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.
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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Pulling articles from other sites into your own can be tricky. Pick the wrong plugin and you get clutter, broken layouts, or half-loaded posts that are nowhere near your editorial standards.
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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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A managed WordPress host is like a quiet employee that you hire with your credit card. You do not ever meet them. You just feel their presence and work all around. Your web pages show up, or they do not. Your checkout loads, or orders get lost. Your blog is fast, or your reader leaves.
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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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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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Want to show data on your WordPress site? And I don't mean just dump some numbers on a page. I mean actually make it clear, clean, easy to understand, and frankly good looking. Well, you need a tool for charts.
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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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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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