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

Using CloudFlare with WordPress

We’ve recently started using the CloudFlare service on WPMayor, and are very happy with it. For those who haven’t heard of it yet, CloudFlare is a FREE system that acts as a proxy between your visitors and our server. By acting as a proxy, CloudFlare caches static content for your site, which lowers the number of requests to our servers, but still allows visitors to access your site.

WordPress Forum Plugins

A forum on your website can increase visitor engagement and allow you to start a loyal community. There are a few WordPress forum plugins available. Let’s take a look at them and see what’s best.

Best Email Marketing / Newsletter System for WordPress

Ok, you’ve made the decision to start sending out newsletters as part of your marketing strategy. Excellent choice! Email marketing is one of the cheapest and most rewarding forms of marketing nowadays.

The next choice you have to make is whether to use an online service provided by companies who specialise in email marketing, or install a plugin that can handle all your needs from within WordPress. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of each and check out the best WordPress newsletter plugin.

How To Integrate Google Calendar into WordPress

Join us as we check out the best Google Calendar plugins for WordPress. Integrating your Google calendar can save time and avoid unnecessary duplication of data. These are definitely essential plugins for any blog or site that needs to showcase upcoming events.

How to Make a Post Series with WordPress

Instead of writing a really really long article, a better option would be that of breaking it down into a series of shorter posts/articles. Sadly WordPress does not provide in-built functionality for this. However, as usual, a host of plugins come to our rescue.

The best WordPress series plugins are the following, we’ll be discussing them in order of popularity (number of downloads).

How to Backup WordPress to a Local Computer

Backing up your WordPress site is one of those essential things that don’t get spoken about nearly as often as they should. We’ve already reviewed the best WordPress online backup tool, BackupBuddy, and today we are going to talk about another tool which allows you to backup your site to your local computer. This piece of software is Backup Smart.

The Best WordPress Wedding Themes

Building a site for your wedding is a great way to keep a record of your special day and the build up to it, or even to share photos with all your guests. Others also use a wordpress wedding site to give directions or for a list of wedding gifts. We know you are busy preparing your wedding and don’t really have time to find out which are the best WordPress wedding themes, so we’ve done the hard work for you.

Anti-Spam Solutions for WordPress

Are you fighting a losing battle against spam on your blog or website? Read on to find which plugins will provide a solution to ending spam once and for all.

How To Remove Media Upload Buttons in Post Editor

In the WordPress admin screen, when working in the post or page editor, you will see some media upload buttons above the TinyMCE editor. If you would like to hide them from your client, for example to disable the upload of such files, you can follow the steps in this post.

Using Featured Images in Custom Post Types

Custom Post Types are one of my favourite features in WordPress nowadays, and I use the excellent Easy Content Types plugin for generating them. Sometimes I need to include uploadable images within the the custom post types, and although the plugin mentioned allows file uploads, I still feel that some