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.
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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This is an in-depth comparison of Divi vs Avada vs X Theme – what you’ll learn here is which of the three is the optimal solution for building client websites (or feature-rich websites of your own too).
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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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Today, we're comparing 5 of the top shared hosting providers for WordPress: SiteGround vs Bluehost vs HostGator vs InMotion Hosting vs GoDaddy.
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So you’re looking for a way to build a website, but you don’t want to pay a lot of money for it, nor do you want to spend days trapped in some source code doing it all by yourself, right?
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As of the time of this writing, there are more than 10,000 WordPress themes in the WordPress repository and countless more that are offered directly through developers' websites. Our team of WordPress professionals has searched the four corners of the WordPress repository and the outer galaxies of the internet, all so we could filter that mega list down to only the 20 best WordPress themes available on the market today.
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WordPress is not perfect as a web development platform, especially when working with clients. That's why we need to adapt a certain approach if we want to make them happy (read: so they will pay us).
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