Author: Colin Newcomer

Colin has been using WordPress for over a decade and is on a quest to test all 60,000+ plugins at WordPress.org. He was a writer and product review expert at WP Mayor from 2017 to 2014, testing well over 150 products and services throughout that time.

Articles written by Colin Newcomer

KeyCDN Image Processing: Optimize and Manipulate Images On-the-Fly

In this post, I’ll be taking a look at a service that helps you do just that – KeyCDN’s new image processing functionality.

If you’re not familiar, KeyCDN helps you speed up your site by delivering your content from a network of servers all around the world (more on this second). With the new image processing feature, KeyCDN can also help you dynamically optimize and manipulate the images you serve via KeyCDN on-the-fly.

Premium Addons for Elementor

Premium Addons for Elementor Review: 50+ Innovative Widgets and Add-ons

Premium Addons for Elementor comes in both a free and premium version and adds 50+ new Elementor widgets and add-ons, plus a variety of templates. It’ll have you embedding pricing tables, image layers, charts, content switchers, plus a whole lot more.

In my Premium Addons for Elementor review, I’ll share more about what exactly you get with the plugin. Then, I’ll take you hands-on and show you some of my favorite new widgets and features.

CMS2CMS

CMS2CMS Review: Migrate Your Site from One CMS to Another

CMS2CMS, which we’ll be reviewing today, helps you migrate your website between different CMS platforms. Rather than having to manually move your content over, you can use CMS2CMS to move between an array of different platforms, taking along as much of your content as possible.

Media Cloud Review: Offload WordPress to Cloud Storage (S3 + More)

As your WordPress site grows, you might be looking for a more effective, affordable way to manage your site’s images, videos, and other media files.

Media Cloud is a WordPress plugin that lets you offload your media files to cloud storage providers like Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, and others. You can also offload other files, like your site’s CSS and JavaScript, and speed up file delivery with a CDN.

NotificiationX review

NotificationX Review: Add FOMO-Inducing Notifications to WordPress

Social proof and FOMO (fear of missing out) are two popular marketing strategies to boost your conversion rates and move your visitors to action.

NotificationX is a freemium WordPress plugin that helps bring those two marketing strategies to your WordPress site, with eye-catching notification alerts for new sales, comments, reviews, and more.

WP Admin Pages pro

WP Admin Pages Pro Review: Create a Custom WordPress Dashboard

If you’re building websites for clients, you want them to have the best experience possible. And beyond building a great-looking site for them on the front-end, that also means creating a user-friendly backend dashboard experience for them, too.

WP Admin Pages Pro is a plugin that helps you do just that, giving you a variety of ways to create an improved, custom dashboard for your clients (or for your own website, too!).

WP Media Folder: Amazon S3 WordPress Integration

As your WordPress site grows, so will your site’s media library. Files that were easy to find at the beginning can quickly get lost once you start having hundreds or thousands of files.

Basically, it’s tough to stay organized as your site has more and more files…

WP Media Folder is a plugin that can help you change that by adding a folder system to the regular WordPress media library, much like the folders you use to manage your computer’s files.

WP Cerber Security Review: A WordPress Plugin to Keep Your Site Safe

A security breach at your WordPress site is a nightmare scenario – all your hard work, gone up in a puff of smoke (or, more likely, a puff of pharmacy SEO link spam or weird redirects).

In today’s WP Cerber Security review, I’m going to take a look at a freemium WordPress plugin that aims to greatly decrease the chances that such a breach happens to you.