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WordPress Black Friday And Cyber Monday 2020 Deals And Coupons

If you were looking to build a business website, start an online store, or simply improve your existing website, there is no better time than

November 26, 2020 2 Comments

3 Best WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping Plugins (Free & Paid)

So, you’ve just launched your first WordPress eCommerce website and keep hearing about what a tremendous difference WooCommerce table rate shipping can make to the

November 26, 2020 No Comments

How to Set Up CloudFlare for WordPress – The Complete Guide

Page speed and security should be two issues on the mind of every WordPress site owner. We wrote a huge post about WordPress and page speed back in 2014. And since then, page speed has only gotten more important. Users want sites to load fast – 30% of people want sites to load in under one second. And if your site doesn’t, they’re probably going to go somewhere else.

November 25, 2020 6 Comments

How to Optimize Cumulative Layout Shift on WordPress (CLS) – Core Web Vitals

Struggling with a bad Cumulative Layout Shift on WordPress? Cumulative Layout Shift, or CLS for short, is one of three metrics in Google’s new Core

November 24, 2020 No Comments

23+ Best WordPress Gutenberg Editor Blocks Plugins: New Content Blocks

The WordPress Gutenberg editor brings a new block-based approach to creating content in WordPress. Rather than a single unified text box like the classic TinyMCE

November 23, 2020 7 Comments

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress 5.6 Release Candidate

Hey, WordPress fans. This week, WordPress 5.6 gets ready for prime time with its first release candidate. The official release is currently scheduled for December

November 20, 2020 No Comments

5 Best WordPress Podcast Hosting Services (Including Free Options)

Searching for the best WordPress podcast hosting? There are lots of great WordPress podcasting plugins, which we’ve detailed on this blog. However, a podcasting plugin

November 20, 2020 No Comments

3 Best WordPress Security Plugins to Lock Down Your Site

No matter the size of your website, never underestimate the importance of using at least one of the best WordPress security plugins to keep that

November 16, 2020 8 Comments

The Best Real Estate Plugins for WordPress – Listing Sites and More

If there’s one thing you need to know when launching your new real estate business, it’s that simply using the best real estate plugins for

November 14, 2020 1 Comment

Weekly WordPress News: Envato Surpasses $1 Billion in Community Earnings

Hey, WordPress fans. This week, Envato, the company behind the popular ThemeForest and CodeCanyon marketplaces, officially passed $1 billion in community earnings since its launch

November 13, 2020 No Comments

WordPress SMTP Tutorial: How to Configure WordPress to Use SMTP Server

Having trouble with WordPress emails not sending or ending up in recipients’ spam folders? Setting up a WordPress SMTP server might be just the ticket.

November 12, 2020 3 Comments

20 WordPress Coming Soon Themes and Plugins

The way we make websites has come a long way in the last few decades. A million miles away from the countless ‘under construction’ gifs

November 11, 2020 17 Comments

Weekly WordPress News: Automatic WordPress Update Blues

Howdy, WordPress friends. Last week, there was a problem with the WordPress auto-update system, which caused some sites to be mistakenly updated to an alpha

November 6, 2020 No Comments

Kadence Theme Review: Does it live up to the hype?

While new themes are getting released every day, finding a WordPress theme that is simple, effective, and lightweight is quite hard. One of the newest

November 3, 2020 1 Comment

Mediabay Review: Add Folders to the WordPress Media Library

Ever wished that you could organize the WordPress Media Library with folders? As your site grows, it can be hard to keep track of all

November 2, 2020 1 Comment

Weekly WordPress News: Halloween Sales + WordPress 5.5.2

Hey, WordPress fans. There was a lot going on this week… First off, WordPress has a new security release, WordPress 5.5.2 – you should apply

October 30, 2020 No Comments

Sugar Calendar Review: Lightweight, Extensible WordPress Calendar Plugin

Looking for a WordPress events calendar plugin that doesn’t bog you down with features? Sugar Calendar might be just what you need. It’s a lightweight,

October 30, 2020 No Comments

TaskHive Theme Review: Launch a Service Marketplace Website With WordPress

TaskHive is a brand new WordPress theme that makes it easy to create a service marketplace-style websites like Fiverr and TaskRabbit. If you ask, the

October 27, 2020 No Comments

How to Connect Your WordPress Media Library to Google Drive

Looking for an easy way to connect the WordPress Media Library to Google Drive? In this article, I’m going to show you a simple way

October 27, 2020 No Comments

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress 5.6 Beta and Loginizer Vulnerability

Hey, WordPress friends. This week, we get our first look at WordPress 5.6 in the first beta release. However, there are no block-based widgets, which

October 23, 2020 No Comments

7 Best WordPress Maintenance Services: Monthly Or One-Time Fixes

Never underestimate what a big difference a quality WordPress maintenance service can make to the success of your website. Whether you’re running a predominantly online

October 22, 2020 11 Comments

How to Set Up WordPress Lazy Loading (Native + Plugins)

Speed is key on the Internet. Whether you want more conversions, more search traffic, or more satisfied users, it pays to optimize your WordPress site for speed. But if you’ve already checked off the big boxes like using a CDN and optimizing your image sizes, how can you eek out even more speed? One way is to implement lazy loading for your images.

October 22, 2020 4 Comments

WordPress Lottie Tutorial: Best Plugins to Use Lottie on WordPress

Looking for an easy way to add Lottie animations to your WordPress site? Or confused by what the heck a Lottie is and why you

October 20, 2020 2 Comments

Weekly WordPress News: WPBakery Vulnerability + WooCommerce 4.6

Hey, WordPress friends. This week was fairly quiet in terms of WordPress news. Most notably, there was a vulnerability in the popular WPBakery Page Builder

October 16, 2020 No Comments

7+ Best WordPress Podcast Plugins for All Budgets

Searching for the best WordPress podcast plugins? It seems like everyone and their mother has their own podcast these days. Seriously, I’m just waiting for

October 14, 2020 2 Comments

10 Best WordPress Forum Plugins for Discussion Boards

Looking for the best WordPress plugin to create a forum or a discussion board on your WordPress site? Discussion boards and forums can help you

October 13, 2020 5 Comments

Weekly WordPress News: Cloudflare Launches WordPress Optimization Product

Hey, WordPress friends. Last week, we told you about Cloudflare’s new web analytics tool. This week, Cloudflare launched something even cooler – affordable optimization specifically

October 9, 2020 No Comments

What Is WP-Cron? Plus How to Disable WP-Cron in 2020

Wondering what WP-Cron is, whether or not your site needs it, and/or how to disable WP-Cron (I guess that’s kind of a spoiler to the

October 9, 2020 No Comments

WooCommerce Product Filter Review: Flexible Ajax Product Filters

If you have a WooCommerce store, you need to make it easy for your shoppers to find the products that they’re interested in from your

October 6, 2020 No Comments

Rocket Review: Managed WordPress Hosting on the Edge of the Cloud

Searching for the best managed WordPress hosting for your WordPress site? In our Rocket review, we’re going to take a look at a brand new

October 5, 2020 1 Comment

Weekly WordPress News: Cloudflare Launches Web Analytics Tool & Elementor 3.0 Review

Hey, WordPress friends. The biggest news this week is not WordPress-specific, though it’s definitely something of interest to WordPress users. Cloudflare, the popular free CDN/security

October 2, 2020 No Comments

10 Best Email Customizer Plugins for WooCommerce

12 Best Email Customizer Plugins for WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the best e-commerce plugins available in the WordPress ecosystem. You can setup impressive stores using WooCommerce and can customize it the way you

October 1, 2020 4 Comments

15 Best Amazon Affiliate Plugins for Amazon Associates Members

Are you wondering how you can improve your Amazon affiliate site and take it to the next level? As an affiliate marketer, the whole process

October 1, 2020 No Comments

RunCloud Review/Tutorial: How to Host WordPress With RunCloud

Interested in using RunCloud to host your WordPress site in the cloud with a provider like DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, and more? Cloud VPS hosting offers

September 30, 2020 1 Comment

A Guide to the Best WordPress Table Plugins for Adding Tables to your Posts and Pages

Using WordPress table plugins may not be the only option out there for adding tables to your posts and pages but, if you ask us,

September 28, 2020 4 Comments

Weekly WordPress News: Sneak Peek of the Twenty Twenty-One Theme

Hey, WordPress friends. This week, we got the first sneak peek of Twenty Twenty-One, the next default theme for WordPress. It looks pretty great, especially

September 25, 2020 No Comments

WPBricks Review: Extend the WordPress Block Editor With New Blocks and Templates

One of the great things about the new WordPress block editor is that developers can hook into it to add their own blocks and templates/block

September 24, 2020 1 Comment

WooCommerce Product Add-Ons Ultimate Review: Best Product Add-On Plugin?

Looking for a solution for WooCommerce product add-ons? Product add-ons give you a lot of flexibility for letting shoppers customize your products. You can offer

September 23, 2020 No Comments

Master Addons for Elementor Review: New Features, Widgets & Templates

Here at WPLift, we use and recommend the Elementor page builder plugin. One of the (many) things that makes Elementor so popular is the fact

September 21, 2020 No Comments

Weekly WordPress News: GoDaddy Acquires SkyVerge

Hey, WordPress fans. This week, there was another big acquisition in the WooCommerce space. GoDaddy acquired SkyVerge, the company behind over 60 different WooCommerce add-ons.

September 18, 2020 No Comments

The Best WordPress Plugins to Add & Manage Ads on Your Blog

Used well, the best WordPress advertising management plugins can prove to be invaluable, taking the hassle and hard work out of a process which, let’s

September 17, 2020 5 Comments

6 Best WordPress Quiz Plugins (2020): Serious or Viral

Searching for the best WordPress quiz plugin? Whether you want to create fun, viral Buzzfeed-style quizzes or you want to create more serious quizzes, you

September 16, 2020 No Comments

Weekly WordPress News: Blocks Instead of Widgets?

Hey, WordPress friends. This week, Gutenberg 8.9 (the plugin version) is out with a new block-based approach to widgets. Beyond that, Meta Box published an

September 11, 2020 No Comments

Filebird Review: Add Folders to the WordPress Media Library

Struggling to organize your WordPress Media Library? When you first launch your site, it’s easy to keep track of all your image and media files

September 10, 2020 2 Comments

How to Use Shopify With WordPress (Display Products on WordPress)

Want to use Shopify with WordPress? That is, display Shopify products on WordPress? In a lot of posts, you see people compare WordPress and WooCommerce

September 2, 2020 No Comments

Short Video Gallery Plugin Review: Like Instagram or TikTok, but for WordPress

Looking for a better alternative to TikTok or Instagram Stories for your WordPress site? Short Video Gallery is a new plugin from Firework that makes

September 1, 2020 No Comments

How to Create a Delivery Schedule in WooCommerce (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

As a restaurant owner, you might be looking to add local or scheduled delivery to boost your WooCommerce sales. However, using 3rd-party services like Uber

August 27, 2020 No Comments