Where the Web Went Wrong
A few days ago Andy Budd tweeted something that really struck a nerve. I’ll paste in Andy’s tweet: How it felt when visiting a website in 2022 Figure out how to decline all but essential cookies […] Read more
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Campfire
Welcome to Campfire, here we talk about what’s happening in the world of WordPress websites and digital strategy in a clear, simple language that will make sense to busy business people such as yourselves.
- How To (16)
- News (4)
- Planning your website (29)
- Privacy, GDPR etc (6)
- Security (7)
- SEO & Google (14)
- Tech news (3)
- Thought Piece (31)
- Tools & Apps (18)
- Uncategorised (18)
- video (3)
- Webinar Replays (15)
- Website Review Revelations (7)
- Website tips (40)
- WordPress tips (14)
Using Fathom with Zaraz
Using Fathom analytics with Zaraz is pretty straightforward (especially now that Zaraz have rolled out attaching events to CSS selectors ala Google Tag Manager – thank you!). Note: read my previous article for a deeper introduction […] Read more
What is a static WordPress website?
At its heart, WordPress is a highly popular, highly extensible, content management system that powers over 455 million websites. ….yes, isn’t that a big number? The problem with big numbers Because WordPress powers so many websites, […] Read more
CloudFlare’s Zaraz (and Google Tag Manager)
CloudFlare has recently bought Zaraz and I’d like to use this article to explore what I’ve learned so far about the very interesting possibilities here. Firstly, let’s recap the general landscape of the problem at the […] Read more
Account Manager vacancy (part-time)
We have an opening for an experienced part-time, freelance account manager type role. The role is fully remote and will best suit someone best in the UK time zone. You will help us run and organise […] Read more
GoDaddy security incident – lessons to learn
The recent incident with GoDaddy should give businesses extra pause for thought when considering who they choose to look after their online assets. Please note: I’m not revelling in the issues GoDaddy faced here, and I […] Read more
Close Encounters with Call to Actions
There’s a wonderful scene from the classic Steven Spielberg Close Encounters movie where abducted people are brought back to Earth. They gingerly emerge from the blinding light of the futuristic alien ship, disoriented, and slightly bedraggled. […] Read more
Designing with WordPress ‘intelligently’
How to play to the strengths of WordPress when designing your website. This article is part of our series on planning your WordPress site. In the first article, we looked at the basics of creating a […] Read more
Where does ‘content’ magically appear from?
The heart of your website is very much its ‘content‘: the words, pictures, audio, video, infographics etc that help convey your message. Hopefully converting anonymous website visitors into qualified contacts & leads for you to work […] Read more
Migrating your WordPress site? Consider this
In this article, we share some learnings from the countless WordPress sites we’ve migrated over the years…. Freeze Period At some point during the migration from old hosting to new, you’re going to want to take […] Read more
Permanent WordPress Developer Role(s)
We are on the lookout for one or more WordPress developers to join the Glass Mountains team. Est in 2001, we have a core flexible team of 6 servicing WordPress clients in the UK and the […] Read more
#TheWPshow WordPress Plugins
On the April 2021 show, we had our Chief Joel Hughes and Lead Tech Developer Ben telling us all about Plugins! Here are the show notes: 3:30 The code of a plugin – what happens when […] Read more