How To Set Up A Simple Membership-Only WordPress Site For Free

Learn how to set up a membership area on your website using built-in features of WordPress in this nifty step-by-step tutorial! Let’s say that you (or your client) want to set up a membership area on a WordPress site with little to no money to spend on web development (sounds familiar?) Whenever I hear someone mention that they want to …

Convesio Raises $5M to Expand Docker-Powered Hosting Platform

WordPress hosting company Convesio has raised $5 million from private investors. This funding round includes some of the company’s original investors who participated in Convesio’s 2019 Wefunder crowdfunding campaign, which brought in more than $1 million from 800+ investors. “I started Convesio because legacy hosting providers have not evolved their technology, struggled to provide high uptime, and lacked the capability …

CMS and E-Commerce Churn Data Shows WordPress Maintaining Market Lead, Shopify Gaining on WooCommerce

Rick Viscomi, one of the maintainers of the HTTP Archive, tweeted some interesting data from a report he is working on that tracks churn for different JavaScript frameworks and CMS’s over a specified period of time. He detected the changes using the open source Wappalyzer project. The first graph he shared shows shows data from 8 million websites, 12 months …

Use This Test to Find Out Which Plugins are Slowing Down Your WordPress Site

When clients come to you complaining about a slow WordPress site, or you detect issues on your own using a speed testing tool, it’s important to take action fast. For every second your website fails to fully load, it compromises the user experience and costs you conversions. Let’s say you’ve done everything you can to speed up your client’s WordPress …

How to Improve First Contentful and Meaningful Paint

You’re not optimizing your site to please a stopwatch. You’re optimizing your site for real people. So how can you determine if you’re achieving your goal? You need to include metrics such as First Contentful Paint and First Meaningful Paint in your performance assessment in order to measure how your site is performing from your user’s perspective. Both will tell …