Dave Warfel 
StellarWP is part of the Liquid Web family of brands. It was created to house all of Liquid Web’s WordPress products, which include quite an impressive list of plugins, as well as the very popular Kadence theme. StellarWP’s Black Friday sale is happening now, and you can get all of their products for the best …
In September of 2019, two Michigan-based web hosting firms, Liquid Web & Nexcess, joined forces. Liquid Web has put a huge focus on the WordPress hosting space in recent years, specifically with their managed WooCommerce hosting product. Nexcess is known more for its managed Magento platform, but more broadly, all of its cloud-based ecommerce hosting …
On paper, Nexcess’ WooCommerce hosting platform looks amazing. Optimized performance & $2,000+ worth of plugins included. But is it the best WooCommerce hosting platform out there?
A handpicked collection of Halloween deals on only the best WordPress themes & plugins.
Did you know Google PageSpeed Insights doesn’t actually test your total page load time?! Yes, you heard that right. The web’s most popular performance testing tool doesn’t even care how long it takes your page to load from start to finish. Did you also know that the score you get from PageSpeed Insights is based …
Looking for your WordPress user ID? Need to find the ID of another subscriber, student, or customer on your WordPress site? It’s easy, and I’ll show you two different ways to do it. No plugin (great for quick, one-time ID finding) Simple plugin (great if you need IDs often) The plugin method will also make …
WP Engine is arguably the most well-known names in WordPress hosting. They have received several rounds of funding from outside investors, and they spend a lot of that on marketing. It’s also worth noting that I don’t speak about their product lightly, as I was a WP Engine customer for a little over 4 years. …
An inside look at SiteGround’s Starter plugin, a WordPress on-boarding setup wizard aimed at eliminating confusion for WordPress beginners. Is it helpful, or just something you’ll skip over?
Yoast SEO 8.0 added Gutenberg support & I took it for a spin. Allow me to share some thoughts.
In August 2018, SiteGround released a new automated WordPress migration tool targeted at small business owners looking to switch their hosting to SiteGround (read why I switched to SiteGround from WP Engine in 2017). At first glance, it looks super-easy to use. And I’ve used ~10 different WordPress migration plugins & tools over the years, and …