Kevin Muldoon
Google Analytics remains the most popular analytical service for website owners. It is a powerful service and is 100% free to use. By inserting a small piece of code into your website, you can get a complete understanding of your website visitors. In addition to traffic stats, you can also track events, conversions, sales, and … Read more
Multi-Vendor plugins such as WC Vendors, Dokan, and WC Marketplace, can be used to transform your WordPress website into an eCommerce marketplace where thousands of vendors sell products. A few weeks ago I showed you the best solutions for creating a WordPress marketplace in my article “How to Create a Multi-Vendor WordPress Marketplace“. I highly … Read more
Form plugins are an essential part of every WordPress website. They can be used to create contact forms, order forms, registration forms, login forms, surveys, quizzes, and more. One of the latest contact form solutions on the market is WS Form Pro. It is a premium form solution that boasts many advanced features such as … Read more
Multi-vendor marketplaces such as Etsy and eBay allow multiple sellers to sell through one centralised marketplace. It can be hugely profitable. By allowing others to sell through your marketplace, you can offer offer a huge number of products and expand your business quickly. These marketplaces are attractive to vendors (the sellers) as they do not … Read more
Throughout December I addressed multiple hosting and website related issues. This includes migrating many websites from a dedicated server on OVH to Vultr, moving this website to Wetopi, and cancelling my VaultPress subscription. I had used VaultPress for several years to handle external website backups, however their service has went downhill over the last few … Read more
Digital marketplaces have made it simple for anyone to create stylish content and professional looking promotional material. I have been buying digital content such as logos, themes, backgrounds, and website designs, since I started working online in 2000. In most digital stores, what you see is what you get. Therefore, if you download a logo … Read more
2018 was a year that I devoted most of my energy to video. This was necessary in order to establish the two YouTube channels I run, though I admittedly did enjoy spending more time recording videos after years of writing every day. A break from writing was long overdue. I had been writing so long … Read more
The managed WordPress hosting market is extremely competitive. It originally started out as a niche service, however over the last few years we have seen established shared hosting and VPS hosting companies target the WordPress market (SiteGround are a good example of this). As someone who has been using cPanel since the early 2000s and … Read more
Changing your website hosting setup is rarely an enjoyable experience; particularly if you adopt a hands-on approach and deal with it all yourself. The other day I explained my disappointment with VaultPress. I had used the VaultPress backup service since it launched in 2010 and their one-click restore feature should have meant my blog’s migration … Read more
VaultPress is a premium backup and security service from Automattic. It was not the first backup solution for WordPress, but for me it was the first one that got things right with hourly backups and one-click restores. When it comes to backups, I do not take any chances. Any website owner will tell you that … Read more