: It saves you time and money. To make it even easier for you, keywords are well organized in several groups.
How to Use WPBeginner’s Keyword Research Tool?
To find keyword ideas you need to rank for, the first thing you’ll need to do is to head over to our Keyword Research Tool page. Then type in your seed keyword, which is a short-tail keyword generally consisting of 1- 3 words. Then click Analyze.
The tool will instantly generate hundreds of ideas, which you can copy and save on your computer. To make it easy for you to brainstorm and analyze keywords, all the keywords are organized into these sections.
Alphabets: All keywords will be arranged in alphabetical order from A to Z.
Prepositions: In this section, you’ll get keywords with prepositions like for, is, near, to, and so on.
Questions: You can find long tail keywords with questions.
Aside from generating keyword ideas, our keyword tool also helps you see keywords organized with a graph in SVG. You can copy SVG to your clipboard. Alternatively, you can download the keywords in a CSV file for future use.
Finding the Right Seed Keywords for the Best Results
In a keyword research process, coming up with a seed keyword is always the starting point. And to find the right seed keywords, you’ll need to ask yourself a few questions:
Write your answers down. Then try to come up with a few seed keywords, each of them consisting of 1 to 3 words.
Our keyword analyzer gives you unlimited access to the tool, meaning you can generate as many keyword ideas as you want based on any number of seed keywords.
Just because you’ll get tons of keyword suggestions doesn’t always mean you need to choose all of them. Keep in mind that filtering out those ideas that don’t matter to your business is also an important part of keyword research.
Create Blog Post Ideas Based on the Keywords
Now that you know how to generate keyword ideas for your site, it’s your turn to bring them into action, like creating blog posts targeting those keywords. To be able to publish great blog posts consistently, you’ll first need to generate some blog post ideas.
With WPBeginner’s Blog Post Idea Generator, you can instantly generate around 250 content ideas, which otherwise would take a few hours, if not days. Backed by data, our free tool analyzes the keyword you entered and provides you with content ideas that are proven to attract your target audience.
Just like our Keyword Research Tool, the blog post idea generator is also a free online tool. No installation or email signup is required!
Start Your Keyword Research Today!
Our Keyword Research Tool is a great platform to help step up your SEO game.
It will only take a couple of minutes to get going with our tool and you’ll be on your way to generating keywords that can drive more organic traffic.
Here are a few of our free tools that will help you grow your SEO even further.
If you have ideas on how we can make WPBeginner’s Free Keyword Research Tool or other tools more helpful for you, then share your thoughts in the comments.
As always, I want to thank you for your continued support of WPBeginner, and we look forward to continue serving you for years to come.
Have you ever wished you could give business cards to people you meet online?
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easy way to let people know how to connect with you WITHOUT spending a dime for an expensive marketing tool?
If you’re like me and most other smart business owners, then you have at least wished for this solution a couple of times in your business journey.
Today, I am excited to release a new FREE tool, WPBeginner’s Email Signature Generator, which helps you let people know who you’re and how to reach out to you.
We built this tool because we want to make it easy and FREE for everyone to create a stunning email signature.
What is WPBeginner’s Email Signature Generator?
Our Email Signature Generator is a powerful FREE online tool that enables you to design aesthetically pleasing email signatures in a few minutes.
No need to hire a designer or use an expensive tool. If you can point and click with a mouse, you can design beautiful email signatures quickly and easily.
The best part is that our email signature builder generates an HTML signature, which is supported by every email client available in the market, including Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, Apple Mail, and more.
As opposed to image-only signatures, HTML signatures reduce the likelihood of your emails being flagged as spam by spam filters.
While a well-designed email signature can help make a good first impression, most people don’t use a signature at all because it’s not easy to design one.
This is why we decided to build the Email Signature tool at WPBeginner and make it free for all our readers.
Below are a few benefits of using an email signature for your emails.
Your digital business card: Email signatures have the same purpose as a business card. It shows you who you are and the brand you represent.
Real person: It reassures your email recipients that they’re communicating with a human being rather than a bot.
Brand awareness: It helps in brand awareness and enables you to show your contact details, website URL, social media profiles, and more.
How to Use WPBeginner’s Email Signature Generator
Now you’ll be directed to our email signature builder, where you can add signature details like name, email address, phone number, website URL, and more. The builder even lets you change the signature template as you customize your signature details.
The signature builder comes with 4 options to tweak your signatures the way you want.
General: Add more info like your name, email address, company name, your position at the company, and the department you work at.
Theme: This is where you pick a different template design if you change your mind.
Addons: Add even more details, like social media profiles, and change the avatar and a logo URL.
Styling: Make advanced changes like fonts and spacing, and make your signature unique.
Next, you’ll be prompted to sign up for the WPBeginner newsletter. And finally, you can copy the HTML signature embed code and paste it into your preferred email client.
Our Signature Generator Improves Deliverability
To improve email deliverability, our Email Signature Generator helps you build HTML email signatures.
Unlike image-only signatures, HTML signatures are not likely to be flagged by spam filters.
That’s because spam filters take text:image ratio into account to figure out whether an email is legitimate or spam.
Using only an image as your signature could potentially reduce the text:image ratio and increases the likelihood of your emails getting flagged by spam filters.
Customize Email Signature the Way You Want
Another benefit of creating HTML signatures is that it’s highly customizable. With our free tool, you can easily add as many or as few details as you want to your email signature.
For example, you can add important details like your first and last name, your business name, job title, and department.
If you want, you can add even more details such as:
Your recent photograph
Your company logo
Social media profile links
And so much more…
Set Up a Professional Email Address for FREE!
Alongside a stunning email signature, we highly recommend using a professional email address. A professional email address uses your company name instead of the generic name, like Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo.
Here’s what a professional email address looks like: john@examplebusiness.com. And here’s an example of a generic email address: john.smith2019@gmail.com.
When a professional email address is used alongside a professional email signature, you can win trust when dealing with other businesses and customers.
On the other hand, since anyone can create generic email accounts, it becomes harder for customers and other businesses to trust generic email addresses as legitimate business email accounts.
Setting up a professional email address is free if you already have a website. If you don’t have a WordPress website yet, you can build one with Bluehost, which offers a free domain name, free business email address, and 60% OFF web hosting.
If you have ideas on how we can make WPBeginner’s Email Signature Generator or other tools more helpful for you, then share your thoughts in the comments.
As always, I want to thank you for your continued support of WPBeginner, and we look forward to continue serving you for years to come.
Do you want to know why your website visitors abandon your site?
Ever wished there was an easy way to read your website visitors’ mindsWITHOUT learning telepathy or using an expensive user survey tool that costs a fortune?
If you’re like me and most other smart website owners, then you have at least wished for this solution a couple of times in your WordPress journey.
Today, I’m excited to share the launch of my free UserFeedback plugin, which enables you to collect real user feedback quickly and easily.
We built this tool because we want to know the “why” behind every website visitor’s action that Google Analytics won’t tell you.
When you know the why or the intent behind users’ actions, you can easily figure out why your visitors buy or do not buy your products.
Background Story
In 2016, I acquired a Google Analytics plugin for WordPress, completely revamped it, and launched it as MonsterInsights.
The goal of this plugin was to help users make informed decisions by showing them the data that matters to their businesses.
For example, you can easily see which products or pages are the most popular or where your most profitable traffic comes from.
As the plugin grows, I often get asked by our users: is there a way to understand the intent of every website visitors’ actions?
When you know the intent … the “why” behind users’ actions, you can figure out why customers purchased from you or, better yet, why they did NOT purchase from you.
Unfortunately, Google Analytics only tells you half the story: “What is happening on your website?”. It’s not built to answer the other half of the question: “Why are your visitors doing that?”
In fact, most of the customer feedback tools in the market charge exorbitantly high prices, which aren’t affordable to small businesses.
After a lot of thought and consideration, we decided to release a brand-new plugin called UserFeedback, which enables you to understand user intent by collecting real time feedback from them.
With UserFeedback, you can:
Create a demographic survey to fill out your buyer personas
Ask website visitors to leave their phone number for a callback
Run customer satisfaction surveys to see what buyers think about your products
Run product surveys to find out what buyers are actually using your products for
And so much more
What is UserFeedback?
UserFeedback is a free and powerful WordPress plugin that lets you launch in-the-moment surveys to collect quality feedback from your website visitors.
It comes with built-in templates and questions to make creating feedback surveys quick and effortless, including:
Website feedback/experience
Ecommerce store survey
NPS survey
Post purchase review
Product usage survey
Competitive research
And so much more!
Anything you’ve ever dreamed of being able to easily ask your customers, you can ask with UserFeedback.
In combination with a powerful analytics tool like MonsterInsights, website owners can finally see both the “why†and the “what†of their users’ behavior on their WordPress websites.
When you have direct access to your visitors’ wants and needs, you can make changes that will take your website and business to the next level.
My plan is to continuously add more helpful templates and addons to make UserFeedback even more powerful and essential to understanding your website visitors.
Collect Feedback in Minutes, not Hours
UserFeedback makes it super easy to launch a survey in minutes, not hours. Its 20+ survey templates give you a head start, so you don’t always have to start a feedback survey from scratch.
Each of those templates is pre-designed for different user needs. Based on your requirements, choose the right template, make quick changes, and publish it on your website.
For example, the Website Design Feedback template comes with a star-rating question, whereas the NPS Survey template lets your users grade their loyalty on a scale of 1 to 10.
The best part is that you can build and preview your design within the dashboard.
Get Best Results with Laser Targeted Surveys
UserFeedback enables you to display the right surveys at the right time to the right users. Here are some targeting options you can use for the best results.
Logged in status: Choose to show your surveys only to logged in or not logged in users.
Page URL: Show it only on certain pages
Traffic source: Display it based on the traffic source, like organic traffic, PPC ads, social media, and so on.
Device type: Choose which types of devices the survey should appear
Display timing: Choose the right time to show the survey.
Exit intent / scroll targeting: You can show it to users who abandon the site on desktop or show when a user scrolls halfway down the page.
And much more…
Now that you know how UserFeedback works, let’s take a look at how our customers are using UserFeedback to grow their businesses.
1. Focus on What to Prioritize Next
Are you looking to redesign your website? Wondering how to improve your website copy to boost sales and conversions?
One of the best things about UserFeedback is that it lets you collect feedback score on every page of your site. That way, you can quickly find pages that aren’t resonating well with your audience and prioritize those pages while redesigning.
2. Get Feedback to Validate Your Plans
Pushing out new changes on your site can be intimidating. It’s especially true when you change the pricing plan on your website.
With UserFeedback, you can validate your plans with a survey and learn what users think about your latest plans.
3. Boost Profit by Reducing Customer Churn
UserFeedback comes with several targeting options, including exit intent. This targeting option helps you understand why users are leaving by collecting feedback at the exact moment when people churn.
4. Collect a Constant Stream of Great Suggestions
Do you want to encourage users to provide you with suggestions to improve your product?
One of the reasons most people hesitate to provide feedback is that it’s not easy to do so. With an on-site survey, you can make it convenient for them to send you feedback. Plus, you can collect a constant stream of suggestions to improve your product.
5. Fix the Problems Before They Develop
The biggest benefit of collecting feedback is that it helps you quickly identify problems before they develop. That means you can quickly rectify your problems before your customers start complaining about it.
Get Unlimited Everything – Questions, Responses, and Sessions
A big reason why we built UserFeedack is that most feedback tools are just too expensive. They slow down your site and charge you based on the number of responses and sessions …
Let’s take a look at how UserFeedback surveys compare to another feedback tool, Hotjar.
As you can see while the basic plan is free, it only allows you to get responses for up to 35 daily sessions.
On the other hand, UserFeedback lets you ask unlimited questions and get unlimited responses without a daily session limit!
What’s Coming Next for UserFeedback?
UserFeedback is a great tool that helps you uncover more insights about your website visitors that Google Analytics won’t tell you. I’m extremely pleased with the community response so far, as everyone is loving the new features.
We have lots of great features coming, including:
Customizable survey designs so you can fully tweak them to match your website’s colors, fonts, and personality.
Advanced integrations to automatically let you send a special email, add entries to a spreadsheet, and so on.
Additional prebuilt templates to collect feedback for a variety of additional websites.
We’re truly building something special here. If you have ideas on how we can make the plugin more helpful to you, please send us your suggestions.
As always, I want to thank you for your continued support of WPBeginner, and we look forward to continuing to serve you for years to come.
Yours Truly,
Syed Balkhi Founder of WPBeginner
P.S. Want us to acquire or invest in your WordPress business? Learn more about the WPBeginner Growth Fund.
Do you want to optimize your website for search engines?
Ever wished there was any easy way to perform an SEO (search engine optimization) audit to find critical errors on your site WITHOUT the high costs?
If you’re like me and most other smart website owners, then you have at least wished for this solution a couple of times in your WordPress journey.
Today, I’m excited to release a new free tool, WPBeginner SEO Analyzer, which helps you make informed decisions on how to fix SEO errors and grow your organic traffic.
We built this tool because we believe everyone should be able to optimize their site for SEO regardless of their skill set.
What is an SEO Analyzer Tool?
WPBeginner’s SEO Analyzer is a powerful FREE online tool that makes it easy to run an SEO audit of your website, find critical errors, and generate a FREE SEO report with recommendations so you can fix the errors.
It’s completely FREE for all WPBeginner readers … no signup or registration is required.
Most websites fail in SEO because they don’t know what keeps their website from getting high rankings and organic traffic. While there are several advanced SEO analysis tools available on the market, most of them cost a fortune.
And not every website has the budget or resources to hire an expert SEO consultant to detect and fix their SEO errors. At WPBeginner, we want to fix it once and for all.
This is why we decided to build the SEO Analyzer tool and make it free for all WPBeginner readers.
Some of the benefits of our SEO Analyzer are…
Get an analysis of the good, bad, and the ugly part of your website’s SEO
Get instant recommendations and download the complete WordPress SEO analysis report
No signup or installation is required for SEO analysis. It’s absolutely FREE!
How to Use WPBeginner’s SEO Analyzer
First of all, head over to WPBeginner’s SEO Analyzer tool. Next, type in your website URL to detect SEO errors and click Analyze.
Our SEO Analyzer grades your website’s SEO on a scale of 1-100, where 1 is the least, and 100 is the perfect score.
For best results, it’s recommended to aim for a score of 70 or above.
Aside from providing you with an SEO score, it creates a detailed SEO report on what works on your site and what doesn’t. You’ll also get customized recommendations on how to make the right changes to boost your SEO score.
The SEO Analyzer gives you suggestions based on 4 primary SEO factors as follows:
Basic SEO: It analyzes if your website is following basic SEO practices, like using an SEO title, meta tag, if the site is optimized for any keywords, and so on.
Advanced SEO: Get custom-tailored advanced SEO recommendations for your site.
Site performance: It helps you monitor page loading time and provides suggestions to improve it.
Site security: It helps you ensure your website never gets blacklisted by Google and other search engines.
Improve Search Rankings and Organic Traffic
For your best interest, after doing an SEO audit, you’ll need to follow the recommendations provided by our SEO checkup tool.
Here are a few suggestions to fix your critical SEO errors:
Make sure your website is visible to search engines
Do you want to quickly generate content ideas for your blog?
Ever wished there was any easy way to create a year’s worth of content ideas without having to spend hours if not days for researching and mind mapping?
If you’re like me and most other smart bloggers, then you have at least wished for this solution a couple of times in your WordPress journey.
Today, I’m excited to release a free WPBeginner tool, Blog Post Idea Generator, which helps you come up with a year worth of content ideas in a second.
We built this tool because we believe content ideas are the backbone of a blog, and every blogger should be able to create tons of ideas quickly and easily.
It’s completely FREE for all WPBeginner readers… no signup or registration is required.
Without entering your email address, you can generate up to 29 ideas for the topic or noun you enter. If you want an extensive list of 250 blog post ideas, you can enter your email address and download the list right away.
One of the biggest reasons why most WordPress blogs fail is because they don’t brainstorm blog post ideas and plan their editorial calendar ahead of time.
Unfortunately, planning blog post ideas could be tedious and time-consuming. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Backed by data, our free tool analyzes the blog topic or noun you enter and provides you with content ideas that are proven to attract your target audience.
Some of the benefits of our blog post generator are…
Get loads of actionable blog post name ideas for FREE without hiring a content marketer
Download or export the ideas in a sheet for further analysis
Save time and money on topic research
How to Use WPBeginner’s Blog Post Idea Generator
The tool will instantly generate up to 29 post ideas, which you can copy individually and add to your editorial calendar. If you provide your email address, then you can get 250+ additional ideas and download the sheet instantly.
Once you have a list of potential ideas, you can fix a publishing schedule for your blog and start creating stunning blog posts that attract your audience.
#1 Reason Why Most Blogs Fails and How to Fix It
Most beginner bloggers fail because they seek instant gratification from blogging. As soon as they publish a blog post, they want readers to come in, post a comment, share it on social media, and so on.
But what they fail to realize is that blogging is a marathon, not a sprint. To win the blogging marathon, the first thing you’ll need to do is to get your content ideas ready… not just a week ahead, but a year ahead or at least a month ahead.
When post ideas aren’t prepared ahead of time, most beginners tend to publish mediocre content that fails to create an impact. This eventually hurts their motivation and causes them to stop publishing.
WPBeginner’s Blog Post Idea Generator gives you a head start on brainstorming content ideas. Once you generate the ideas, you can refine them and add them to your content calendar.
Use Headline Analyzer to Refine Your Ideas
Now you know how to generate content ideas and add them to your publishing calendar.
After preparing content ideas, you can also use the headline analyzer to make sure the post headlines are click-worthy before publishing the blog posts.
A headline analyzer analyzes your final post headline, grades it on a scale of 1-100, and offers suggestions to improve it.
You can then follow those recommendations and re-analyze your title to see if it improves your score. Then you can repeat the process until you get a great score. The general rule of thumb is to aim for a score of 70+.
Both of these plugins give you access to the headline analyzer right inside the WordPress post editor.
Alternatively, you can use our online headline analyzer tool, which offers similar headline analysis and can be accessed for free without installing a plugin or signing up for a newsletter.
What’s Coming Next?
Our blog post generator is a great tool to help step up your content strategy game.
We’ll continue to deliver more powerful tools for small businesses, so they can grow and compete with the big guys.
We have an exciting roadmap ahead of us, and in the coming weeks, hopefully, we’ll deliver more free tools at your disposal.
Here are a few more business tools that you can use RIGHT NOW.
Our goal is to continue to build best-in-class tools to help you level the playing field.
If you have ideas on how we can make WPBeginner’s Blog Post Idea Generator or other tools more helpful for you, then share your thoughts in the comments.
As always, I want to thank you for your continued support of WPBeginner, and we look forward to continue serving you for years to come.
Do you want to write captivating headlines that boost traffic?
Have you ever wished there was an EASY tool that helps everyone write great headlines regardless of their skill set or having to hire an elite copywriter?
If you’re like me and most other smart website owners, then you have at least wished for this solution a couple of times in your WordPress journey.
Today, I’m excited to release a free WPBeginner tool, Headline Analyzer, which enables you to write irresistible headlines that your users can’t help but click.
We built this tool because we believe headlines are the single most important factor that can make or break your content.
With our tool, we want to empower all bloggers and website owners to write great headlines so they can compete with the big guys and drive more traffic.
And it is a FREE tool… no signup or registration is required!
One of the reasons most people fail to make their headlines compelling is that there is no clear-cut way to write one. This is why I decided to build a headline analyzer at WPBeginner.
Backed by data, our free tool reviews your headlines and provides suggestions to help you earn the highest number of click-throughs.
To analyze your title, the headline checker considers a few different factors, including word balance, power words, headline sentiment, headline type, word count, and more.
Some of the benefits of our title analyzer include…
It analyzes your headline and grades it on a scale of 1-100
You can refine your title until you get a great score
Why Writing Great Headlines is Important?
Did you know 4 out 5 people will NEVER click through to read your articles?
That means even if your site gets on the first page of Google for relevant keywords, only a minority of your target audience will visit your website.
Fortunately, there is an easy way to improve your chances of driving more visitors to your site… and that is by writing a click-worthy headline.
A click-worthy headline can mean the difference between the search results your users will notice and click on Google – and the search results they’ll skip right over.
With WPBeginner’s Headline Analyzer, it takes less than 2 minutes to write a perfect title for your content… and you don’t have to be an SEO or copywriting guru to do so.
Next, type in your headline in the search bar and click Analyze.
Backed by data, our tool analyzes your headline, grades it on a scale of 1-100, and offers suggestions to improve it.
You can then follow those recommendations and re-analyze your title to see if it improves your score. Then you can repeat the process until you get a great score. The general rule of thumb is to aim for a score of 70+.
To get the best results from the analyzer, follow the below recommended practices.
Always Come Up with Multiple Headline Ideas
It is recommended to come up with around 3 to 5 headlines for your content. When you brainstorm multiple headline ideas, you’re more likely to think out of the box, which in turn helps you create great headlines.
After the analysis, you can pick the one that has a better score and then refine it until it gets a better score.
Choose the Optimal Length for Your Titles
Choosing the optimal length for your titles is important. If it is too lengthy, it might get cut off from Google Search results, email inbox, social media feeds, and so on.
Generally speaking, too short headlines fail to incite curiosity, leading to a drop in click-throughs.
Most WordPress SEO plugins and tools recommend keeping the number of characters under 60 to ensure the title fits in the search snippet and other marketing channels.
Improve Your Workflow with Headline Analyzer
Want to get the headline analyzer inside the WordPress post editor?
