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

How We Recovered $10,000+ In Lost Sales Using Jilt

In late 2016 we were looking into ways we can increase revenue for our WP RSS Aggregator plugin. As part of this research, I came across the idea of cart recovery. This is the process of recovering abandoned carts through follow-up emails. An abandoned cart is when a customer adds

The Struggle of Remote Hiring

Hiring remote workers isn’t always easy. You need to find someone who is great at their job, but also trustworthy and knows how to work in a remote team. These are the struggles we faced in our search for a UI/UX designer and a JS developer.

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The WP RSS Aggregator Plugin is Looking for Translators

The WP RSS Aggregator plugin is growing and looking for translators to translate both the core plugin and add-ons into several languages. If you’re fluent in any of the below languages and would like to help out the community, get in touch via the link below. You’ll be rewarded with

WordPress Grid Plugins To Display Your Posts and Pages in a Grid Layout

WordPress Grid Plugins To Display Your Posts and Pages in a Grid Layout

One essential tool in a web designer’s bag of tricks is a grid builder. Grid builders provide an overall framework within which your content can be placed. They provide a skeleton of invisible lines for arranging content in a neat and organized fashion.

Building a grid should be an easy process that doesn’t take up too much of your time. And if you’re using WordPress, there are a number of quality plugins that let you get to work right away. Using lightweight and clean WordPress grid plugins, you can plan and execute a grid system on any page, right down to the last detail.

Best Google Analytics Plugins for WordPress

Google Analytics was launched by Google in 2005 to provide a service with which you can know your audience, trace your customer path and see what they’re all up to.

Ever since its introduction it has grown and developed, providing new and better ways of tracking and of showing you all the statistics you might want.

With both WordPress and Google Analytics growing at such a rapid rate it was only a matter of time before someone found a way of combining the two. Hence, Google Analytics plugins.

4 Easy Steps to Import Medium Posts to Your WordPress.org Site

If you haven’t heard, Medium recently announced some changes to their business model. If you haven’t read about it, you can find it explained here. After this news, it appears that some Medium users started to consider moving to WordPress.com. So much so that Automattic built an import tool to import Medium posts to a WordPress.com site.

But what if you wanted a self-hosted site that you can have free control of, like you can do with WordPress.org? Well, we’re here to show you another simple tool for importing those Medium posts into your WordPress.org website.

How to Add Reddit Feeds to Your WordPress Site

Reddit bridges communities and individuals with ideas, the latest digital trends, and breaking news (…okay, and maybe cats). There are a couple of ways your WordPress site can benefit from reddit. Firstly, you can build a complete website based on feeds from various reddits. Alternatively, you can supplement your current website with reddits about related topics.

How To Share Youtube Videos On Your WordPress Site

Who doesn’t love watching Youtube videos from time to time?

Be it a silly cat video or an interesting documentary, there is an infinite number of things to watch on Youtube, and millions of people to watch them. Why not take advantage of that and create a WordPress site that brings together the best Youtube videos of your liking?

There are a number of reasons you might want to share Youtube videos on your site. They can be your own videos or those of others. Either way, video is fast becoming one of the most popular ways of sharing your views and interests.

New WP RSS Aggregator Website Launched

WP RSS Aggregator is a part of the RebelCode family that WP Mayor also forms part of.

This week we launched a brand new website for the WP RSS Aggregator plugins. The aim of this new design was to help the user find exactly what they need, faster. We implemented a few new tutorials and use-cases to guide the user to what they need.