Mark Zahra runs WP Mayor and leads RebelCode, the company behind WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight Instagram Feeds. That dual vantage point, both publisher and product builder, shapes how he covers the WordPress ecosystem. He has shipped products to tens of thousands of sites and reviewed hundreds more. He started with WordPress in 2012, joined WP Mayor in 2014, and has since written for a community of millions, focused on honest, practical guidance readers can act on.
PeepSo is one of the most popular plugins to build an online community on WordPress. In our hands-on PeepSo review, we’ll take a detailed look at this plugin and help you understand if it’s the best option for your site.
Exporting from Lightroom or Canva and re-uploading into WordPress one file at a time is the kind of busywork nobody misses. LightSync Pro collapses it into a direct sync, with format conversion and compression handled on the way in.
Both FastPixel and NitroPack handle WordPress performance from the cloud. The differences are in Object Cache, CDN bandwidth limits, and how the pricing scales as your traffic and site count grows. Let’s compare the two performance plugins in detail.
I’ve read a lot of WordPress maintenance pitches over the years, and most of them blur into the same list of updates, backups, uptime monitoring, a security scan, and a monthly PDF report nobody opens. It’s fine in some cases, but it’s also the reason so many online store and
Packetra offers WordPress hosting from Finland and Switzerland with email-only signup, crypto payment support, and a minimal-logs commitment. Here’s where it fits in the WordPress hosting landscape, what stands out, and where the trade-offs are.
WPMU DEV now offers one-click managed hosting for EmDash, Cloudflare’s new open-source CMS, letting you run EmDash sites right alongside your WordPress sites in the same dashboard. Here’s what it does well, where it falls short, and who it’s actually for.
WP Rocket is the most recommended WordPress caching plugin. FastPixel is newer, cloud-based, and handles caching, CDN, Critical CSS, and image optimisation in one plugin. Here’s how they actually compare.
I’ve liked SiteGround for 14 years, since it hosted my first WordPress site, which is exactly why this is worth writing about. They pushed an AI plugin onto over a million sites nobody asked for, and the fallout is a lesson for every company in how fast you can spend trust that took years to build.
ShortPixel offers AI image tools and leads on JPEG compression in independent benchmarks. EWWW counters with a genuinely useful free tier and a performance toolkit that goes beyond image optimization. Here’s how to choose between ShortPixel and EWWW for your website’s image optimization.
Failing Core Web Vitals and a list of fixes that all require server access. There’s a simpler way with FastPixel. It handles the full performance stack from the cloud, with no server configuration and no plugin juggling, all in under 15 minutes.
Both ShortPixel and Imagify compress WordPress images, support WebP and AVIF, and are trusted by hundreds of thousands of sites. The differences only show up when you look beyond the basics. Here is what actually sets them apart.
Two of the most persistent PageSpeed complaints come down to images. Here’s how to fix both in a single workflow. Learn how to compress your entire media library and switch to WebP and AVIF delivery using the ShortPixel plugin.