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Colin Newcomer

Colin has been using WordPress for over a decade and is on a quest to test all 60,000+ plugins at WordPress.org. He has been a Writer and Product Review Expert for WP Mayor since 2017, testing well over 150 products and services throughout that time.

Articles written by Colin Newcomer

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How to Create a Private WooCommerce Category The Easy Way

Need to create a private WooCommerce category that only authorized users have access to? With the right tools, you can make one or more categories on your store completely private.

Then, you can either give automatic access to certain user roles that you specify or give users a password that they can use to access the private category.

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Deposits For WooCommerce Review: How To Accept Deposits On WooCommerce

Need a solution that lets you accept deposits or payment plans on your WooCommerce site? This comes in helpful if you’re selling big-ticket items, using WooCommerce for bookings, or plenty of other more site-specific situations.

WooCommerce doesn’t offer that functionality by default. But with the right plugin, you can start accepting deposits in no time.

The aptly named Deposits For WooCommerce is one of those plugins. It aims to provide a solution for the affordable price of just $39.00.

7 Best Popup Plugins For WordPress To Grow Your List + More

Love them or hate them, popups, especially those that push people to subscribe to your email list, are a digital marketing tactic that is here to stay.

But if you want to dip your toes into the world of popups, you’re going to need a WordPress popup plugin to help you do it.

To help you find the plugin that’s right for your needs, I collected some of the best free and premium popup plugins for WordPress.

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How To Create A Private WooCommerce Store With WooCommerce Private Store

Not too long ago, I talked about the somewhat paradoxical idea of password protecting WooCommerce product categories to prevent unauthorized visitors from accessing specific categories at your store.

Now, I’m going to take things one step further and show you how to create an entirely private WooCommerce store. That is, instead of merely restricting access to certain categories, you’re going to learn how to restrict access to the whole shebang in one fell swoop.

How To Create A Table Of WooCommerce Products With WooCommerce Product Table

Ever wished that you could create a sortable, filterable table that contains all or some of your WooCommerce products?

If you’re running a WooCommerce store, you know that WooCommerce already comes with a dedicated shop archive page that helps you showcase individual products. But, depending on what you’re selling, that might not always be the most efficient way to showcase your products.

That is – sometimes showing WooCommerce products in a table is more effective.

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How To Password Protect WooCommerce Categories With WooCommerce Protected Categories

Most WooCommerce store owners are trying to get their products in front of as many eyeballs as possible. More traffic is always good because it means a better chance to make a sale, right?

This post isn’t for those WooCommerce store owners.

Instead, I’m going to talk about a more niche use – password protecting certain WooCommerce product categories to restrict access.

Our WordPress Content Curation Guide – What You Need to Know

So you want to take on the mammoth task of curating the web’s content into one convenient place? Nowadays, it seems like everyone and their mother has a blog, so content curation is a valuable service to the many content consumers of the world.

But what exactly is content curation? And how do you actually do it? Those are good questions. While you probably encounter content curation every day on the web, you might not know all that much about it.

That’s what I’ll get into in our big WordPress content curation guide! I’ll give you a crash course in content curation on WordPress. Let’s dig in.

The Power of RSS Feeds in WordPress

Want to up your RSS feed game? RSS feeds are valuable as much more than a tool to subscribe to other blogs’ content. You can also use them to enhance your WordPress site in a variety of ways.

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6 Content Aggregator Websites That Rock

Content aggregator websites are certainly something that you’ve run into at least a few times in your life on the web. But which are the best ones out there? What are the secret ingredients for success in the most popular content aggregator websites? In this post, I’m going to showcase 6 different examples of successful content aggregator websites. Then, at the end of the post, I’ll tell you how you can use WP RSS Aggregator to create your very own content aggregator site using WordPress.

How to Provide the Latest Medical News for Specific Conditions

Nowadays, it seems like researchers are coming up with new medical treatments just about every single day, doesn’t it? So if you want to keep up with the latest medical news, how are you supposed to be able to stay on top of those advances, especially if you’re mainly interested in a specific condition?

Quite frankly, it’s not easy to stay updated! Which is why you can do a real service to the web community by aggregating news on a specific medical condition into one, easy-to-find spot.

How to Build a Latest News Website Without Any Coding Experience

Want to create a latest news website but not sure where to start? By that, I mean a site that automatically brings in the latest news for a specific topic – no manual input required.

WordPress, our favorite CMS here at WP Mayor, is actually a perfect tool for the job…as long as you’ve got the right plugins.

How to Create a WordPress Classifieds Site Like Craigslist For Free

Looking to create a classified ads site like Craigslist or Gumtree? The massive success of those two behemoths certainly proves a market need. But how do you actually go about mimicking their functionality?

As you might notice, we’re big fans of the WordPress CMS. And as luck would have it, it’s easy to create a classified site using WordPress!