How to sail your website
If you don’t keep a close eye on your website, over time, it’ll drift. Not a huge amount each day, and if you’re not paying attention, you won’t notice at first. But drifting it is. Why? With websites, what typically…
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WordPress.com v WordPress.org ?
The word ‘WordPress‘ can actually mean different things in different contexts so it’s worth spending a little time digging into that a little. WordPress WordPress itself is the open-source content management publishing platform. It is a software application written in…
A simple guide to DNS, domains, email, & hosting
I regularly see confusion when it comes to people understanding the services you need when getting your business online. In this article, I’ll explain the differences when it comes to: Domain names Email Website hosting DNS Domain Names It all…
#TheWPshow with Nick Boyce
On the 24th of July I was lucky enough to chat to Nick Boyce of Pollenary, an agency which focuses on e-commerce growth, specialising in social media advertising, conversion rate optimisation, analytics and user research. In this talk Nick covers…
Site Health Report in WordPress
WordPress version 5.2 included a handy feature called ‘Site Health‘ to help you keep on top of the general health of your WordPress website. Site Health looks at various technical aspects on your website (e.g. your plugins, the PHP version…
Our new homepage – a behind the scenes tour
In this video, I to talk through some of the reasoning behind our upcoming homepage redesign. Now ordinarily I would write a wordy blog post here but in this instance, I think a video makes more sense (and it’s easier…
What is anchor text?
Anchor link text is an essential part of creating rich, useful web pages. This article explains what they are, plus how to write great anchor link text. One of the key features of websites is that we can link to…
theWPshow with Sue Keogh
Here is the replay* from our theWPshow (The WordPress Show) where we talk to Sue Keogh about writing for the web. (*here are all our recent replays). Here are some key links for Sue: Book in for a chat with Sue if…
Redirecting in WordPress
Sometimes with our WordPress sites, we need to either delete pages (or posts), or change their URL (i.e. their unique page address – sometimes referred to as a permalink). We typically need to do this if we are removing old,…
My first blog post from 2002 – what can it still teach?
I wrote my very first blog nearly 20 years ago – reflecting back on that post, what can I learn from it? At the time I was doing lots of website development and I needed to run many different platforms…
Website review findings – SEO Descriptions
I recently helped a client troubleshoot some SEO issues and I thought I’d anonymously share some of those findings here…. This was part of a 45 min Zoom call, so it was not an in-depth strategy & analysis session. These…
Searching for your low quality pages
If your website has pages which rarely receive any traffic, then those pages could be holding your website back in terms of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Let’s investigate…. In our recent episode of The WordPress Show on the topic of…