Karol Krol is 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 CodeinWP.
The whole WordPress.com vs WordPress.org thing is really confusing. For everyone. First off, and it needs to be said right away, WordPress.org and WordPress.com are two entirely different websites / organizations / web solutions. Here's everything you need to know.
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The question of how to monetize a blog is often the very first thing that new bloggers ask. In this guide, we have five methods for you - all of them battle-tested ways to monetize a blog. We go through them one by one and explain how to implement them for maximum impact.
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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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Let's be up-front about one thing when it comes to learning how to promote your blog… You need either time or money to hope for any kind of worthwhile results. Today, we explain what that means and show you how to promote your blog in a way that's ACTUALLY effective = get blog traffic.
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In this guide, we go through the whole process of how to write a good blog post - a post that actually gets results and is exactly what your audience needs. Step by step instructions, all the way from research to writing, editing, and publication.
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Figuring out what to blog about / picking a good topic for your blog can be challenging. Most people find it difficult. Here's what to do about it.
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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.
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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! There's a very good reason why those three are the leaders. They're functional, scalable, offer some nice designs, and, most importantly, make it really easy for people to launch their own e-commerce stores, even if they've had no prior website-building experience.
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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.
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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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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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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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I'm officially crappy with email. And it's not that I don't care or I can't be bothered when people contact me. I just seem not compatible with the medium itself. Being a pro blogger and working with WordPress, this doesn't make my life easy, and especially when dealing with new prospective clients who might be put off by my struggles.
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TL;DR: Today we are going to compare popular project management solutions: JIRA vs Trello vs Asana vs TeamClerk vs … WordPress?
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Looking for the best WordPress hosting that you can actually afford? We did the testing for you. Here are 10+ best hosts on the market compared.
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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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