INFOGRAPHIC: WooCommerce vs Magento vs Shopify
WooCommerce, Magento, and Shopify are three of the most popular e-commerce solutions in the market. When put together, they collectively run more than 2.5M online stores!
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4 New Creative Use Cases on How to Automate Your Social Media Presence via WordPress (Never Before Published)
Let’s start with something fairly obvious – sharing your content on social media is important, of course. However, who actually has the time to really make it a truly deliberate and thought through practice? Basically, even though we know it to be something very valuable in the long term, we find it hard to devote our time and attention to it on a daily basis.
(read more)Best SMTP Providers Compared – Amazon SES vs SendinBlue vs SendGrid vs Mandrill
Do you use email as one of the puzzle pieces in your overall online business strategy? If the answer is yes, and it probably indeed is yes, then you should look into what some of the best SMTP providers can do for you – and that’s both in terms of giving you new tools to make your existing tasks easier, as well as revealing totally new possibilities.
(read more)3 Absolute Best RSS to Post WordPress Plugins and What You Can Do With Each
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.
(read more)What's Coming in WordPress 4.8 – See New Features in Action
Excited for the first major WordPress release of the year – WordPress 4.8? The launch is set to happen on June 8-9, which is basically just around the corner (and just before WCEU). No wonder there’s a lot of talk going on in the community already as to what sort of improvements that new version is set to deliver.
(read more)Best Web Hosting for Small Business – What Your Clients Want vs What They Actually Need
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.
(read more)Looking for the Best eCommerce Platform? Top Contenders Compared
Looking for the best eCommerce platforms is kind of like looking for the best car. There really isn’t one.
(read more)Free WordPress Hosting: Is It Worth It? Data Gives Us the Answer
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.
(read more)New Tags Coming to the WordPress Plugin Repo? Users Respond With an Unanimous "Meh"
According to our small survey, 90% of users say they don’t care if a free plugin they’re getting from the directory is only a limited, “lite” version of the fully-featured PRO. Okay, I might have BuzzFeeded the stats a bit here. The exact question we asked was, “Would you not use a WordPress.org plugin, just because it has a PRO version also available?” Again, 90% said
(read more)Which is the Best WordPress Popup Plugin? 4 Top Solutions Compared
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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Transparency Report #22 – The Lessons From the CodeinWP/ThemeIsle Team
Welcome to the 22nd edition of our monthly transparency report (for November 2016). This series is about everything interesting that’s been going on behind the scenes at CodeinWP, ThemeIsle, and Revive.Social. Click here to see the previous reports.
(read more)6 Best Slider Plugins for WordPress Compared
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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[Latest] Starter Content Now Allowed in WordPress.org Themes
Okay, not “now” … more like “soon.” And it’s not only about WordPress.org themes either.
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