Let’s face it, the default WordPress login screen is quite boring. Nothing to get too excited about, is it? Very… grey. So it’s worth spending a little time changing it with a simple plugin. Why change your WordPress site login page? WordPress site owners can brand the login area to match their branding and colours. If you are […]
How Do I Make My Missing MailChimp Subscribe Button Show?
Missing MailChimp Subscribe Button? That’s not good… I worked on a WordPress site recently where there was a problem with an embedded MailChimp form. The form had been created and added to the site, but the Subscribe button wasn’t showing up. While the form could still be completed and submitted by clicking the Enter button, it […]
Och Aye The Wapuu! Spotlight On WordCamp Edinburgh 2015
The last time Edinburgh had a WordCamp was in 2012. I was fresh out of university and eager to meet members of the WordPress community. I’d dabbled a bit with WordPress a few years before, but was keen to learn more and meet members of the local WP community. The weekend conference drew attendees from […]
Upset By Missing Twitter Share Counts? How To See Them Again
What’s happened to Twitter’s Share Counts? Tweet 0 I discovered the other day through using Coschedule’s social sharing tools that I could no longer see the share count for my posts shared on Twitter. Personally, I don’t display share counts on my actual posts because I don’t tend to get large numbers of shares. But this still […]
How to resize a picture to the correct size
I worked recently on a site using a WordPress theme with specific image sizes. Each post or page could have a featured image above the content. The featured image size varies from theme to theme. For this theme the optimal size was 960 x 250 px, a letterbox shape. If another image was supplied, it […]
A Custom Homepage For The Genesis Framework
I’ve decided to give my homepage a bit of an overhaul. As I’m using the Genesis Framework, it’s a little more complex than for a standard WordPress theme. Genesis uses its own proprietary system of hooks and filters, so you can’t edit the PHP code hands-on like you might with other themes. I found some tutorials online, […]
Brad Sugars Uncensored – The Best Business Advice
On Wednesday evening I was fortunate enough to hear ActionCoach CEO and entrepreneur Brad Sugars for a second time. Brad was in Edinburgh touring with his presentation Brad Sugars Uncensored. It certainly live up to that reputation. Brad is a straight talking businessman from Brisbane, Australia – and he didn’t pull his punches. Some of […]
How To Optimize Your Images For Your WordPress Site
WordPress and Images WordPress is actually pretty smart when it comes to images. Images have two main sizes associated with them: Image file size, which is measured in KB or MB Image dimensions, measured in pixels (px) The two values are related – the smaller the image, the lower the file size. When you upload an image, WordPress […]
Why Fixing Broken Links Is Important For Your Website
The web is built on hyperlinks. When all is well and good, every link on our site will lead exactly to the right place. But sometimes links go bad.
6 Of The Best – The Content Marketing Academy 2015
The Content Marketing Academy 2015 – so what was that? I attended one of the best conferences I’ve been to lately, The Content Marketing Academy 2015. The conference took place over 2 days on 3 and 4 September. We were promised that we’d learn things that would take our business one year ahead of the competition – […]