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

Reviewing the Specular WordPress Theme

Specular is a multi-purpose business theme from Codeless that not only offers a large variety of ready-made demos, but also lets you customize the theme before purchasing it.

That’s right, you can customize any demo you’d like, in any way you’d like, without any coding skills, and have your brand spanking new WordPress site up and running in no time.

Top Themes & Plugins for Your ‘Coming Soon’ & ‘Under Construction’ Sites

When setting up a new website, many individuals and companies like to use a ‘Coming Soon’ or an ‘Under Construction’ page or plugin for their site while it is still being developed. This not only lets you put your website out there earlier, but also creates a buzz around the launch of your exciting, new website.

These are typically simple one page sites, showing a countdown to the launch of the website, and perhaps some information regarding what the website is for, and so on. Whatever the case, an attractive page of the sorts is a great way to keep your users interested and coming back to see the final result.

From simple and sleek designs, to colourful & outrageous pages, you can find whatever type of page you’d like with WordPress themes and plugins.

Getting to Grips with the WordPress World

Hey there, I’m Mark, a contributor for WP Mayor and a WordPress enthusiast from the tiny mediterranean island of Malta.

I was only introduced to WordPress just last year when I was asked to take over the upkeep of my field hockey club’s website. Little did I know that this trivial introduction to WordPress would lead me to the job I have today.

Fancy Product Designer Review: Your WooCommerce Custom Product Builder

With the popularity of online stores growing rapidly, the introduction of customization tools has enhanced this experience and added an extra dimension to what you can buy (or sell). One of WordPress’ leading plugins for e-commerce is certainly WooCommerce, and in this post I’ll be showing you an additional plugin that can add this customization capability to your WooCommerce products – Fancy Product Designer.

Easy WP Theme Customizations Using CSS Hero

Every WordPress theme has its own styling through CSS, and no matter what theme you find and use, there are always going to be changes you’d like to make to make your site more unique.

Making such changes would usually entail some work with code, but with the advances we’re seeing in WordPress and in particular WordPress plugins, we’re finding new ways to make these changes without the need to touch any code at all.

One of the WordPress plugins that makes modifying your site’s CSS an easy and painless process is CSS Hero.

Customize Your Genesis Child Theme With Design Palette Pro

The Genesis Framework has become a very popular choice for many WordPress site owners, and with this increase in popularity has come an explosion of child themes.

However, no matter how many child themes exist you always want to make some changes to the look of your site. Now the only way you could do this was through code, and I’m sure many of you reading this either aren’t familiar with code at all or just don’t fancy playing around with it.

Well, here’s a simple solution. Design Palette Pro.

Best WordPress Themes for Education

One of the fields in which WordPress use is growing is educational systems ranging from preschools to universities. Here are our best themes for education.

The Best WordPress Church Themes & Templates

When it comes to running a website for a church or similar organization it is essential that you find a way to make the management of the site as easy and efficient as can be to keep up with the information-intensive world around church sites. WordPress does the job perfectly and the new church themes surfacing on the web are a joy to behold. Their features range from basic blogs and events pages to sermons and donation options. Here is a list I compiled of some of the top church themes from 2021.

Free & Paid (Legal) Images for Your Blog

The issue of copyright and images has been a long-standing one ever since you could just search for any image you want on a search engine and copy it into your blog post.