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Contact Form 7 is an WordPress plugin which can manage multiple contact forms. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering.

The Apache HTTP Server is free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.

YouTube is a free video sharing website that allows users to watch, share, like, comment, and upload videos. It was founded in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. YouTube has become a platform for users to watch and share videos, as well as a platform for users to create and upload their own original content. It provides a wide range of categories, from entertainment and music to news, tutorials, and more. YouTube also has a large community of viewers, with more than 2 billion users logging in every month. YouTube is also available in more than 80 languages and is now available in more than 100 countries.

Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains CSS- and JavaScript-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for web development. PHP code may be executed with a command line interface (CLI), embedded into HTML code, or used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Revslider is a slider plugin for Wordpress.

Popper is a positioning engine, its purpose is to calculate the position of an element to make it possible to position it near a given reference element.

Elementor Website Builder allows WordPress users to create and edit websites by employing the drag and drop technique, with a built-in responsive mode.

Underscore.js is a JavaScript library which provides utility functions for common programming tasks. It is comparable to features provided by Prototype.js and the Ruby language, but opts for a functional programming design instead of extending object prototypes.

jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License.

jQuery Migrate is a javascript library that allows you to preserve the compatibility of your jQuery code developed for versions of jQuery older than 1.9. It basically restores deprecated features and behaviours so that older code will still run properly on the current jQuery version and later.

jQuery UI is a collection of GUI widgets, animated visual effects, and themes implemented with jQuery, Cascading Style Sheets, and HTML.

core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.

Backbone.js is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library.

GSAP is an animation library that allows you to create animations with JavaScript.

Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and LESS. It was made for use with Twitter Bootstrap.

Google's Font API provides website developers a means by which they may quickly add custom fonts to their website.

Ionicons is an open-source icon set crafted for web, iOS, Android, and desktop apps.

MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) based on Structured Query Language (SQL). It is one of the most popular RDBMSs and is used to store, organize, and retrieve data for a wide variety of applications. MySQL is used by many web-based applications, including WordPress, Drupal, and other content management systems. It is also used in many enterprise applications, such as banking, shopping, and e-commerce systems. MySQL is easy to use and can be quickly set up and configured on most operating systems. It is highly secure and supports a wide range of features that make it a robust and reliable database solution.

WordPress is a content management system based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores.

Fastly is a content delivery network (CDN) and edge cloud platform that offers a range of services to help businesses with their web performance and security needs. From high-speed content delivery to web application firewalls, Fastly has a range of features designed to help businesses improve site performance and protect their data. Fastly’s technology helps businesses reduce latency, improve scalability and reliability, and enable secure and compliant operations. Fastly also offers a range of analytics tools to help businesses understand how their sites are performing and identify opportunities for improvement. With a global network of servers and data centers, Fastly provides businesses with the tools they need to deliver a great user experience.

Varnish is an open-source web application accelerator also known as a HTTP cache or reverse proxy. It is designed to speed up websites and reduce the load on web servers by caching frequently accessed web pages and serving them directly to users without having to generate them dynamically each time they are requested. Varnish is typically used in front of web servers such as Apache or Nginx, and it can be configured to cache content based on various criteria such as URL, HTTP headers, cookies, and more. It also supports dynamic content and can be used to implement load balancing, content filtering, and other advanced features. Varnish is known for its high performance and scalability, and it is widely used by websites with high traffic volumes such as news sites, social media platforms, and e-commerce sites. It is also used by many content delivery networks (CDNs) to improve the speed and efficiency of content delivery.