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What is a VPS Web Hosting Control Panel

What is a VPS Web Hosting Control Panel?

Janessa Tran

Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting may be expensive compared to shared hosting but offers greater flexibility. These plans are a web developer’s dream come true, customizable in every way, from Operating systems (OS) to specific applications and frameworks deployed.

Yet this flexibility comes at the cost of VPS hosting requiring more technical skill to handle. To overcome this, we look towards the web hosting control panel, which can ease many tasks significantly.

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Top Plugins for Gutenberg in 2021 - the most comprehensive review

Top 7 Plugins to Add Extra Blocks for Gutenberg [2021]

Janessa Tran

As you may all know, Gutenberg is now not just a WordPress editor. Recently, WordPress has the ambition of making Gutenberg also a page builder, a useful tool to build up a WordPress website. Following this tendency, web developers have created numerous plugins, added many blocks, layouts, settings,... to satisfy the demands of developers and website owners. Using these plugins along with themes made for Gutenberg will definitely help users and developers create websites, landing pages, or any page as well as publish posts at ease.

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Top Free Hosting For Developers: Pros and Cons

Top Free Hosting For Developers: Pros and Cons

Janessa Tran

With the rapid development of the Internet, hosting services have mushroomed and the competition among them is fiercer! Users tend to buy hosting that is affordable, has good security, high speed, good service, and so on. As for developers, guys, even girls working with computers year-round, what kind of hosting is really suitable for them, and whether regular hosting has good support for developers?

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Review Best 7 WordPress Themes for Gutenberg for 2021

Review Best 7 WordPress Themes for Gutenberg for 2021

Janessa Tran

Gutenberg first appeared a few years ago and was said to be the future of page editing in WordPress. And now, the latest version - Gutenberg 9.7 has just been released and proven that it’s not only the future of page editing but also more than that. With Gutenberg and a starter WordPress theme - free or paid, you can easily build your website with many powerful blocks.

So, we came up with an idea to review some of the most popular Gutenberg-compatible WordPress themes you can use as a starter theme.

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gumroad vs fastspring

Gumroad vs. FastSpring: Which E-commerce Platform is Best for Selling WordPress Plugins?

Anh Tran

It's no secret that we used Gumroad to sell Meta Box extensions and then switched to FastSpring a few months ago. Both e-commerce platforms are great and easy to integrate with WordPress. There are some pros and cons of each platform that might be suitable in different cases, which I'm going to reveal in this post.

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The Detailed Review of Cloudways - A High Performance WordPress Hosting

The Detailed Review of Cloudways - A High Performance WordPress Hosting

Janessa Tran

Hosting is a popular topic when it comes to WordPress sites. Many users often find it difficult to choose the right hosting solution for their website and sometimes it could become a tedious task. The reason is simple, you have a lot of options available out there and you can’t test them all.

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A Comprehensive Review of Top 4 Translation Plugins

A Comprehensive Review of Top 4 Translation Plugins

Janessa Tran

A multilingual website may help people run their business more successfully and reach more customers from all over the world. To create a multilingual website and reach that target, the common choice is using a translation plugin to save time and effort. But there’re many plugins out there so choosing the suitable one seems to be not easy. Among them, the most popular choices are the freemium plugins: Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot; and the premium one: WPML.

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