Category: WordPress
January 23rd, 2020 Posted in Web Development, WordPress
WordPress as Digital Signage
We’ve recently done a project for a solicitor’s office where they used tiny Raspberry Pi computers attached to monitors in their office, displaying various stats and info for their staff so they can see how each department is doing and also the results of their marketing efforts. We can’t show actual images for privacy reasons, so have […]
September 21st, 2018 Posted in Web Design, Web Development, WooCommerce, WordPress
Ecommerce Enlightenment ebook now available
I’ve recently published my first ebook called Ecommerce Enlightenment. It covers how to plan, develop and market ecommerce websites and is based on ten years of experience building these websites for clients. Who Is This Book For? If you’re thinking of setting up an ecommerce website, this book is for you. It takes you through […]
July 5th, 2017 Posted in Web Design, Web Development, WordPress
Lazy loading sliders and Google PageSpeed render blocking issue
Love them or hate them, sliders appear on many websites. Many clients ask for them so we use them a lot on the WordPress sites we build. Using the Advanced Custom Fields Repeater field, we can make the banners editable for clients too. All good, aside from the file size of using multiple large images. […]
January 12th, 2017 Posted in Business, Web Development, WordPress
PHP development – Systems vs custom made
We’ve used a variety of PHP content management and ecommerce systems over the years and have gone in the direction of using existing systems rather than creating custom made systems for clients. We chose this route as using a ready made starting point reduces development costs and theoretically makes life easier when it comes to […]
May 25th, 2016 Posted in Business, Computer, Web Design, Web Development, WordPress
Google Pagespeed tweaks for WordPress
Site speed is now an important signal of site quality to Google and our SEO guy has started running sites through the Google Pagespeed tool when assessing sites for clients. This usually throws up the same issues with WordPress sites and I’ve made some notes on how to fix these. With our own server we […]
November 19th, 2014 Posted in Web Development, WooCommerce, WordPress
WooCommerce – autocomplete downloadable orders
When a downloadable order is made in WordPress/WooCommerce 2.1 the order is set to ‘processing’ the same as an order that is physically shipped. The order can then be marked as ‘complete’ by the shop admin, but it makes more sense for the order to be completed as soon as it’s paid for. Luckily, there […]