Gain Greater User Insight with Hotjar’s Incoming Feedback​

It doesn’t matter how great a designer you are, without feedback from your visitors, anything you design will only ever be an educated guess. Great feedback enables you to design real solutions to actual problems in an iterative fashion.

It goes without saying that the better your feedback, the better the design that results from it. That’s why over 200,000 companies, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, use Hotjar to grab feedback from users.

Hotjar’s latest innovation is Incoming Feedback. Incoming Feedback delivers instant visual feedback for your website, or app; it helps you develop a better user experience, by revealing what your users love, and hate.

Incoming Feedback sits like a tab at the edge of your screen. You can customise the position, color, flow, and message of the widget in your Hotjar settings. When a user clicks to submit feedback a pop-up appears allowing them to choose from five options: hate, dislike, neutral, like, and love. Once the user has picked an option, they can then choose to add a comment about their experience.

One of the best features is that when a user is submitting feedback, they can use the optional area selection tool to highlight an element on your page; you’ll know exactly what content they’re loving or hating.

Incoming Feedback allows your visitors to send you feedback in just 2 clicks, with the optional screen shot for context. The ease of sharing their feelings significantly increases the chance of users doing so—yes, they could email you, but most disgruntled users would rather bad mouth you on social media—incoming feedback means that not only will the feedback get to you, but only you will get it.

For greater insights, you can combine Incoming Feedback with Hotjar Session Recordings, or Hotjar Polls so you can understand user feedback in the context of their personal journeys. Performance tracking lets you analyse your progress over time, celebrate your victories, and uncover where you have room for improvement. Tracking progress across your entire site helps you monitor your whole output, and identify opportunities for growth.

So far, over 2.4 million people have shared feedback via Incoming Feedback with household names from Nintendo, to Microsoft, to Intuit. You can join them by signing up for a Hotjar account today.

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8 Free WordPress Code Generators, Tools, and Webapps

As WordPress pushes over 25% of the web it’s easily the most popular CMS to date. And that means more developers are building new websites & webapps on the WP ecosystem.

To cut down on dev time you can build on the work of others by reusing code snippets, most of which come from free code generators online. But there are so many other tools built around WordPress that can also help you scale a new WP website.

Below are my personal favorites and I hope there’s something in this list that you haven’t seen before.

1. INCLUDEWP

Developers often create their own WordPress theme frameworks to save time on larger projects. And sometimes devs even release their frameworks on the web for others to use.

IncludeWP curates all these free WP frameworks in one place so you have easy access to the best templates for plugin and theme development.

Everything on this site is totally free and open source each with a GitHub page. You can sort the list by most stars or forks on GitHub, or sort alphabetically if you’re looking for something specific.

But if you just wanna browse through WP frameworks this site is the best to see what’s out there.

2. WP HASTY

I recently stumbled onto WP Hasty and have to say it’s one of the easiest code generators to use.

It’s designed solely for WordPress and offers different generators for different snippets. Currently it has 8 different code generators for things like shortcodes, custom post types, taxonomies and even WP_Query() loops.

When you click on any generator you’re taken to a new page with a GUI for editing the options. You can input whatever features you want and the code generator automagically creates the snippet for you.

WP Hasty is one of the most comprehensive generators you’ll find and it lets you customize every possible option with an easy-to-use interface.

3. ADDENDIO

Testing a WordPress plugin isn’t always easy. You’ll need to either run it on a live website, or setup a local demo site and test it there.

But with Addendio you can test free WordPress plugins right from your browser. This webapp lets you search through 60,000 plugins all hosted in the WordPress plugins directory.

From there you can run a free sandbox for testing the plugin right on the Addendio website. This gives you access to a temporary WordPress install without any setup work.

Just note this does require an email address to launch the demo but it’s one of the fastest ways to play with any plugin in just a few clicks.

4. WHAT WP THEME IS THAT?

Trying to figure out which theme your favorite blog is using? Check out What WP Theme Is That designed for this exact purpose.

It actually pulls extra data on plugins too so you can spy on both themes and plugins.

Many sites run their own custom themes and in this case you’ll get a message with the theme’s folder name stating it’s not using any recognizable free or premium theme. Otherwise you’ll see a full theme preview thumbnail along with a link on where to get it.

Same goes for plugins so if you’re trying to break down a WP blog’s setup this tool is quite handy.

By  Jake Rocheleau Cousins - Orginal Post: https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2017/10/8-free-wordpress-code-generators-tools-and-webapps/

By  Jake Rocheleau Cousins - Orginal Post: https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2017/10/8-free-wordpress-code-generators-tools-and-webapps/

5. VERSIONPRESS

If you develop a lot of projects then version control is an invaluable tool. Most developers use Git but the concept of version control is useful regardless of software choice.

The free VersionPress plugin is a great example. It’s designed specifically for WordPress websites and while it runs on Git, it still operates as a separate platform in WordPress.

You can manage all changes to your WordPress website and commit these changes to individual “snapshots” for archiving. It makes development so much easier because you can quickly roll back to earlier versions of your site without needing to back up everything.

Getting this plugin setup & working properly may take some time if you’re new to version control. But it’s one of the best tools for managing a complex WordPress project and fixing simple coding errors.

6. GENERATEWP

Here’s one other code generator that I’m quite fond of alongside WP Hasty.

The GenerateWP site has been around for years and they’re constantly adding new features. It does offer a little more than WP Hasty so you’ll find generators for admin functions, custom query functions, and even core edits like registering hooks or editing your wp-config.php file.

There’s so much you can do with this site and it offers a nice mixture of code generators along with free code snippets.

Unfortunately some of the generators are premium-only which gives this a big disadvantage to WP Hasty. But you can still use a total of ~25 free generators without paying a penny or even creating an account.

Worth bookmarking if you’ll use it but be on the lookout for other generators too.

7. ADMIN ACCOUNT GENERATOR

This is a real simple tool that many devs may not use often, but when it’s needed it certainly helps.

Exygy’s Admin Account Generator automates the SQL code necessary for overwriting the main admin account. There is no simple way to do this from WordPress and you can’t delete the main admin without running SQL code, so the easiest thing to do is overwrite those settings.

With this tool you just input the username/password info you want to use along with your database name and whatever new admin email/display name you want.

It’ll automate the final query so you can just copy/paste and run it over your database for a brand new admin account.

8. YOU MIGHT NOT NEED THAT WP PLUGIN

One of the best things about WordPress is the massive plugin library with so many cool add-ons at the click of a button.

Yet if you run too many plugins it can slow down your admin panel or even your website. That’s why I’m a big fan of this free site that lists all the features you can add without using a plugin.

Things like custom post types and related posts all have their own plugins and many non-dev users prefer those options. But this site offers code snippets that you can copy/paste into your functions.php file to get the same effect.

If you’re trying to slim down your plugin use, this site is a goldmine of resources.

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Why Should Use A Landing Page Instead Of Your Homepage

 

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Why Should Use A Landing Page Instead Of Your Homepage

What is a Landing Page?

First of all in the purest sense, a landing page is any single web page that a visitor can arrive at or “land” on. It’s more common to refer to a landing page as being a standalone web page distinct from your main website that has been designed for a single focused objective to promote.

This means that your landing page should have no global navigation to tie it to your primary website. The main reason for this is to limit the options available to your visitors, helping to guide them toward your aimed conversion goal.

Types of Landing Pages

There are two basic types of landing page, Click Through and Lead Generation (also referred to as Lead Gen or Lead Capture pages).

Click Through Landing Pages:

Click through landing pages have the goal of reassure the visitor to click through to another page. Typically used in ecommerce funnels, they can be used to describe a product or offer in sufficient detail so as to “warm up” a visitor to the point where they are closer to making a purchasing decision.

Lead Generation Landing Pages:

Lead generation landing pages are used to capture user data, such as a name and email address. The sole purpose of the page is to collect information that will allow you to market to and connect with the prospect at a subsequent time. As such, a lead capture page will contain a form along with a description of what you’ll get in return for submitting your personal data.

If you’re wondering why use a Landing Page instead of your website, read on. We've got the answer for you.

If you are:

1. Running a PPC ad campaign
2. Promoting a product, eBook, email subscription through social media and SEO
3. Advertising on radio, television and print
4. Writing guest posts on 3rd party blogs or magazines

You need to use a page instead of junk people to your website.

What you’ll notice about this list is that each item has a specific goal, to get people to take specific actions: to buy your product, subscribe to your in-house mailing list, download an eBook, case study or white paper, or view a video and many more.

Design a cheap landing page for your website. If you’re doing any of the above, the worst thing you can do is send people to your home page. You need a focused landing page dedicated to the particular action you want people to take. In fact, you need several.

Let me explain.

Focus on Conversion

Are you looking to turn more website visits into conversions? Why it's important to first map out each process an internet user goes through on your site, and then use analytics to find out if it's meeting its goals. You can analyze the landing page by analyzing tools to focus conversions.  So your landing page can derive visitor to your site and convert into leads.

You Can Test a Landing Page

You can test a landing page for your website instead of home page. The landing page will be safe your home page or website from junk peoples. So design a cheap landing page and promote for the purpose of  PPC campaign or SEO.

Remove scattering

Remove the scattering from your website. A fresh and cheap landing page will help you to distraction from main website and that will be safe from dumping peoples.  Over packing your schedule may make you more popular, but it will not get you to your goals every times. So be careful about this matter.

Create Different Versions for Different Ads

Sometimes you may need different types of landing pages due to operate different versions for different ads. In addition you can get more visitors to your site from different links of landing pages. Also create different sales packages for each of the landing a page it may help you to sells more.

Create Different Versions for Organic Search

Nowadays has different types of search engine and they have different types of search strategy. When you campaign your website with the different search engine you have to track those data and analysis the search result. Therefore you need landing pages for each version for organic search engines.

As a result of having a landing page will make more visitors to your website and generate sells.

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