Managed WordPress Hosting: 10 Best Providers Compared
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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?
(read more)10+ Best WordPress Directory Themes
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Directory websites require a slightly different WordPress theme / design to be effective at what they do. A directory website usually contains big amounts of information, has a set of particular features, and uses a specific layout to present that information. All this poses some unique challenges when building such a site.
(read more)FreshBooks vs QuickBooks vs Xero vs Invoice.to vs WP-Invoice vs Sprout Invoices
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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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Product Hunt Collections for WordPress – The Ultimate List
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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?
(read more)Mandrill Pricing Too Much? 5 Cheaper Mandrill Alternatives
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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.
(read more)10+ Best Restaurant WordPress Themes for 2021
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Even though food quality is always the most important thing when it comes to the restaurant business, choosing the right design for a restaurant's website can also play a huge role in your restaurant's ability to attract reservations and connect with its customers online.
(read more)43 Expert Bloggers Weigh In: What’s the Most Powerful Social Media Marketing Strategy
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In today’s digital economy, practical business knowledge is more than powerful. It is essential for survival and elementary for thriving! And it’s no different when you’re looking for a social media marketing strategy.
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Data Says: Is Building a Community Around Your WordPress Site Worth the Effort?
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In this part, I want to return to the main question I started off with at the very beginning when I approached CodeinWP about writing this series of reports:
(read more)10+ Best Fashion Blog and Magazine WordPress Themes
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Fashion is one of the most popular topics among people overall. Maybe only weather beats it. Or gossip. Nevertheless, this is something WordPress designers understand very well, and that's why we have so many interesting WordPress themes tailor-made for fashion blogs and magazines specifically.
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5 Best Custom Post Types Plugins for WordPress Compared
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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)10+ Best Cheap Premium WordPress Themes for 2021
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There are lots of great premium WordPress themes out here, but who says a theme is defined by its price? I’ve seen plenty of cheap themes that simply made me fall in love with their design. So, if you don’t want to spend a lot of money on an expensive theme, but it also doesn’t sound like a good idea to use a free one – there are lots of in-between options on the market.
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Free Images for Blogs – How to Get Them & Use Them Effectively (Warning! Non-Obvious Advice, Data-Backed)
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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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15+ Best Travel WordPress Themes of 2023 (Optimized and Beautiful)
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Why travel WordPress themes? Well, “travel” is one of the biggest markets out there. In fact, the travel industry accounts for 10% of all employment in the world. Again, that’s all employment (roughly 277 million jobs)! That’s why the competition in this field is very high too, and every travel agency needs to get their customers’ attention somehow. Having a catchy and intuitive website can be the key to your growth.
(read more)10+ Best Minimalist WordPress Themes in 2023
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Why minimalist WordPress themes? Well, even in the era of all those fancy new things and all-in-one themes, minimalism is still something that, when done right, can bring results in virtually any niche.
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Step by Step: How to Build a Community Around Your WordPress Site
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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).
(read more)MotoPress Content Editor vs Elementor vs Beaver Builder vs Divi Builder vs WPBakery Page Builder vs SiteOrigin Page Builder
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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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10+ Best Video WordPress Themes for 2023
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If you want to launch a website that’s meant to house videos as its main content type – made by you or collected from somewhere else – WordPress is surely capable of making that happen.
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OptinMonster vs LeadPages vs Sumo vs Thrive Leads
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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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