Author: Mark Zahra

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.

Articles written by Mark Zahra

Getting to Know Robert Abela, Founder of MelaPress

This week we have an interview with Robert Abela. He is a fellow Maltese, like myself and Jean, and also the founder of a great WordPress plugin, WP Activity Log.

Robert has grown the plugin to over 80,000 active installs and an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars on wordpress.org. That’s no mean feat, so we decided to ask him a few questions about where he came from, how he grew the business, and what’s to come of Robert and WP Activity Log in the future.

How Content Curation Can Help Your Site Reach 100,000 Weekly Hits

A case-study for the WP RSS Aggregator plugin. We look into a website called Classic Car Curation that, through the use of original content and imported RSS feeds, has amassed over 100,000 weekly hits on their WordPress site. A testament to the power of a constant flow of fresh content.

The BigCommerce & WordPress Integration (Headless Commerce)

With WooCommerce being the e-commerce solution of choice for over 2.9 million WordPress sites, a headless commerce solution such as BigCommerce must offer something special to gain some market-share. Here’s a look at why that might actually start to happen.

Goodbye Slack. Hey Twist!

We are a remote team currently spread across 4 countries. Aside from communication being key, our choice of communication tools is vital. Here’s why we moved away from Slack and opted to start using Twist.

$25M in Sales on Envato: A Q&A with Markus from ThemeFusion

Recently, ThemeFusion hit the $25 million mark in sales on Envato’s Themeforest marketplace. This is a massive milestone for any company and one that needs to be celebrated. David Scott, Envato’s PR & Communication’s Manager, decided to get to know a little more about this milestone, how they got here, and what’s next. The result is a Q&A with Markus, the CTO of ThemeFusion.

How to Create an Online Magazine That You Can Monetize

Online magazine websites are the go-to source for the latest news on a specific topic. Whether it’s food, entertainment, sport, business or even WordPress news, having a single source where you can browse articles and videos from multiple sources is a brilliant time-saver. If you can monetize that, what’s stopping you?

WordPress Performance

How Does WordPress’ Performance Compare to Other CMS Options?

I recently read an article by Danny Richman from seotraininglondon.org and it got me thinking about WordPress’ current performance capabilities and the community’s ability and willingness to implement the best possible solutions for both performance and SEO.

When to Release Plugin Updates

We recently re-launched our EDD Bookings plugin with a completely revamped code-base. Development wasn’t the only area we worked on improving though. One other facet of our processes that we wanted to work on was the release cycle. Here’s the best solution we found (so far).

Why Our New Plugin Started at Version 0.1

When we re-launched EDD Bookings a few weeks back, we did so at version 0.1. This might not be the norm in the WordPress space as most plugin developers and owners tend to release at 1.0. We follow Semantic Versioning – a widely adopted standard for versioning that advocates the use of version numbers that have real meaning.