On 6 December 2018 Matt Mullenweg announced the release of WordPress 5.0. This was a significant milestone in the history of WordPress as it replaced the traditional WordPress editor with a new block editor called Gutenberg. Gutenberg is a minimal editor that allows you to create beautiful content using a …
Founded in 2003, the Utah based hosting company Bluehost is one of the largest hosting companies in the world. It was bought by the hosting behemoth Endurance International Group in 2010 and continues to host over one million websites every day. The company offers shared hosting, VPS hosting, managed WordPress …
The managed WordPress hosting market is extremely competitive. It originally started out as a niche service, however over the last few years we have seen established shared hosting and VPS hosting companies target the WordPress market (SiteGround are a good example of this). As someone who has been using cPanel …
VaultPress is a premium backup and security service from Automattic. It was not the first backup solution for WordPress, but for me it was the first one that got things right with hourly backups and one-click restores. When it comes to backups, I do not take any chances. Any website …
Although I consider myself more of a WordPress guy, Joomla has been a close second in terms of my favorites. What’s funny is that if you speak to someone who works with Joomla they’ll probably say the exact opposite. Why? Because both WordPress and Joomla work as open source content …
They say that the money is in “The List”. I am sure this has been drilled into you time and time again. This is a common phrase that has been regurgitated by internet marketers and bloggers for as long as I can remember. I have said the phrase myself in …
The glory of WooCommerce lies in the fact that it’s completely opensource. That means your average developer can tap into the API and make a plugin that improves the functionality of WooCommerce. WordPress users are used to this type of system, since it seems like any feature desired can be …
Oberlo is a popular app for the hosted eCommerce platform Shopify. The Oberlo service lets you import products directly from the Chinese super store AliExpress. The service is a drop shipper’s dream. Within a few minutes you can import thousands of targeted products to your Shopify store and then sell …
I was lucky enough to meet a lot of interesting people in Vienna when I was there for WordCamp Europe 2016. One interesting person I met was Eugeniu Topolschi who works with the highly successful WordPress theme company Tesla Themes. Their latest Project is WPmatic. Launched today, WPmatic is a …
Managed WordPress hosting companies are popular within the WordPress community. These companies optimise their servers specifically for the WordPress platform and offer a level of WordPress support that many other hosting companies will not provide. In my experience, it is mostly new website owners who use WordPress hosting servers. Their …