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Have you ever had a plugin or theme update break your WordPress site? It doesn’t tend to happen often, but it has happened to me on occasion. Perhaps a new feature that the author has implemented is incompatible with your particular WordPress setup, or an updated plugin just doesn’t play nice with another plugin on […]
Mobile-friendly – what’s that? Since November 2014, Google has labelled certain websites ‘mobile-friendly’ in search results. A site is deemed mobile-friendly if: The text is readable on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet Software such as Flash is not used No zooming or horizontal scrolling is required to view the content Links […]
A few weeks ago, I was asked to give a short talk to the WordPress Edinburgh Meetup group. I went to print out my plugins for improving accessibility post that I based it on and horror of horrors, it came out at 16 pages, and the formatting was all over the place. I thought that it […]
On arrival, I just had time to store my luggage away before attending the first Sunday session. I had no time for coffee – that came later. Morning sessions JavaScript Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them – Kat Reeve Kat is a senior developer at Reason Digital. WordPress uses a lot of JavaScript and she […]
Updated 12 June 2019. I recently attended WordCamp London 2015. It was by far the biggest WordCamp I’d ever been to. With 600 attendees, 3 tracks in 3 buildings and 64 speakers, it could have been overwhelming. The fact that it retained the spirit, friendliness and intimacy of previous WordCamps I’ve attended is a testament to the organisers. […]
I’ve written before about the importance of web accessibility. Making your website as accessible as possible will allow your website’s message to reach more people. This is especially important if you are selling something! This article will focus on WordPress accessibility. Accessible WordPress themes Ideally, all WordPress site owners would be using an accessible theme. Web developer […]
This is Day 26 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 25’s post here. Adding the Jetpack Related Posts widget I decided today that since I’ve written a lot of posts lately, it was time to add a related posts widget to my site. After consulting this article on related posts plugins, I […]
Update September 2019: I’ve kept this post up as it was part of the blogging challenge, but the Visual Developer plugin hasn’t been updated in 4 years. I don’t recommend using it now. This is Day 25 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 24’s post here. I’ve written previously about customizing a […]
This is Day 23 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 22’s post here. Adding sidebar widgets is common task to do on a WordPress site. WordPress has a number of default widgets built in. When adding text, the obvious one to use is the Text widget. The WordPress Text Widget The Text […]
This is Day 18 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 17’s post here. There are now many page builder plugins for WordPress, which allow you to construct elaborate page layouts in a drag and drop manner. So why use one, and which one is right for you? Why use a WordPress […]
