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.
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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Running a business imposes a lot of unique challenges. Finding customers, negotiating rates, building a product, marketing that product effectively, minimizing costs, hiring new people, and on and on and on. All of this is what keeps the entrepreneur in you awake at night. And when you finally feel that you have all of the above pretty much figured out, you can still get stuck with issues as boring as bookkeeping or accounting.
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Here’s one for you: Where do you usually go if you want to discover some cool new WordPress-related tools?
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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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The standard structure of WordPress content is just boring. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s the case. And don’t get me wrong, please, I still love WordPress. It’s the most awesome content management system for the web in the history of ever!
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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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For years we've been using Contact Form 7, and not even thinking twice about trying other solutions. But is it possible that the development in the contact form realm has stopped entirely? Is Contact Form 7 the end-all, be-all of contact forms for WordPress? Of course not! So today, we're looking into the top contact form plugins for WordPress.
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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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Grammar be tough. Every blogger can relate. And for me - not being a native English speaker - it's even more brutal. I spend way too much time tweaking various parts of my posts just to make sure that they are ... what's the word ... readable. Luckily, we do have some cool tools to use these days that can make grammar less painful. Let's see which is best between Grammarly vs Jetpack vs Ginger vs Hemingway.
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Membership sites (on WordPress) are a really interesting concept, and especially when it comes to finding a unique way to deliver premium content to your audience or customers.
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Similar to how apps make iPhones great, plugins are bound to turn an ordinary WordPress site into a unique one. From form plugins like Contact Form 7 to the SEO juggernauts like Yoast, it's amazing how a simple ten-second installation process can yield such dramatic results. But not all plugins are created equal. Some of them have bad coding that messes with your theme. Others are riddled with bugs, making them almost useless in terms of functionality. That's why we want to highlight the best WordPress plugins so that your website is running at its peak performance at all times.
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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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