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Core Web Vitals: How FooGallery Can Help Improve Your Score

June 1, 2021 by FooPlugins

Google has announced an update coming in mid-June 2021, which will factor in Core Web Vitals among other page experience signals. This is in keeping with Google’s aim to give users a good online experience and provide them with helpful search results. But what does all of this mean for you? To help you understand this update a bit better, we decided to take a more detailed look at page experience signals, how this will affect you, and what action you need to take. We also take a look at the latest FooGallery update and how it can help you … Read more…

[Update] FooGallery V2: How The Latest Update Will Improve Performance

April 14, 2021 by FooPlugins

FooGallery version 2 update to improve performance

FooGallery just got better! FooGallery Version 2 has just been released and includes major improvements for performance. In fact, we’re confident that FooGallery is now the best gallery for optimized performance and improved ranking. Below, we take a look at some of the changes we have made and how this affects your galleries’ performance. FooGallery Update The majority of the changes we made were done to improve the plugin’s performance scores in Lighthouse. Lighthouse is Google’s performance metrics suite, used to assign a score to a page. These performance scores form part of the overall score for your site, which … Read more…

How To Create Effective Countdown Notification Bars

February 9, 2021 by FooPlugins

What’s the average time spent on one of your pages? How long is the average session? There’s a good chance that neither of these numbers are very high. In fact, the average time spent on a page could be as little as 15 seconds. This doesn’t give you a lot of time to make an impression or drive new business. A well-placed notification bar, however, can make all the difference. Using a notice bar can help get your user’s attention, encourage interaction, generate leads, and convert users into customers. So we’ve put together a detailed guide on how to set … Read more…

Jan 2021 FooBar Update: Scheduling, Effects And More

January 18, 2021January 8, 2021 by FooPlugins

Latest FooBar Update Improves On User Experience

We’ve recently released an update to FooBar (free and Pro), geared towards improving user experience. The FooBar update will also make it easier for you to get the most out of your notification bars. Below we take a look at what’s new in FooBar: Realtime Previews It can be frustrating, not to mention a waste of time, if you have to reload your notification bar every time you make a change. This is why we’ve built in realtime previews when editing notification bars in admin. Any time you make a change to your content or color-scheme, your preview bar will … Read more…

Introducing Our Awesome Notification Bar: FooBar PRO

January 18, 2021November 25, 2020 by FooPlugins

FooBar PRO is here! Our premium notification bar comes with new templates, increased customization, and more position and visibility settings. Below, we take a look at some of these new features, how you can use FooBar PRO to boost your business, and some FAQ’s. New Features for FooBar PRO To begin with, we’ve included a few new bar types in our premium plugin. Countdown Bar This notification bar is a great option for driving sales through FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). As the bar counts down, visitors begin to worry that they will miss out on your promotion or special … Read more…

5 Best Image Optimization Plugins [2020 List]

November 10, 2020October 29, 2020 by FooPlugins

If you’re serious about engaging your audience, then you’ll know that images are an essential element on your WordPress website. But using images can be detrimental to your page speed. One of the best ways to avoid this trap is to use an image optimization plugin. Large images can take a long time to load, so if you’re using a lot of images, or very high-quality images, your load time can be compromised. Image optimization means you can still use the images you want to use, and you can still create beautiful image galleries, without it having a significant impact … Read more…

FooBox Just Got Better [FooBox Update]

June 28, 2021October 28, 2020 by FooPlugins

FooBox has been updated to v2.7.15 and it’s looking better than ever! The new and improved FooBox is all about faster speed and a better user experience. What’s New? FooBox is Faster We’ve replaced the fonts in FooBox with SVG images. This has been built into the latest version of FooBox free and Pro, so you don’t need to do anything or change any settings. But what it does mean is that FooBox will be faster, which can help improve your site speed, and result in better SEO. We’ve also updated the Getting Started page in FooBox Free. You now … Read more…

Deep Linking and How To Use It With FooGallery and FooBox

December 23, 2020September 3, 2020 by FooPlugins

Deep Linking refers to a URL that links directly to an item on a page, or to a page in a specific state. To explain this in more detail, a URL that is using deep linking will remember the state of a page, even when something like a lightbox has been opened on it. For example, if you open a form in FooBox PRO (when deeplinking is enabled), the URL will change. If you then copy and share this link, and someone clicks on it, it will open a page with the form opened in FooBox. FooGallery PRO similarly allows … Read more…