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Author: Jean Galea

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.

Articles written by Jean Galea

Doteasy SSD Hosting for WordPress Reviewed

A few years ago, when I was in the market for buying new hosting, I remember having the choice between shared hosting and dedicated hosting. That was a clear choice really, if you needed the powerful infrastructure and you were willing to spend money on hiring somebody to manage your server, you’d go for dedicated hosting, while for pretty much anything else you would start with shared hosting.

Nowadays hosts have fine tuned their offerings much more. We’ve seen the introduction of VPS and Cloud services, while other hosts have introduced an extra level of management to take the dirty work away from their clients, obviously at an extra cost. Hosts also started to target particular platforms like WordPress, since they have a huge market share.

How to Track Plugin Versions in Use

On the WordPress.org plugin repository, we used to be able to check which versions of each plugin are currently being used. Granted, it wasn’t super accurate, but it gave a good idea to plugin developers. Some time in the past weeks, the pie chart depicting this information was removed. So

WP RSS Aggregator Feed to Post add-on Released

We’ve just released the new Feed to Post add-on for WP RSS Aggregator.

This has been one of the most requested features for the aggregator, and we hope that you enjoy all the new functionality and possibilities that go along with the new add-on.

Introducing WooCommerce Multilingual Plugin

There is a huge demand right now for e-commerce with WordPress. E-Commerce is a complex subject by itself and when it runs multilingual, things can get difficult. Maybe this is the reason why until just now, there wasn’t any single solution for multilingual e-commerce, for any CMS platform.

Best Aggregator Themes for WordPress

So you want to set up your own content aggregator. WordPress is an ideal platform for this thanks to a number of plugins and themes. Today we’re focusing on themes that are ideal for content aggregation.

How to Set the Focal Point on WordPress Images

When you upload an image into WordPress, it automatically creates a few other (smaller) sizes that you can use within your posts and pages. There is a size for featured images, for example, or for thumbnails.

Rublon Review

Today we are reviewing the Rublon plugin. This is a plugin that hardens your WordPress login process. In other words, it makes your login process more secure.

WordCamp Europe

Last weekend I had the opportunity to be a part of WordCamp Europe, and what an event it was! This was the first WordCamp spanning multiple countries, and attracted over 700 participants. There were speakers from all over the world and the networking opportunities were amazing. I met a lot

Updating WordPress, should I Update Core or Plugins First?

WordPress updates can be a daunting thing to new users. Fear not, WordPress has one of the easiest updating systems around, and the core is designed to be as backwards compatible as possible.

When you have some updates to do, always update core first, then update your plugins and themes right after.

Is the WordPress GPL being abused?

Is the WordPress GPL Being Abused?

The GPL licence, which is the foundation of WordPress and all plugins in the WordPress repository, is a great licence, no doubt. It has permitted WordPress to become what it is today, and have such a wonderful community form around it.

I’m however seeing a small surge in the number of people who are taking advantage of the GPL in an arguably unethical way. I’m talking of the WordPress plugin stores that are cropping up and selling plugins developed by other people.

We’re not talking about ripware sites here, but rather of new and real businesses built solely on the selling of products which they themselves did not develop.