Leo Koo

I built my first website in 1999 and many other sites after. After building a number of sites for friends and family, I decided to pick up web development professionally and graduated from NextAcademy, a Malaysian bootcamp. I've worked for a WordPress plugin company before working in the Malaysian Startup scene as a web developer. Nowadays, I build and maintain turnkey and bespoke sites. I also review WordPress plugins and digital marketing tools while running this site and the WPStarters Facebook Group. Do swing by and say hi :)

WPDeveloper Launches Agency Developer Lifetime Plan

1st July 20201st July 2020 by Leo Koo

If you are a WordPress enthusiast or a WordPress developer working in an agency, agency developer lifetime plans are things to look out for. Especially if they feature solid companies with solid products with a proven track record. One such companies is WPDeveloper. WPDeveloper is best known for its Essential Addons for Elementor plugin, which …

BuddyBoss Anniversary Lifetime Deal

25th June 202025th June 2020 by Leo Koo

BuddyBoss Lifetime Deal Anniversary 2020

If you have been looking forward for one last lifetime deal from BuddyBoss, you can grab yourself their final lifetime license via the BuddyBoss Anniversary Lifetime Deal. BuddyBoss is a WordPress theme that sits on top of BuddyPress and WordPress. However, through the years Boss Media has invested heavily in making BuddyBoss a standalone product …

Simple Feature Requests Lifetime Deal

3rd June 20203rd June 2020 by Leo Koo

If you run a product company or value feedback from others, feedback tools are notoriously expensive. Often used by SaaS and WordPress companies to understand what their users want, it was previously out of reach for many smaller software companies. Well, not anymore. James Kemp, the founder of IconicWP, a highly respected WooCommerce extensions store, …

Elementor Pro Birthday Sale

3rd June 20203rd June 2020 by Leo Koo

Elementor is one of the the best WordPress page builders. It is massively popular among designers and scored really well in our survey of most popular WordPress page builders vs Gutenberg (an upcoming article) As we are working on an Elementor Pro review, we will not go in-depth in this post about Elementor. Rather, Elementor …

Happy 17th Birthday, WordPress!

28th May 202028th May 2020 by Leo Koo

Did you know that it was WordPress’ 17th birthday yesterday. Back on May 27th, 2003, the software called WordPress, was created as a fork of the popular b2/cafelog blogging software. No one expected WordPress to have grown and matured at such a pace. WordPress has come a long way. At the point of writing, WordPress …

Nathan Singh Buys Imagely

27th May 202027th May 2020 by Leo Koo

In a stunning move, Nathan Singh who previously bought Envira Gallery and Soliloquy Slider from Syed Balkhi, has now purchased Imagely. This purchase unites two of the largest WordPress Gallery plugins, Envira Gallery and NextGEN Gallery under one roof. Based on Nathan’s previous purchase of Envira Gallery and Soliloquy Slider, expect Imagely to drop their …