Karol Krol is a writer, content strategist, and WordPress figure-outer with over 20 years of experience rooted in website building and web technologies. With his expertise underpinned by a master's degree in computer science, he authored "WordPress Complete" - the ultimate WordPress handbook for newbies. His work has been published across numerous industry websites. He leads the editorial team at WPShout.
If you want to be the worst WordPress designer on the planet, search no more! This is the only guide you'll ever need! Here's how to achieve your majestic goal in eight steps or less! If you're an aspiring WordPress designer, you should read this. It'll protect you from some of the common mistakes.
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We love WordPress. It's cool enough! But it's also not for everybody... At least it's not for the kind of people who might be susceptible to WordPress' *charm* in certain areas.
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It’s difficult not to be amazed at how significantly WordPress has evolved since its humble beginnings in 2003. What once started as a simple blogging platform is now the most popular website management system of them all, running nearly 30% of the entire web.
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Here are the results of 8 of our WordPress hosting surveys - from 2014 to 2024 - aka. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of WordPress Hosting."
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RSS is dead, long live RSS! Granted, people haven't been excited about RSS for a long time. The technology is surely past its prime in the eyes of the public, but it's still very much in use behind the curtains. What's more, you can still achieve pretty great things with it for your WordPress site.
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WordPress is a wonderful project, but as with any software you may find yourself wishing you had some kind of backdoor access to your code and database. Thankfully, there is a solution that can help. The WP-CLI project gives you command-line access to your WordPress installation. In this article, we'll introduce some of the typically irritating tasks that WP-CLI makes almost a fun experience, and show you how to accomplish them using the tool.
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One of the great things about WordPress is the ever-growing community of people that surrounds it. People who are not only willing to extend the software itself, but also share their knowledge and experience with everyone else via some brilliant WordPress tutorials.
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Web hosting for small business is not something that we usually focus too much attention on. I mean, even when building a website for a small business client, we are still very likely to recommend a popular overall hosting solution, like WP Engine or SiteGround.
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Looking for the best eCommerce platforms is kind of like looking for the best car. There really isn’t one. I mean, sure, one car is going to be the best for your specific needs, and another car is going to be the best for someone else’s specific needs. But there’s no universally best car for everyone. I’m sure we can agree on that.
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First off, let’s try answering the most pressing question: Where’s the money made with free WordPress hosting platforms? I think we can all agree – with 100% certainty – that even though the servers are free, the money still has to be made somewhere, somehow.
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Love them or hate them, email subscription popup plugins just do their job. And they do their job well. So well, in fact, that reports of 600% increases in conversion rates purely as a result of implementing the right email marketing strategy are not uncommon to see.
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TL;DR: We moved the CodeinWP blog over to Kinsta WordPress hosting a couple of years ago. In this post, we’d like to give you our honest assessment of Kinsta‘s platform, being the result of our first-hand experience with it. In other words, we try to answer the question of whether Kinsta WordPress hosting really is as awesome as everybody says.
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If you're in the market for a slider plugin for WordPress then I really don't envy you. And don't get me wrong, it's not like I have anything against sliders, I don't. It's just that picking the best slider plugins is much like picking the best car. There's just wayyyy too many options out there.
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If you’re looking for a good WordPress hosting platform, and you’re just about done with cheap low-quality providers, then you’re in a good place. Today, we’re comparing five of the most popular and recognized managed WordPress hosting solutions out there: WP Engine vs Pagely vs Synthesis vs Flywheel vs GoDaddy.
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If you're not interested in all-things WordPress hosting, then sorry, but we're going at it again (with this WordPress hosting infographic). For a good reason, though! Whether we like it or not, hosting is a mandatory element in any website-building project.
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TL;DR: What you're about to read is our list of 100 WordPress theme shops currently in the market, and their rank relative to one another. In other words, you can see who's on top of the game, who's growing, who's declining. The WordPress theme shop directory 2019 edition.
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This post compares the performance and the features offered by the leaders in the CDN market for WordPress (but not limited to). Read on to find out which of the main players is most likely to work for your WordPress site: MaxCDN (StackPath) vs CloudFlare vs Amazon CloudFront vs Akamai Edge vs Fastly.
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Jira Software is impressive. Let’s be honest here. Atlassian – the company behind it – has not only built a great development and project management tool, but also lined up a whole range of other tools that integrate with the main package (handling things like documentation, help desk, etc.).
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Is the (managed) WordPress hosting industry coming to an end? I mean, is WordPress easy-to-grasp enough so that we no longer need any companies helping us out setting up our web servers, and then taking care of those servers on a regular basis?
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TL;DR: Mandrill wanted to raise their prices 4x. They found a way to do that by merging with MailChimp. Here are some Mandrill alternatives. I know I know ... I sound like a click-baity BuzzFeed headline, sorry. But that's, more or less, the case.
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They say that blog posts with images get around 94 percent more views than those without them. Yeah, alright, but are those “just numbers”? I mean, is there any particular reason why images work that well on WordPress blogs, or do we just like to look at them … with no further explanation needed?
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What's the average optin rate you get on your WordPress site/blog? If you're using only basic forms in the sidebar, it's probably something in the 0.5% range (or less). Meaning, for every 200 visitors to your site, only *1* ends up subscribing to your email list.
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Okay, so you’re writing a post/article or creating some other piece of content around WordPress, but you want for what you’re saying to pack a stronger punch … to resonate with the reader better.
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When you’re starting a new business, you need to pay attention to the smallest of details. One of such, is a good-looking and well-optimized website that can help you market and build a brand. To help you get going right away, we’ve prepared this list of the best free WordPress business themes on the market.
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