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6 Free Ways to Add a Responsive Slideshow for WordPress
Tried adding a slideshow for WordPress lately? With as common a thing as this is, you’d think it’d be super simple to find a great slideshow plugin. Working on a site lately that needed one though, it became pretty obvious …
From Us to You, Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
It’s hard to believe the end of 2018 is almost upon us, and Christmas is practically here! It’s been a pretty fantastic year for us, and that’s 100% because we have one of the most amazing groups of users in …
How to Create a Mailjet Subscribe Form in WordPress
Struggling to connect WordPress with Mailjet? Learn to easily create a Mailjet subscribe form in WordPress right here! Mailjet is a cutting edge and hugely popular email marketing solution used by more than 100,000 companies around the globe. Unfortunately, their official …
WP Mayor: Your Encyclopedia to WordPress
Sometimes trying to learn WordPress can feel like navigating an ocean without a map. There are an abundance of hosting companies, themes to sift through, features to test, plugins to explore. All of this gets even more complicated when you …
Gutenberg/ WP 5.0 launches today. Here’s what you need to know.
Tempted to hit the update button? You might want to wait. WordPress 5.0, including the new Gutenberg post editor experience, is scheduled to launch today at noon EST per the folks at WordPress.org. Originally projected to release in early-mid 2018, …
5 of the Best WordPress Backup Plugins
It is a horrible feeling when you are working on updating your site, you reload your home page, and you see that your entire site has crashed. Things as small as updating/installing a plugin or tweaking your theme can sometimes …
Ninja News November: to all of you, Thanks!
Goodbye, November! Another month is behind us, and almost the year. We hope you had a fantastic turkey day for all of those among you that celebrate the US Thanksgiving holiday, and look forward to a festive end of the …
Getting to Know You: Content-Artist Ninja Jon
“My OCD took over and the scope creep was real.” In this meet the team spotlight, the interviewer becomes the interviewee! We take Jon, resident artist & Navy veteran, flip the script, and question the one so often on the …
5 WordPress Security Plugins to Keep You Safe
When it comes to your WordPress security, it is almost impossible to say that you have enough. After all, on average around 30,000 websites are hacked in someway a day. Whether it’s your personal information, important files, products, or even …
How to Turn a Teenager and a Used Limo into a Thriving Business
How do you go from driving an old limo to doing graphic design work for Ferrari & other international clients? Like this! Buy a used limo, look for people to drive around. Realize you need to make your limo look …
Want to Add Custom CSS to WordPress Forms? (a Beginner’s Guide)
CSS can be tricky, but with a little practice and a few tips and tricks, you can make big adjustments to the way your forms look! Found the perfect theme for your website, but it leaves your forms looking off? …
Ninja News: Happy Halloween!
October is almost at its end, fall is upon us, and of course everything everywhere has gotten a liberal dose of pumpkin flavoring. Candles, hand soap, your latte, pumpkin everything. We have refrained from adding pumpkin spice to this month’s …
Music to Our Ears: Bringing the Arts to WordPress
When magic meets music meets web design, WordPress gets a little more amazing for everyone. Web development, jazz piano, and table magic aren’t subjects that get brought up together very often on tech blogs. Or anywhere, for that matter. Mix …
Getting to Know You: Content Ninja Quay
“I wanted to be named Zaxxon when I was very-very little…” In this meet the team spotlight, we’ll sit down with Ninja Forms’ resident Editor-in-chief, Quay. Reserved, inquisitive, peaceful, and generally laid-back, our interviewer does the Lord’s work in pulling …
Don’t Miss This Simple Trick for Select Fields!
Ever needed a checkbox or radio list on your form to display a default placeholder option? You might have tried simply ticking the ✓ icon next to the list option you want as select field default placeholder. Works, right? Problem solved. …
Want to Accept Donations with WordPress? You Have Plenty of Options!
✨ November 13, 2023 – The PayPal Checkout Add-on is now available! Do you need a way to start accepting donations using your WordPress website? Whether you’re a registered nonprofit, organizing a fundraiser, raising money for a cause, or exchanging goods or …