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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 To Create a Mobile App for Your News Curation Website

If you follow WP Mayor you may have come across our tutorial on how to create a news aggregation or news curation website with WordPress. This post proved to be a great hit with some of you even opting to create their own news site, just like we did with WP News Desk.

Following the creation of that site, we were looking at ways of how to take it one step further, which is when we were approached by the great folks at Mobiloud. They helped us to create a mobile app for WP News Desk that automatically adds new news stories just as they appear on the website.

Our Experience at WordCamp Europe 2016

It’s been over a week since we attended WordCamp Europe in Vienna and landed back on the tiny island we all call home, but it’s the first chance I’ve had to sit down and put this post together.

We came back with so many fresh ideas and with so much enthusiasm to put them into action that we haven’t stopped working since. This week I took the time to sit down and put my thoughts together, so here they are.

The New XStore WordPress Theme Makes E-Commerce Easy

XStore has just launched. This new e-commerce WordPress theme takes into account some of the cool design trends professional web designers are following.

XStore could best be described as an aesthetically minimal theme, a theme that is easy to use and is able to deliver SEO optimized websites that are favored by the search engines.

How to Add an “Add to Cart” Popup for Easy Digital Downloads

If you’ve heard of or make use of e-commerce with WordPress in any way you must have come across Easy Digital Downloads at one point or another. It’s the best (and free) plugin to sell digital downloads on your WordPress site in an easy and organised way.

Besides the basic plugin that you can download for free from the WordPress plugin repository, there are also a number of premium extensions you can purchase from the EDD website. One of the latest extensions to be released is a project undertaken by our own team; Add to Cart Popup.

Introducing Our Mobile Site Using WPtouch

Mobile-friendly websites are key in today’s world, which is why we recently launched a new WordPress mobile version of WP Mayor for all our followers to have a better experience when browsing our blog from their mobile devices.

After some research into the tools available for such a project, we opted to go for WPtouch, a mobile suite for WordPress that allowed us to display our latest content in the best way possible, while also providing the rest of the functionality we required.

Integrating SpinnerChief Into Your WordPress Site

SpinnerChief is an article spinner that can not only generate hundreds of new articles in minutes, but in one click it can also rewrite articles to a very high level of human readability and uniqueness.

Incorporating this spinner into WordPress is now made very easy through the use of the WP RSS Aggregator SpinnerChief add-on which uses this third party as an article spinner service.

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5 Pillars to Help You Hack SEO for WordPress in 2016

There are countless reasons that WordPress is currently the most popular content management system. Using WordPress, you can easily, and within minutes, set up a sharp-looking and fully hosted website from its collection of templates: a happier option compared to creating your own site from the ground using coding and self-hosting.

How to Set Up a News Aggregator with WordPress

Creating a news aggregator on WordPress is straightforward: select a theme that suits your style, install RSS feed plugins to gather news from various sources, and customize your site for a unique and user-friendly experience. This approach makes it easy to build a personalized news hub in the digital age.

How to Add a Beautiful Animated Slider with Smart Slider 3

Sliders are a great way to present various types of content to your website’s visitors while also ensuring that your site is aesthetically pleasing and attractive to the visitors’ eye. Many WordPress themes come bundled with sliders, however it’s a good idea to look at and work with a slider plugin that you choose. Here we take a look at one of the best plugins currently on the market – Smart Slider 3.

Best UK WordPress Hosting

One of the most commonly asked questions when starting a new WordPress site is which type of hosting you need, and which company provides the best product. Well, there isn’t a simple answer that applies to all cases, but one of the deciding factors that you must consider is the location of the hosting companies’ datacentres.