A true communication tool with an informative purpose, the newsletter still has a bright future ahead of it. However, it is not about writing and sending a message to your contact list. The goal is still to have your email opened, read and clicked by your contacts. To avoid that sadly falling into ...
Mailchimp vs. Sendinblue: which is the best email marketing tool in 2023?
Today, the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns is no longer to be proven. Whether you are an entrepreneur, a freelancer, or a marketing director of a multinational or a start-up, you will have to choose among all the platforms so that each newsletter hits your target. Mailchimp and ...
Thirsty Affiliates review: the best WordPress plugin to manage and track your affiliate links
Since we started blogging on our travel blog or this tech blog, affiliate marketing has always been our favorite way to make money from our content. If you've just come across this blog post you probably know what affiliate marketing is. So I'm going to skip the basics (maybe one day we'll create a ...
How to write an ebook and sell it online: our complete guide
You want to create your first ebook and you don't know where to start? Are you wondering about the format, the layout, the sales platform or how to price and promote your digital product? Then don't move, you're in the right place! On our travel blog novo-monde we have published 3 ebooks over the ...
Layout and Design: create your PDF ebook with Canva
In 2013 we released our very first ebook "How to prepare your round the world trip" and at that time we had opted for Word to realize the layout. I might as well explain to you that on many aspects the rendering was quite "hazardous" (you will find screenshots of this old version in this article ...
Why and how to backup your WordPress site (the automatic way)
If there is one important thing on a WordPress site that is too often left aside, it is backups. I know that at the beginning, many people are already struggling with themes and plugins, trying to have a functional WP site… However, once your WordPress site/blog is doing more or less what you expect ...
Understanding and improving Google’s Core Web Vitals on your WordPress site
If you're interested in SEO or use Google Search Console to check your pages rankings, you've probably already seen or heard about Core Web Vitals. Core Web Vitals are new metrics introduced and used by Google to measure the quality of the user experience on your site. But the main reason why you ...
Gutenberg WP plugin development: wp.data module and the WordPress REST API
When I created my Novo-Map WordPress plugin, I always found the information I needed fairly easily on the web. WordPress is such a popular tool that when I got stuck on something, I would usually just google it a little to easily find an answer to my question. But the arrival of Gutenberg is ...
Canva Pro Vs Canva free: our review
Today I wanted to talk to you about a tool that we have been using very actively for more than 4 years now to create all our visual creations for the blog (but not only). For almost 2 years I became familiar with the Canva tool in its free version and in 2018 I decided to switch to Pro by paying a ...
The best WordPress plugins that we install on most of our WP sites
As you may have noticed, there are a lot of WordPress plugins available (more than 58'000 at the end of 2020 to be exact). This abundance of plugins is of course the strength but also the weakness of the WordPress CMS. On the one hand, if you are looking for a feature for your WP site, there is ...
Create custom Gutenberg blocks for WordPress with the Lazy blocks plugin
As I told you in my previous blog post, I have finally switched to the new WP text editor also known as Gutenberg. This editor is clearly the future of WordPress (whether you like it or not) and will soon be more than just a text editor. For example, what you still know as Widgets will soon be ...
Moving from the WP Classic Editor to Gutenberg: my experience
Gutenberg is the new text editor for WordPress, and its release (with WordPress 5.0) has been the talk of the town, to say the least! I had already written (in summer 2018) a blog post about Gutenberg to explain in detail how it works and if it would break your website ;) (by the way, if you don't ...