Beaver Builder 2.1 “Redridge” – Inline editing, Gutenberg support, and more
Beaver Builder 2.1 “Redridge” is live! You can download a test copy from your account page and start using it on your sites today. At the end of 2017, we released Beaver Builder 2.0 which featured a visual refresh and an extensive overhaul of Page Builder’s user experience. One of our original mission statements and philosophies for Beaver…
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 MoreHow to Create a Staff Directory on WordPress – Your First Beaver Themer Project
One of my favorite web design podcasts is the ShopTalk show. A question that often comes up is, “What’s the best way to learn about web design?” The answer is always to pick a subject you’re interested and start building something. There’s no substitute for hands-on learning. In this post, Hashim walks through the process…
Read MoreAsk Us Anything (AMA) — An Update Post
Hey all! We’ve got an exciting update on tap today. A few weeks ago, Billy, Justin, and I went out to Austin, TX to visit with Brent. While we were there, we tried a little experiment. We made a Facebook post asking for folks to send us questions, then we set up a video camera…
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 More48in48 Case Study: Building 48 Websites for Nonprofits in 48 Hours
Since we launched Beaver Builder almost 4 years ago, it’s opened up a world of new relationships and opportunities. I can honestly say it’s been one of the wildest journeys of my life. It might sound cliche, but I genuinely love when we’re able to leverage our business and our software to do something good; to…
Read MoreA Good, Old-Fashioned Update Post
Hey there. I hope everyone’s doing well. I mentioned a few weeks back that we’re trying out a new format for the blog in 2018. Instead of doing an update post every month, we wanted to publish content more often and post updates when we actually have some news. We’re also shifting gears a bit…
Read MoreBeaver Themer 1.1 brings EDD and Events Calendar Integrations
Beaver Themer 1.1 is live and available to download on your account page. We’ll be releasing an automatic update over the next few days, so keep an eye peeled for that in your WordPress admin dashboards. After releasing Beaver Themer in May, we’ve been thrilled to see so many of you using Themer to build headers, footers,…
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