Kevin Muldoon
Elementor is an open source drag and drop page builder for WordPress. It’s stylish, it’s easy to use, it offers many content elements, and it’s free to download. Those are all ingredients of a successful WordPress plugin. Launched in June 2016, the developers of Elementor have managed to rack up over ten thousand active users … Read more
Oberlo is a popular app for the hosted eCommerce platform Shopify. The Oberlo service lets you import products directly from the Chinese super store AliExpress. The service is a drop shipper’s dream. Within a few minutes you can import thousands of targeted products to your Shopify store and then sell items directly to your customer. … Read more
As someone who works online and loves to travel, I have always been a fan of lightweight laptops. I have purchased many lightweight computers over the years and used to regularly read blogs about the latest portable devices coming out of Japan. I use a desktop for my main work when I’m home and a … Read more
The good guys from DryIcons have kindly donated an exclusive icon set to readers of KevinMuldoon.com. What better way to start the week :) The icon set contains twenty-six search vector icons. Each icon has been designed with a different colour so you are sure to find one suitable for your project. Each icon in … Read more
Cloudways is a popular managed cloud hosting service that offer reliable hosting at fantastic prices. I first became aware of Cloudways in the Summer of 2015 when I met Cloudways founder Pere Hospital at WordCamp Europe in Seville. Pere was extremely passionate and enthuastic about his business so it has been pleasing to see his … Read more
Analysing your website traffic is an essential part of working online. The de facto standard for checking website statistics is Google Analytics. The service is free to use and provides a huge amount of useful information. There are many solutions available that help you add Google Analytics to WordPress. One such solution is Google Analytics … Read more
The other day I shared with you 10 Ways to Lazy Load Images and Videos in WordPress. Using lazy load can drastically improve page loading times and reduce bandwidth. Another key aspect of reducing the weight of images and improving website performance is to optimise your images. I have always optimised images in Photoshop before … Read more
Website page loading times are greatly affected by the weight of images on a page since each image on a page has to be downloaded from your website server to the visitor’s computer. The more images there are on a page, the higher your total page size will be; which in turn means that your … Read more
WP Engine is a popular managed WordPress hosting service that boasts over 50,000 customers across 120 countries in the world. I have spoken about WP Engine a lot over the last month; most recently in my chat with David Vogelpohl of WP Engine. A managed WordPress hosting solution such as WP Engine offers many things … Read more
One week ago David Vogelpohl from WP Engine kindly took the time to speak to me via a conference call. The discussion was positive and informative. One of the reasons that I wanted to chat to someone from WP Engine was because I had many concerns about the company in the past. I touched about … Read more