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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.
WordPress has a lot going for it if you are looking to build a new website. In this article, I’ll dig into the top key reasons why many businesses chose WordPress for their website – and I’ll also highlight some…
In this article, I discuss what Custom Post Types are, and how they can help. The aim is to inspire you to use them to improve your WordPress website. WordPress, like any subject, comes with lots of fancy phrases which…
If your website is experiencing lots of comment spam, then there is an easy solution. But first, let’s understand the problem a little more. What is comment spam? In general, you are looking for people to comment on your blog…
Will redesigning my website harm my SEO? That’s a valid question – after all, we don’t want to go to the time & trouble of redesigning a website if it ends up harming our Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Or do…
On the weekend I quickly penned an article on “How to optimise your WordPress images for SEO“, I like to keep our blog ticking over so when an idea comes to my head, I quickly get it out there (even…
How to optimise your WordPress images for SEO. In this article we look at ‘filenames’, ‘captions’, and ‘alt’ text. Read on >> If you’re going to the trouble of putting new content onto your website or blog, then we may…
Setting up a new Facebook Group? You need to decide whether you want the privacy to be “private” or “public“. This short article helps you decide >> It used to be the case that you could change the privacy setting…
In today’s article, I want to show you how to put a free alert in place so that you know if your website goes down. The service we are using here is Uptime Robot, there are others (of course), this…
In this first of this series of articles, I’m going to start exploring what email automation is as well as delving into some examples of how we use it here at Glass Mountains. What is email automation? Email automation is…
This may seem an odd post but I’d like to get this off my chest…. I am often invited into a conversation or asked to give a talk about WordPress and website strategy etc – giving practical tips on how…
In this article in our series on website review revelations, we’ll look at other elements from the website homepage which had issues – in this case, we’ll discuss ‘call to actions‘…… Random acts of content There were other areas on…
Learn the basics of why you should use a password management system such as 1Password to store & securely share the password credentials for your business. It still surprises me how many people & businesses have only the flimsiest of…