October 5th, 2020
As a WordPress development & support company, we tend to have access to lots of client’s website credentials, and we often need to send passwords to clients. In this article, we’ll explore how we do that as securely as possible….
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September 29th, 2020
Email forms are an essential aspect of any WordPress website. They enable our website visitors to make contact with us thereby fulfilling one of the fundamental reasons for having a website in the first place – helping convert anonymous website…
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September 21st, 2020
In this article, we look at how you set up and configure your email to help minimise the chance of your emails accidentally going into spam folders (or worse still – getting blocked completely!). If you find yourself saying “having…
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September 14th, 2020
This is an edited replay of #TheWPshow (The WordPress Show) from the 4th of Sept 2020. Feel free to join our community on Facebook where future events are streamed. In the first #TheWPshow after the summer break, I dip into…
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September 10th, 2020
Hosting is a fundamental piece of the puzzle when providing a solid website experience to your online audience. In this article, we discuss some of the factors you need to consider. Files Our websites are, at the end of the…
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September 4th, 2020
You may not realise it at first, but your website is part of a delicate stack of hardware and software which all needs to play together nicely to avoid issues. Furthermore, this stack is constantly evolving – new versions of…
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August 31st, 2020
I’ve just got back from being away with my kids in West Wales and, as usual, the brain never fully switches off from business, and I thought I’d come back and blog about what I’ve been mulling: the challenge for…
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August 19th, 2020
Canonical URLs are something you don’t normally need to worry about; except in exceptional circumstances. However, they are worth knowing about all the same. What is a ‘Canonical URL’? It is the ‘definitive source’ of the information the page is…
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August 16th, 2020
As you know, WordPress is a continually shifting seascape of software with everything needing updating pretty regularly; whether that’s plugins, themes, or indeed the core of WordPress itself. WordPress 5.5 has just come out and you may have seen this…
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August 13th, 2020
In the video below you can see some findings from my recent chat with Helen Reynolds about the Comms Creatives website: This was not a full website review, I was just covering some points as a favour as Helen was…
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August 11th, 2020
This is a slight departure from our usual topics but I stumbled across something a few days ago and I found it very interesting: QR Codes. Yes, you read that right. QR Codes? For those who don’t remember, a QR…
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August 7th, 2020
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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