5 Best WordPress Live Chat Plugins for 2026

PurioChat is our top pick for AI-first support with human takeover inside WordPress. Tidio suits teams that want a larger support platform. tawk.to is the strongest free option for human chat. LiveChat offers a polished inbox for established support teams. Crisp combines live chat, a shared inbox and mobile apps. Each plugin solves a different […]

AI Assistant WordPress Plugin for Customer Support

Most customer support questions do not need a long ticket thread. They need a clear answer right away. A good AI assistant like PurioChat should feel like a helpful team member: fast with common questions, honest when it does not know, and smart enough to send the visitor to a human when the answer needs […]

Envato’s 50% Author Fee: Time to Sell Direct

Envato’s July 2026 Market change is not a tidy pricing update. For many long-time ThemeForest and CodeCanyon authors, it is a major revenue cut. Envato says it will end the exclusive author model and move all authors to a flat 50% author fee from July 1 2026, according to its Author Hub announcement – as […]

Dodo Payments vs Polar.sh and Paddle: Merchant of Record Comparison

What is MoR (Merchant of Record)? WordPress plugin and theme developers usually look at a Merchant of Record for one reason: they do not want to run global tax, receipts, and invoices themselves. Stripe can take the card payment, but the boring work stays with you: VAT, GST, sales tax, buyer location, reverse-charge rules, billing […]

Directory Website Ideas: 1,000 Real Sites Analyzed

If you want to build a directory website, the hard part is not WordPress. It is picking a niche with enough listings, real search demand, and a clear monetization path. To make that choice easier, we categorized roughly 1,000 live customer sites built on our directory theme and pulled out what people actually launch. We […]

WooCommerce Statistics 2026: Market Share

WooCommerce is still massive in 2026, but it is no longer in hyper-growth mode. Store Leads reports 4,341,142 live WooCommerce stores, WordPress.org shows 7+ million active WooCommerce installations, and W3Techs puts WooCommerce at 49.0% of known ecommerce systems in its sample. The useful takeaway is simple: WooCommerce remains one of the biggest ecommerce ecosystems on […]

Best Gym and Fitness Directory WordPress Theme

Best Gym & Fitness Directory WordPress Theme

If you want a site where visitors compare gyms, trainers, yoga studios, classes, and wellness providers by location, choose a true directory theme rather than a single-club fitness theme. Listeo is the best fit in the PureThemes lineup because it is a WordPress directory theme with map search, front-end submissions, booking modes, paid packages, reviews, […]

SiteGPT.ai Alternative Chatbot for WordPress

If your site is built on WordPress, PurioChat is the cleaner WordPress-first alternative when you want a chatbot managed from WordPress, trained on WordPress content, and sold as a one-time plugin purchase. SiteGPT is still a capable SaaS chatbot for teams that want its hosted dashboard, broad integrations, and higher-touch support workflows. Why PurioChat Fits […]