The Content Marketing Academy 2016 – Day 1 Yesterday’s opening day of #TCMA2016 saw some of the best exponents of content marketing share their wisdom with an eager audience. Want to know what happened last year? Read: Six of the Best – The Content Marketing Academy 2015 Here are some of my top content creation […]
Just What The Heck Is A Featured Image, Anyway?
I’ve had some clients confused over Featured Images in WordPress. So I thought I’d write a post to explain. Some of the questions I’ll cover are: What is a featured image? What’s the difference between a featured image and images in posts or pages? How do I set featured images? How are featured images displayed in themes? […]
3 WordPress Blog Layout Plugins – Get A Better Look Easily
If you’re a WordPress blogger, you might have a theme you use for your blog but not be terribly excited about the blog page design. Or perhaps you want to customize the look of your blog more without getting into code. You might want to: Show your posts in a grid, carousel or timeline Only […]
How to make the web better: WordPress accessibility experts panel
One of the sessions I looked forward to at WordCamp London this year was the Accessibility Panel on Sunday. The WordPress accessibility experts The panel featured four authorities on WordPress accessibility. They also use the Genesis Framework. They were: Gary Jones – freelance web developer, WordPress and Genesis Framework contributor and accessibility advocate. Gary runs his own company Gamajo […]
A First Time Speaker’s Experience At WordCamp London 2016
The road to public speaking I gave my first conference presentation on Saturday 9 April at WordCamp London 2016. The topic, covered in my last post, was The How and Why of Small Business Blogging. It was quite a journey to the presentation day, I can tell you! The invite came from Diane Wallace, who […]
The How and Why Of Small Business Blogging
I gave this talk at WordCamp London 2016 on 9 April 2016. I have written another post about the experience of preparing and delivering the talk. This post focuses on the content. .@abrightclearweb gave an excellent talk about how to become a great blogger, with many useful tips #WCLDN pic.twitter.com/4nANvXwGd2 — Rian Rietveld (@RianRietveld) April […]
Get More Eyeballs On Your Content With Revive Old Post
If you’ve blogged for a while, you will have a great bank of content waiting to be discovered and read by new readers. Especially evergreen content – content that doesn’t go out of date. Using social media automation is a good way to manage this. I’ve used Buffer and Coschedule’s social sharing tools to good […]
8 Current and Emerging Design Trends For 2016
Design is constantly changing and evolving as new trends come and go yearly. That couldn’t be more true in the web design field where the ease of sharing and iterating makes design change move exponentially faster. Every year it’s fun to take a look at what happened with design in the previous year, and what’s […]
What Makes A Good Business Event? An Attendee’s View
I was considering business events which I’ve attended in the past few months, and ones I’m due to go to in the near future. I thought to myself, “What makes a good business event?” As an attendee, what did I enjoy, and what could be done better? There are a few types of event I’ve been […]
How To Change Your WordPress Theme Without Tears
Updated 14 May 2018. WordPress is designed to be flexible and customizable as a platform. Being able to switch your website’s theme and change the look of your website is one of the big attractions. So when you decide on a new theme, in theory, it’s simple: go to Appearance > Themes in the Dashboard, […]