Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.
AI tools like ChatGPT recommend WordPress plugins from best-of lists and YouTube. Let’s take a look at the Ahrefs data on what gets your product cited, and what to do differently (or the same) compared with traditional SEO efforts.
WordPress powers about 41.5% of all websites, but the landscape is shifting. As the platform matures, core users are aging while newer generations move toward simpler, AI-driven solutions. Hosted platforms like Shopify and Wix are reshaping website creation, leaving WordPress to face a perception problem and a plugin economy that favors some over others.
AI agents need exactly what aggregation sites have been producing for humans for the last decade. If you run one, you have a second revenue line you probably have not noticed yet.
My seven-year-old wants to build his first website. As someone who’s spent over 20 years in WordPress, this should be an easy decision. But 2025’s governance drama between Automattic and WP Engine revealed an uncomfortable truth about WordPress’s single point of failure. It made me wonder: should I still be teaching WordPress in 2026? So I went looking for alternatives.
In this post we take a look at companies offering managed WordPress hosting. These companies have in-house WordPress experts and have built their hosting system from the ground up to be tailored for the specific needs of a WordPress site.
WordPress powers a huge slice of the global web, but most sites still speak only one language. These multilingual plugins are the easiest way to fix that, with options for automatic translation, manual workflows, and full multilingual SEO.
As the usage of WordPress continues to grow exponentially on a global level, so does the need for proper multilingual capabilities on WordPress websites. Luckily, WordPress can be a joy to use when creating multilingual content, chiefly due to the presence of a fantastic plugin, aptly named WPML (WordPress Multilingual).
If you’re a freelancer working with WooCommerce and WordPress, sooner or later you will need a good invoicing application to generate estimates and bill your clients. These are the best WordPress and WooCommerce invoice plugins you can find.
Many businesses need to accept bookings and appointments through their website. Since millions of such websites are based on WordPress, it follows naturally that there is a need for good appointment plugins for WordPress.
We, therefore, tested the options on the market and present you with the best WordPress appointment and booking plugins we’ve found.
Are you doing any kind of affiliate marketing on your website or blog? In this post, we’ll see how you can use one platform to gather all your affiliate performance results from all the different affiliate platforms you’re signed up to!
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If you run a multi-author blog and you’re letting other writers pen their articles directly in your blog’s wp-admin, you will probably want to limit their access to what they can see or do. Here’s a look at how I do that on my WordPress sites.