Disclosure - How We Work
WP Mayor is brought to you by the RebelCode team. Ever since the early 2000s, our team has been involved with the web in one way or another, developing and honing skills that continue to help us till today.
How We Make Recommendations
WP Mayor was launched in 2010. ItΒ began as a way for us to document what we were learning as we ran a WordPress development agency building websites for clients all around the world.Β
We wanted to keep track of the products and services we use, so we thought we’d make that information public to help others like us.
This is what kept us honest and transparent from day one. Although our agency no longer operates, our philosophy remains the same.
Every product and service featured on WP Mayor has been manually tested by our team at one point or another. Having been involved with WordPress for over a decade, we’ve had plenty of time to understand what makes a product worthy of a recommendation.
Every recommendation is based on our team’s extensive experience and without bias. You can read more about this below.
Our In-Depth Analysis Methodology
At WP Mayor, our in-depth analysis methodology is designed to ensure trustworthiness and detail.
It encompasses rigorous manual testing by our experienced team, focusing on usability, performance, support, and overall quality.
We evaluate products based on real-world use and our extensive WordPress experience. This approach, reflecting our commitment to honesty and transparency, ensures our reviews and recommendations are genuinely helpful to our readers.
Products and services that we consider worthy are published on our website and their reviews are given the WP Mayor approval badge, as you can see here below:
Advertising on WP Mayor
You will find occasional ads on the WP Mayor website. We only accept advertisements from companies who provide top quality products and customer service, so you can rest assured that even though an ad is paid for, it’s still a product we would recommend.
The paid aspect is what helps us keep the lights on throughout the year. As a completely self-funded project, WP Mayor relies on such income to pay our team of writers and editors as we continue to produce quality content for our readers on a weekly basis.
Affiliate Partnerships
In various articles on WP Mayor, we make use of affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these affiliate links, we earn a commission at no additional cost to you. The price you pay remains exactly the same and the commission is paid solely by the affiliate partner.
In some cases, we take it a step further. We collaborate with product and service owners to bring you exclusive offers that you won’t find anywhere else.
The relationships that have come about through these affiliate partnerships are what allow us to continue learning more about the products we recommend.
You’ll also notice that every time we use an affiliate link, it is backed by a description or comparison that provides you with insight into why that recommendation is being made. This is based on our experts’ research and testing. Our team of experts have decades of experience in the web development and WordPress industries.
Committed to Delivering Value
To elaborate on what we’ve mentioned above, every recommendation we make, whether the link is clean, part of a paid ad, or an affiliate relationship, is one that we believe in and stand behind.
The financial aspect might impact when a product or service is being tested and featured, but it does not impact the validity and genuine nature of our recommendations.
So much so that we occasionally review a product that we know would not meet our standards. The few times that we have tested a product and it hasn’t been up to scratch, we have passed on our recommendations to the owners and developers of that product. It is then up to their team to decide whether to work on improvements based on our recommendations and come back to us in the future, or to simply refuse to have our review published.
Since our paid product review service is based on providing as much value to the product owner as the reader, the final publishing decision comes down to the product or service owner.
We also recommend and link to products and services that we have no affiliation or partnership with. Many links across our website are purely based on what we think is the best tool for the job, without any potential financial gain to be had on our end.
If you ever come across a recommendation that doesn’t look right, it may have not been updated in a while, so please do comment on the article to let us know and our team will look into it right away.
Thank you for trusting in and supporting WP Mayor.