Announcing the Business 5000
If you follow on me on Twitter you may have come across my announcement of the Business 5000 idea accelerator program. In today’s episode, I’ll dive a bit deeper into my thought process around the new venture. I recently uploaded this video to YouTube as well, covering some of these points. Here’s the article I […]
How to Choose the Right WordPress Hosting in 2020 (Shared, VPS, Cloud)
Before we start You can see below I have not listed tons of hosting companies. My main job is to work with clients by helping them build their websites. I can change some companies and add others because I’m always looking for the best value and quality. WPCtrl’s pick The most affordable, fully managed VPS […]
How Many Plugins are Too Many for WordPress?
WordPress powers 35.7% of all websites. Did you know that a main reason for WordPress’ popularity is due to its plugins? Plugins help WordPress sites unleash their potential to help perform at their best. But here’s the catch: Having too many plugins – especially the free ones – on your site is not a good […]
The WordPress journalism comeback and when will Awesome Motive acquire e-commerce?
We’re back! Stoked that WordPress journalism is making a comeback in 2020. Here I was feeling all down and out over covering WordPress and a few friends of mine are re-investing in the space. Happy to see Cory Miller become a partner at Poststatus and finally get Brian working on the company again. Well-known WP […]
Add Pros and Cons Section to Your Reviews (Gutenberg edition)
This post is a sequel to the old ‘Add Pros and Cons Boxes‘ tutorial. I thought a lot of things changed to the way we create content in WordPress today and I made this new, updated version on how to add Pros & Cons section (boxes) to your review articles. When I first saw the […]
Speed Up WordPress Guide – Less than 1.9 seconds Load Time [Even on Cheap Hosting]
Page speed is a factor that can be measured precisely with a bunch of tools online. Furthermore, every visitor, even the not technically competent, could sense rather a website is loading fast or slow. Today the vast majority of users spend their online time in the popular social apps, reading news from the big online […]
Starting a WordPress Site Care Business? Ask Yourself These 5 Questions First
While WordPress is a power player in the world of content management systems, it’s not free of vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities cause 41% of attacks on the platform. This reason is what makes WordPress site care businesses profitable nowadays. Since lots of people run their online businesses using the CMS, they will need all the help […]
Blog Income Reports 2020 – See How They Did it so You Can Do it Too
Income reports are a source of motivation for a lot of bloggers and non-bloggers who think of starting their own website. Seeing the success and the exact methods that led to it can spark the entrepreneurial spirit in every one of us. This is a great source of practical knowledge if the post is written […]
Making WordPress news w/ Post Status
WordPress journalism and news coverage is making a comeback. I’m delighted to sit down and have a chat with my two friends in the WordPress space, Brian Krogsgard and Cory Miller, now partners at Post Status. I often joke that Post Status is a competitor to the Matt Report, truth be told, Brian and Cory […]
WordPress Gutenberg Themes That Work Best with Blocks
Do you want to get the most out of your WordPress-powered website? If so, making sure your theme is compatible with WordPress’ latest block editor: Gutenberg, will get you off to a good start. Compared to what’s now known as the WordPress classic editor, Gutenberg’s building blocks approach lets you build beautiful pages using a […]
