Colin Newcomer
Colin Newcomer is a WordPress power user who has been writing about WordPress for over seven years and using the WordPress software since all the way back in 2006. He also has hands-on experience with SEO, content marketing, affiliate marketing, and other digital marketing areas.
How to Spend Money to Make Money With Your Website (And Why)
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Do you really need to spend money to make money? If you’ve ever tried to make money, someone has probably told you that you need to spend money first. But we’re not talking about brick and mortar businesses in this post – so is this adage still true if you want to make money online with your own website? I mean, there are free web hosts, free SEO tools, and lots of other “free” things that can help you grow your business.
(read more)How to Move a Website to a New Host (Without Downtime or Issues)
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Trying to figure out how to move a website to a new host without breaking anything, causing downtime or any other issues that could hurt your Google rankings? As with any move, moving your site to a new host can feel a little daunting, especially if you haven’t done it before. However, it doesn’t have to be, and with the tutorial that we’ll share in this post, you should be able to move virtually any website to a new host.
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How to Use GTmetrix Speed Test Tool + Improve Your GTmetrix PageSpeed Score on WordPress
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If you want to improve your WordPress site’s performance, you need to know where you’re at right now. That’s what the GTmetrix speed test tool helps you with. With GTmetrix, you plug in your site’s URL and GTmetrix spits back your current performance metrics, along with scores, recommendations, and analysis tools to help you optimize your site’s performance.
(read more)10 Largest Web Hosting Companies on the Market (Based on Data From 4 Independent Sources)
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Sometimes it pays to go with the wisdom of the crowds – so when it comes to web hosting, which are the largest web hosting companies in existence?
(read more)5 Best Website Security Check Tools – Use All of Them for Free
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Looking for the best website security check tool? Want to make sure that your website is safe and doesn’t suffer from any potential vulnerabilities that might cause issues in the future? You’re in the right place.
(read more)On Page SEO Techniques for WordPress: 15+ Do’s and Don’ts You Must Know
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On page SEO techniques … I think this is the part where I tell you that “content is king” and if you create “high-quality content,” Google is going to love you and magically rocket your site to the top of the rankings without any additional effort on your part. Unfortunately, in the real world, creating great content alone isn’t a ticket to the top of the SERPs – you also need to optimize that content using on page SEO techniques that you’re going to learn in this post.
(read more)Sucuri vs Wordfence vs MalCare: What’s the Best WordPress Security Plugin?
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Trying to decide between Sucuri vs Wordfence vs MalCare? These three are some of the most popular solutions for improving your WordPress site’s security. But while all are focused on making your site more secure, they approach WordPress security in slightly different ways.
(read more)Best Password Manager: 1Password vs LastPass vs Dashlane vs Bitwarden
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Looking for the best password manager to keep your login credentials safe? If you’re reading this post, you probably don’t need me to tell you that it’s a scary world out there when it comes to digital security. In fact, if you use the same password on multiple sites, it’s probably been leaked already, putting you at digital risk.
(read more)Will Gutenberg Replace Page Builders Like Elementor, Divi or Beaver Builder?
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As we keep rolling towards WordPress 5.0, a lot of people are wondering if we'll see Gutenberg replace page builders like Elementor, Divi or Beaver Builder once it's officially merged into the core. In this post, I'll shed some light on this topic and analyze what's likely to come next for page builders in the "Gutenberg age".
(read more)Build for Gutenberg: How Plugin and Theme Authors Are Addressing the Transition to Gutenberg
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At WordCamp Europe 2018, Matt Mullenweg laid out a rough roadmap for Gutenberg over the next several months. In July, there’s going to be a big push to increase Gutenberg adoption, with a 5.0 beta in play for August (or beyond; actually, probably beyond). The impending integration may have you wondering how WordPress developers are planning to build for Gutenberg.
(read more)WordPress S3 Tutorial: How to Connect WordPress to Amazon S3 Bucket
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Looking for a WordPress S3 tutorial to get your WordPress site up and running with Amazon S3? Or maybe you simply want to offload WordPress media to S3? In this post, I'll take you through everything that you need to know about WordPress, Amazon S3, and how to make the two work together.
(read more)Shared vs Managed WordPress Hosting: The Key Differences and How to Make Your Decision
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Shared vs managed WordPress hosting has been a hot-button topic in the WordPress community for a long time now. And we’re no strangers to it either – in our multiple hosting reviews, comparisons and surveys, we’ve always come across many interesting points of view and opinions coming from each side of the barricade.
(read more)How to Use the WordPress Block Editor – Your WordPress Gutenberg Guide
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Back on December 6th, 2018, with WordPress 5.0's release, WordPress got a new default content editor. Called the WordPress Gutenberg editor while in development, "Gutenberg" is now known as just the "WordPress editor" or "block editor" if you want to be more specific. This tutorial explains everything you need to know to get started with it.
(read more)What’s the Best WordPress Translation Plugin? WPML vs Polylang vs Weglot vs TranslatePress
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You can find yourself looking for the right WordPress translation plugin in a couple of scenarios. Chief of them - when creating a multilingual website. The task in itself is usually a pretty big undertaking, so it makes sense that you want to get the plugin decision right from day one.
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Your Default Blog Homepage Sucks: How to Build a “Start” Page Instead
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If you’re like most bloggers, you spend a ton of time on your blog posts. Crafting the perfect headline. Writing that intro that grabs readers just right. And while your posts certainly are important…how much time does that leave to spend on your blog homepage? Or, maybe a better question – do you even have a WordPress blog homepage that’s not just a list of your most recent posts?
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How to Create a Physical Product Marketplace Like Etsy (on WordPress)
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TL;DR: “WordPress and eCommerce”? Who would have guessed just 5 years ago that this would be a viable possibility. Surely not anyone in my university class. Nevertheless, we’re here. And WordPress is now perfectly capable of handling an eCommerce business of any type, basically. So to check the extent of that, we’re looking into the topic of creating a physical product marketplace like Etsy … all on WordPress.
(read more)5 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Multi-Vendor Marketplaces
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This post digs into 5 popular platforms used to create multi-vendor marketplaces. View real screenshots and discover how these platforms compare. We get into the specifics of what makes each of these platforms great, look into their pros and cons, and give you direct advice on which one to choose.
(read more)8 Mailchimp Alternatives “Better & Cheaper” (+ The One We Use)
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Looking for some Mailchimp alternatives to help you with email marketing (be it for ecommerce or your business overall)? Mailchimp may be one of the most recognizable names in email marketing, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right tool for you (I mean, people still like Pepsi, right?).
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