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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

CMS Commander: The Smart Way to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites

When you’re a developer handling a number of WordPress sites, or have a number of your own personal websites to attend to, you know how tedious it can get to maintain every single one individually.

You have to keep every websites’ themes and plugins up to date, login to each site every time you’d like to publish a post, create back-ups for each one, and so on. All this takes up a lot of your time, time which can be used more productively.

Hence the creation of CMS Commander – your WordPress command centre.

WP RSS Aggregator Is Looking To Partner Up With Some Great Developers

Our WP RSS Aggregator plugin is growing at a steady pace and has exceeded the 300,000 all-time downloads mark. What this means is that we’re also getting more requests for some fine tuning here and there, as well as help with certain custom setups for our premium add-ons. While our support team is doing a great job in providing useful and continuous support to our customers, these custom jobs can take up a lot of time that our small team currently doesn’t have to offer. So if you’ve worked with WP RSS Aggregator before or are simply familiar with the way it works, we’d love to hear from you and possibly feature your services on our website to have you help out these customers where needed.

Say Goodbye to Spam-Bots with Goodbye Captcha

One of the latest and most successful plugins to provide anti-spam protection without the need of captcha was dubbed by the folks at WPShout as “the Akismet of online forms”, and it’s been fittingly named Goodbye Captcha.

Keep Your Site Secure & Optimize Performance with Wordfence

Security is one of the hottest topics in WordPress at the moment, and it has been for a while now. There have always been concerns with security in the WordPress world, and that’s where some of the best security plugins have come in to put people’s minds at rest. Although

WP RSS Aggregator Reaches 300,000 Downloads!

Our WP RSS Aggregator plugin has surpassed an incredible 300,000 all-time downloads, and we’re all very excited about what the future holds for us! Starting out as a simple plugin created by Jean himself for personal use, this plugin quickly got the public’s attention and continually evolved into the core plugin and string of add-ons it is today.

WordPress.org To Overhaul Recommended Hosting Page

Since 2005 WordPress.org has had a Recommended Hosting Page dedicated to this process of choosing the best host for you, but it hasn’t done a good job at all. In fact, many have complained about it for years and years with no changes ever being made. This is finally no longer true, as WordPress.org are putting the Recommended Hosting page through a complete overhaul.

Best WordPress Plugins for Selling Tickets

Selling tickets for events online is becoming more and more popular, even more so for international events such as music festivals or even WordCamps.

There are a number of plugins out there to cater for this need, ranging in price as well as functionality, depending on the e-commerce platform you’re using and the scale of your events, amongst others.

WP Engine Launch Automated Migration Plugin

Have you ever tried migrating a WordPress site manually? If you have, or know someone who has, you know how complicated, sometimes expensive and long a process it can be.

That’s why WP Engine have just launched a new plugin to significantly reduce the time it takes to fully migrate a site to their managed WordPress hosting platform – WP Engine Automated Migration.

Get a Google Rankings Boost by Using SSL

We’ve all heard how important it is to rank well with Google and how vital it is to take SEO seriously if you want your website to be a success, so what can you do to rank higher on Google’s search index? Well, there are a few things that can be done to move up the rankings, but in this post I’ll be discussing a particular aspect of them – HTTPS. It’s only been introduced last year and so far has a minimal impact on your ranking, but it’s importance is growing.

Help Scout Desk – An Alternative to Email Support

HelpScout is one of the most useful ways of running your help desk online. While being invisible to your customers, it can be very helpful to your support or customer care teams.

Sprout Apps have brought this great service into WordPress with the HelpScout Desk plugin. What it does is add the ability for your customers to create new support tickets and reply to existing ones directly from your site, without having to use email.

Easy, Good Looking Pricing Tables with ARPrice

Whether you’re selling a WordPress plugin with various license options, web hosting with multiple pricing plans, or any other product or service that has more than one pricing plan, you’ve probably needed or created some form of pricing table.