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I came across Pootle page builder the other day and was keen to try it out. It’s made by Pootlepress, who specialise in WordPress plugins, themes and training. Pootle page builder is free to download from the WordPress repository. There are paid add-ons for it, which I haven’t tested. I tried it out using WooThemes’ […]
On Saturday 16 January I attended the inaugural VIP Mastermind Conference, a gathering of top business minds at Creative Exchange Leith in the north of Edinburgh. The event was organised by Fin Wycherley of Supersize Media, a social media and digital marketing consultancy. I’d heard Fin speak about social media strategy a couple of months before, so trusted […]
If you own a WordPress blog, you will want to build your brand online by regularly blogging about the latest and greatest topics in your niche. Allowing comments on your own blog and commenting on other people’s blogs is part of this process – it says: Hey! I’m a social, helpful person and I like […]
The Twenty Sixteen theme has actually been out for four months. For most users, though, their first encounter with it came with the release of WordPress 4.4 in December 2015. It’s already been installed on over 300,000 sites. I’ve delved into the theme and here is what I think. You might want to read my review of Twenty Fifteen, as there […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
