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

Jupiter X WordPress Theme

Jupiter X Theme Review: A Flexible Theme Powered By Elementor

The original Jupiter theme is one of the best-selling themes ever at ThemeForest, with well over 100,000 sales and a 4.75-star rating on over 4,500 reviews.

Jupiter X, a theme from Artbees,is a makeover of that popular theme that aims to let you customize your entire WordPress site to create a website that’s unique to you.

Uncanny automator review

Uncanny Automator Review: Automate WordPress Like Zapier (Or With Zapier!)

Have you ever heard of tools like Zapier or IFTTT? Both of them make your life a lot easier by letting you “connect” different apps together and automate various actions. For example, you could use Zapier to automatically create a new Trello card for each new email in Gmail.

Uncanny Automator brings that same type of automation to your WordPress site. You can either “connect” different WordPress plugins together. Or, you can connect plugins to any one of the 1,000+ apps at Zapier. Or, you can even do both at the same time, which is where things start getting really cool!

WordPress.com Business Plan Review: A Worthy Self-Hosted Alternative?

If you’ve ever read a WordPress.org vs WordPress.com comparison post, you know that one of the common complaints against WordPress.com is that it’s not “real” WordPress.

That all changed in August 2017 when WordPress.com announced that Business plan users would be able to install their own themes and plugins, putting that tier of plans somewhere between the WordPress.com of old and self-hosted WordPress.

So…should you consider ditching your self-hosted WordPress site and hopping on one of WordPress.com’s Business plans?

wp speed of light

WP Speed Of Light Review: It Made My Test Site 48% Faster!

People always tell you that you need your WordPress site to load fast. But…how do you actually make your WordPress site load fast? When you see those big lists of “75+ ways to speed up WordPress”, it’s easy to feel like WordPress performance is too complicated for you.

WP Speed Of Light is a plugin that tries to simplify WordPress performance by giving you an all-in-one solution to speed up your site. It’s simple enough for a total beginner to use, while still giving more advanced users detailed options.