After a recent business network event, I was contacted by someone I had met who wanted me to have a look at their website with a view to doing a redesign. In 10 minutes, I had filled my notebook with Read more…
My wife was given a jigsaw puzzle by a neighbour. She didn’t want to do it but was too polite to say no – so I did it.
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Installing WordPress Plugins is not a do once activity. They need to be updated for security, performance and functionality reasons.
(more…)Gutenberg is the new editor that came with the release of WordPress version 5 and with it came blocks. Blocks are the new way to layout a post or page in WordPress. Whilst there are set of standard blocks, a number of developers have created plugins with a whole new set blocks.
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Gutenberg is the code name of the new editor which has been built into WordPress v5. This has replaced the ‘classic’ editor which itself was based on TinyMCE. On the 6th December 2019, WordPress v5 was released into the wild .
(more…)The default “visual editor” in WordPress is TinyMCE and was introduced in WP v2.0 back in 2005. With the advancement of some of the editors for companies like Wix and Squarespace, it was felt that the WP editor was being left behind.
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We were recently contacted by a client who wanted help with their WordPress website. We performed a full site audit and found out one of the main issues was the performance of the site. The site was taking nearly 4 seconds to load with a page size of over 3mb. As Google is increasingly using page speed as a ranking factor, especially for mobiles, (source) it was important to get the load time as low as possible.
(more…)Recently, someone asked on a Facebook group for advice on how people use project management tools such as Trello whilst developing WordPress websites. I gave a quick answer but thought I would write a blog post with some more detail in it.
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