Mandrill Pricing Too Much? 5 Cheaper Mandrill Alternatives
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.
(read more)5 Best Custom Post Types Plugins for WordPress Compared
With custom post types, you can turn your standard WordPress website into a fully-fledged content management system. On top of that, custom post types will also enable you to introduce some uniqueness on your site, and help it stand out from all the others.
(read more)Free Images for Blogs – How to Get Them & Use Them Effectively (Warning! Non-Obvious Advice, Data-Backed)
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?
(read more)Step by Step: How to Build a Community Around Your WordPress Site
In the spirit of the many transparency reports we read here at CodeinWP, in this part, I want to share the step-by-step process I am using to build my community over at forum.billbelew.com (around my WordPress site at BillBelew.com).
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