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 […]
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 Especially evergreen content – content that doesn’t go out of date.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 […]
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, […]
A Twenty Sixteen Child Theme With Extra WP Customizer Goodness
I’ve had a go at building a child theme for Twenty Sixteen. I decided to use the build as an opportunity to try out the WP Customizer, which I’d been wanting to do for a while, since seeing Dave T Green’s talk on the Customizer at WordCamp Edinburgh 2015. Full disclaimer: I got most of […]
How To Find The Perfect WordPress Theme
If you are creating a new WordPress site, the choice of theme is an important decision. Pick the wrong one and you might run into problems later on, such as: Your theme doesn’t adapt to mobile devices You can’t run that shop you wanted to build The forum you added doesn’t display properly It’s worth […]
Pootle page builder – a first look at a promising plugin
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’ […]
How To Get More Visible Online With A WordPress Avatar Image
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 […]