Looking to get started selling with WordPress?
As the world’s most popular way to build a website, WordPress spoils you for choice when it comes to options for selling products, content, time, or anything else.
If you want to create an entire eCommerce store, you have plenty of tools at your disposal. But you can also get more focused and create a simple form for one-off payments or donations. Or, you can even build a recurring revenue base and sell content with a membership plugin or eCourse platform.
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Whoa! It’s a great time to be alive seeing as you are witnessing the future of WordPress predicted at the State of The Word 2017 unfold right before your very eyes.
By the way, before anything else, hand up if you’ve taken Gutenberg for a test drive. Many of you, I see. At the time of writing, Gutenberg is still in beta mode, but the plan is to release it as part of WordPress 5.0 in the near future. Read More
Having a fast and always available WordPress site can be one of the most important factors for your business. If you’re tired of hassling with slow hosting or battling constant downtime, I encourage you to check out Kinsta.
Kinsta offers premium managed WordPress hosting, powered by Google Cloud Platform and their premium global network tier to ensure low latency and lightning fast load times. Big brands such as Ubisoft, Intuit, and GE all rely on Kinsta’s infrastructure, which easily handles thousands of concurrent users without breaking a sweat.
Many customers report over 45% speed increases by simply moving to Kinsta. They have plans starting at $30/month. Some of their hosting platform advanced features include:
- 13 global data centers including USA, London, Sydney, Singapore, and Mumbai
- SSH and WP-CLI support
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- Server-level caching, resource isolation, and auto-scaling
- PHP 7, 7.1, and HHVM
- Automatic daily backups and one-click staging environments
- 24×7 support from WordPress developers
- In-depth analytics to help troubleshoot performance issues on your site
Kinsta doesn’t typically offer discount codes or other promotions, so I am pleased to announce that starting today, you can get 30% off of your first payment in case of purchasing a monthly subscription.
This week I’d like to introduce you to Google Maps Widget Pro, an advanced Google Maps plugin for WordPress. It has a popular free plugin of the WordPress plugin directory with over 100,000 active installs that has been developed over 4 years continuously.
The Pro version comes with a whole bunch of features, including:
- Unlimited maps and pins per map
- Custom pins, map styles & lightbox skins
- Highly configurable maps and lightboxes
- Premium support
Colin Newcomer on September 18, 2018 
