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How To Find The Perfect WordPress Theme

Posted: February 12, 2016 Updated: January 4, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
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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 […]

Category: WordPress Tags: theme

Pootle page builder – a first look at a promising plugin

Posted: January 29, 2016 Updated: January 4, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
6 Comments

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’ […]

Category: WordPress Tags: page builder, plugin

How To Get More Visible Online With A WordPress Avatar Image

Posted: January 15, 2016 Updated: January 4, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
4 Comments

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 […]

Category: WordPress Tags: comments, gravatar, wordpress.com

The WordPress Twenty Sixteen theme: Good, Bad or Ugly?

Posted: January 8, 2016 Updated: January 4, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
70 Comments

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 […]

Category: WordPress Tags: accessibility-ready, customizer, theme, twenty sixteen

Easily Improve Your WordPress Site Login With Unique Branding

Posted: December 23, 2015 Updated: January 4, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
1 Comment

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 […]

Category: WordPress Tags: login, plugin

Och Aye The Wapuu! Spotlight On WordCamp Edinburgh 2015

Posted: December 11, 2015 Updated: June 12, 2019 by Claire Brotherton
7 Comments

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 […]

Category: WordPress Tags: assistive technology, customizer, Edinburgh, open source, responsive images, REST API, SEO, web development, wordcamp

How to resize a picture to the correct size

Posted: November 24, 2015 Updated: September 5, 2019 by Claire Brotherton
11 Comments

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 […]

Category: Software & Tech, WordPress Tags: crop, Fotor, photo editing, resize

A Custom Homepage For The Genesis Framework

Posted: November 6, 2015 Updated: January 4, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
10 Comments

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, […]

Category: WordPress Tags: Genesis

How To Optimize Your Images For Your WordPress Site

Posted: October 9, 2015 Updated: July 12, 2018 by Claire Brotherton
15 Comments

WordPress and Images WordPress is actually pretty smart when it comes to images. Images have two main sizes associated with them: Image file size, which is measured in KB or MB Image dimensions, measured in pixels (px) The two values are related – the smaller the image, the lower the file size. When you upload an image, WordPress […]

Category: WordPress Tags: featured image, images

A WordPress Survey Plugin to Capture Important Visitor Opinions

Posted: June 5, 2015 Updated: June 12, 2019 by Claire Brotherton
1 Comment

Last updated: 12 June 2019 This plugin seems to be no longer available. For other quiz plugins please see these posts: How To Create Great Viral Quizzes With Riddle How To Create a Gravity Forms Quiz With Multiple Outcomes I was asked by Sarah Arrow to review a new WordPress plugin by Andrei-Robert Rusu of […]

Category: WordPress Tags: plugin, quiz, survey

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