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

Best Event Plugins for WordPress

Finding it hard to find an adequate Events plugin for WordPress? Check out our review of the best plugins out there, we might just have what you’ve been searching for all along.

Handy WordPress Plugins for Plugins

Strange title? I know, but today we are really considering WordPress plugins that help us in the management of other plugins. You might not have come across the plugins we are going to mention, but they sure are handy if you’re a developer working with WordPress sites on a daily basis.

Ad Management in WordPress: Comparing Four Top Plugins

Online advertising has been popular right from the infancy of the internet. In fact, online ads prove to be extremely useful for both the advertiser and the publisher. As a publisher, you can earn a steady flow of income by showing ads, whereas as an advertiser, you can drive extra traffic to your website and watch your business grow, simply by placing ads on the right channels.

Best Directory Plugins for WordPress

Best Directory Plugins for WordPress

A comprehensive guide to the best WordPress directory plugins. From enhancing local business visibility to creating a bustling online community, discover plugins that offer flexibility, monetization, and seamless integration. Perfect for developers and site owners aiming for high-performing, user-friendly directories. Dive into our reviews to find the plugin that fits your unique needs.

Examining the WordPress Core, Plugin and Theme Update Procedure

A few weeks ago I got curious to examine exactly how WordPress Core, plugins and themes are update. You know the drill from a user point of view. You get the update notification in your admin, you click update and everything is updated painlessly (usually). But what exactly is happening behind the scenes?

Toolset Coupon Code

We’ve just teamed up with the fine folks behind Toolset, the excellent plugin which lets you build WordPress sites without coding. We’re now offering 20% off to new customers of Toolset, all you have to do is buy through our link and the discount will be applied automatically.

Question & Answer Session 01 – Video

A few weeks ago I spoke about having a weekly Question and Answer session here on WP Mayor, as a means of us being able to interact more with the community that has now formed itself around this site. The video is finally ready, so take a look!

Best Plugins for Fixing Hacked WordPress Websites

Here are a couple of plugins I always rely on for identifying and fixing malware on hacked WordPress websites.

Even with these tools, ridding a hacked site of malware and malicious code is not a task for the faint of heart. If you want to leave things in the hands of professionals, I recommend that you trust Sucuri to clean your website and restore it to its former glory.

How to Use AJAX in WordPress Plugins

If you’re creating plugins for WordPress, chances are you’ll need to use AJAX at some point. Today I want to share with you some of the best resources I’ve found while I was learning how to use AJAX in plugins myself. Hope you find them useful.

Best Review Plugins for WordPress

Review sites are very popular in the affiliate marketing community but not only, so lets take a look at the best plugins we have for WordPress. These WordPress Review Plugins enable you to quickly and effortlessly create reviews on your WordPress website.

How to Properly Comment Your Themes and Plugins

One of the marks of a truly great WordPress developer, is his ability to include excellent commenting in his code. Go ahead, take a look at some of the plugins/themes by the best developers, and see how easy it is to read through their code. They adhere to the WordPress Coding Standards when writing HTML and PHP. There is also the CSS Coding Standards page on the Core Contributor Handbook, which is definitely another page to check out.

Today we will therefore look at the subject of commenting. I’m going to show you a few examples from top plugins and themes. We’ll be focusing on the use of commenting in the documentation of files and functions/classes, but we’ll also mention the normal comments you can sprinkle throughout your code.