ActiveTrail – Contact Form 7 vs Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

Connect your Contact Form 7 (CF7) forms to your ActiveTrail account and turn website visitors into engaged subscribers. ActiveTrail is a multichannel marketing automation platform trusted by more than 10,000 businesses worldwide. It brings email, SMS, WhatsApp, and push notifications together with a visual automation builder, so you can create a single journey that reaches each contact on the right channel at the right time. This official integration links the CF7 forms on your website, online store, or blog directly to your ActiveTrail account. Every submission can create a new contact, update an existing one, and add subscribers to the right lists and groups automatically, ready for your campaigns and automations. Setup takes just a few minutes: add your ActiveTrail API token to a form, map your form fields to your ActiveTrail contact fields, and you are ready to start collecting subscribers. Compliance ActiveTrail is fully GDPR compliant, and all data is stored on our EU-based servers. ActiveTrail is also ISO 27001 certified for information security. Terms and Conditions You can find ActiveTrail’s Terms & Conditions here: https://www.activetrail.com/terms-and-conditions/ Why use the ActiveTrail – Contact Form 7 plugin? Quick and simple to set up, with a fast installation. Enjoy all the benefits and capabilities of the popular Contact Form 7. A secure, user-friendly integration that will not slow down your website. What can you do with the CF7 to ActiveTrail plugin? Connect the CF7 signup forms on your website and blog to your ActiveTrail account. Automatically add new subscribers to your contact lists and groups. Reach your subscribers across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and push notifications. Send newsletters, email campaigns, autoresponders, and surveys. Design and run multichannel marketing automations from a single visual builder. Integrate Contact Form 7 with ActiveTrail in three easy steps Add the ActiveTrail panel to your CF7 forms. Collect subscribers. Use ActiveTrail to send them beautiful, multichannel campaigns. Start your free 30-day ActiveTrail trial – no credit card required Visit the ActiveTrail website What You Can Do With ActiveTrail Reach your audience on email, SMS, WhatsApp, and mobile push, all from one platform. Manage your contact lists and segment your contacts into auto-updating groups. Personalize your emails and messages for targeted, results-driven campaigns that increase engagement. Build multichannel automation flows and funnels with a drag-and-drop visual builder, with no coding required. Choose from 850+ professional, mobile-responsive email templates, and improve results with built-in A/B testing. Create landing pages, signup forms, popups, and surveys to capture and convert leads. Recover abandoned carts, recommend products, and re-engage customers with e-commerce automations. Reach the inbox with strong deliverability, backed by SPF, DKIM, and automatic bounce management. Contact us: Found a bug, or have a suggestion for improving our WordPress integration? We would love to hear from you at [email protected]. Visit ActiveTrail.

Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality. Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work. Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer. Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest. Compress images without losing quality Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. Smush is an easy-to-use image optimizer which let’s you compress images using both lossless and lossy compression, giving you the best balance of quality and performance without extra work. You can also compress images outside the media library using Directory Smush, making it easy to optimize images stored in theme folders, plugins, or other directories on your server. Lazy load images for faster pages Enable image lazy load across your site so images load only when needed. This image optimizer improves initial page speed and creates a smoother experience for visitors without extra configuration. Serve WebP and AVIF images automatically (PRO) Convert images to WebP and AVIF and serve them automatically to supported browsers. Smush helps you optimize images using next-gen formats to reduce file size and improve load times across your WordPress site. Deliver images faster with an Image CDN (PRO) Serve images through a global image CDN to reduce latency and improve load times for visitors around the world. 119 global CDN servers Up to 500 GB of bandwidth Faster image delivery based on visitor location Improved performance for image-heavy and high-traffic sites Automatically resize and fix image dimensions (PRO) Eliminate common PageSpeed warnings and improve layout stability with automatic image sizing. Smush dynamically resizes images to perfectly fit their containers, regardless of original size, helping fix the “Properly size images” warning in Google PageSpeed Insights. It also automatically adds missing width and height attributes to your images, improving rendering speed and reducing layout shifts. This helps you meet the “Ensure images have explicit width and height” recommendation without any manual work. Optimize your entire site, automatically Smush works across your whole site as a powerful image optimizer to optimize images as you upload them and maintain performance over time without manual work. Optimize images automatically on upload Compress images in bulk or individually Works with your existing media library No need to re-upload images Enable image lazy load across your site Convert images to WebP and AVIF Deliver images with an integrated image CDN Automatically resize and serve correctly sized images Optimize images outside the media library with Directory Smush Built for performance Smush improves page speed and overall performance by reducing image weight and improving how images are delivered. Reduce page load times Improve user experience Better performance for image-heavy pages Supports image lazy load and preload images (PRO) for faster perceived performance Works with your existing setup Smush is built to work with your current WordPress setup, including popular themes, page builders, and plugins. Compatible with Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery, and more Works with WooCommerce stores No need to change your workflow Easy to enable and configure Designed to be simple You don’t need to be a performance expert to optimize images with Smush image optimizer. Works out of the box Simple settings when you need them No technical knowledge required Safe to use on any site Why choose Smush? There are plenty of image optimization plugins, but Smush focuses on making it easy to optimize images, compress images, and improve performance without complexity. As a leading WordPress image optimizer, Smush gives you powerful optimization tools without the technical hassle. Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users Built specifically for WordPress Regular updates and improvements Backed by the WPMU DEV team Get started in minutes Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images. About Us WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here: https://wpmudev.com/ Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource: WPMU DEV Blog Hey, one more thing… we hope you enjoy our free offerings as much as we’ve loved making them for you! Contact and Credits Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (dialect.ca, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.