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This is Day 17 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 16’s post here. What is a shortcode? A WordPress shortcode – not to be confused with shortbread – is a shorthand version of a piece of code. They’re written to allow users to add functions to WordPress sites in a quick way, without […]
This is Day 11 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 10’s post here. When setting up a website, many people will turn to WordPress due to its popularity and ease of use. But it’s easy for people to get confused by the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. So what’s the difference, and […]
This is Day 10 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 9’s post here. I wrote previously about customizing a WordPress theme. If you like your theme layout but want to have make more changes to the way it displays, a child theme is the way to go. What’s a Child Theme? A child theme […]
This is Day 7 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 6’s post here. Morning There must have been a few sore heads after Saturday’s night out, because the main room was practically deserted five minutes before the introduction. (To be fair, a number of people were partaking of tea and coffee in […]
This is Day 6 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 5’s post here. What’s a WordCamp? For the uninitiated, WordCamps are conferences based around all things WordPress. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this post on why I love WordPress. I love WordCamps too – they’re a great get-together […]
This is Day 3 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 2’s post here. So you’ve searched for a WordPress theme and found one you like, but there’s one little thing about it that you want to change. Maybe the font is too big, or you want a different link colour. How can you […]
This is Day 2 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 1’s post here. With WordPress sites accounting for around a fifth of all websites, it comes as no surprise that WordPress has also become the target of hackers, spammers and other nefarious characters due to its popularity. If you run your own self-hosted […]
WordPress 4.1 was released last month, and along with it the Twenty Fifteen theme was launched. I’ve had a look at it to see what it can do. First impressions Twenty Fifteen has some passing resemblances to the previous theme from the WordPress.org team, Twenty Fourteen, with a left sidebar and widget area. But the look […]
Note: as of October 2017, the Canvas theme is retired and is no longer available to buy. I’ve used Canvas as the basis for a few WordPress projects now. It is the main theme produced by WooThemes, and it is powered by their WooFramework. Like the Genesis framework, I’ve found some things I really like […]
In 2012, I was lucky enough that the main UK WordPress conference was held in my home city of Edinburgh. I went along and had a terrific time. I missed out on the 2013 Lancaster offering, so was determined this year to get to this year’s conference in Bournemouth. I last visited the town as […]
