Generator Labs – An Effective Way to Monitor Your Website, Email Deliverability & More
Generator Labs is a flexible monitoring service that can monitor uptime, email deliverability, SSL certificates and more.
Kevin Muldoon
Growmatik Review – Turn Your Visitors Into Customers
Growmatik is a feature-rich marketing service that helps you convert visitors into customers. The service describes itself as an “Omni-Channel Marketing” solution, which means that the focus is on providing users with the right content at the right time. The overall goal is to give people value. In practice, what that means is that Growmatik … Read more
The Switch Back to GeneratePress & The WordPress Block Editor
GeneratePress is an efficient WordPress theme that loads quickly on desktops and mobile devices. This blog has been using the premium version of GeneratePress since early 2020 and it’s by far the fastest WordPress theme I have used. Despite the speed of GeneratePress, for a couple of weeks in July 2021, I opted to use … Read more
Three Reasons to Use Elementor (And Three Reasons Not To)
For many years, this website used the popular WordPress theme Genesis by StudioPress. It remains one of my favourite WordPress frameworks, but in early 2020 I wanted to try something different and opted for the lightweight WordPress design GeneratePress. I can’t speak highly enough about GeneratePress. It’s one of the easiest WordPress themes to optimise … Read more
Offermative Review – A Powerful Sales Funnel for WooCommerce Shops
Offermative is a feature-rich WooCommerce plugin that was designed to help online shops increase conversions. It simplifies and automates an advanced sales funnel, offering customers discounts, special offers, upsells, cross-sells, product recommendations and more. The plugin is highly customisable, allowing you to create offers for customers based on many unique conditions. This personal approach to … Read more
Why I’m Cancelling My Premium Dropbox Plan
I have been a happy Dropbox user since the service launched in the late 2000s. The company was a pioneer in the world of cloud storage hosting and it continues to be one of the best cloud storage solutions available online. Although I was an early adopter of Dropbox, for the first few years, I … Read more
How to Manage Internal & External Links Effectively in WordPress
A big part of search engine optimisation involves managing internal and external hyperlinks on your website. Nine attributes are available for the HTML anchor element (<A>). The most important attribute is href as it defines the URL a user should go to, but you will also see the target attribute used frequently on websites. The … Read more
How to Organise, Manage & Schedule Content Effectively in WordPress
WordPress remains the most popular platform for building websites. There are great alternatives available online, but I truly believe that when it comes to creating content, nothing beats WordPress and its revolutionary post type system. The introduction of the block editor has also improved the experience of creating content with WordPress. I was initially hesitant … Read more
Restarting the Blogging Engine
Maintaining a successful blog is a lot like driving a steam train. It takes a lot of energy to get it going, but even when you’re on the right track, you need to keep adding fuel to the fire or it will eventually grind to a halt. Failure to follow the principle of publishing good … Read more
11 Free Syntax Highlighter WordPress Plugins to Make Your Code Stand Out
Syntax highlighting is a common feature of Text Editors which uses multiple colours and fonts to help you read and analyse code more easily. They can help you view the structure of code, make comments stand out and quickly point out any errors you have made. It’s a feature that many of us take for … Read more