Category: WordPress

  • Your slow WordPress website!

    Your slow WordPress website!

    Slow websites are seriously bad for your business, the drop off time for slow loading sites can be the difference between your site making money and being an expensive brochure that doesn’t convert any customers. For business websites your most likely outcome is to generate leads and revenue, is your slow loading website helping you…

  • WordPress power tools: Post Status Membership

    WordPress power tools: Post Status Membership

    In the first post of a series, we are going to be looking at the essential tools we use on a daily basis to make outstanding WordPress websites for creative and digital agencies. Today, we are discussing one of our most valuable resources, membership to the Post Status Club. A brief history Post Status  is…

  • Protect your email address on a WordPress site

    Protect your email address on a WordPress site

    WordPress comes with some useful built in functions for sanitising and protecting content which are often underused. For example, ever needed to protect an email address on a site footer or contact template so it cannot be picked up by spammers? Enter ‘antispambot’! Antispambot’s default usage is as follows where the email you want to…

  • Our thoughts on WordPress targeting 50% market share

    Our thoughts on WordPress targeting 50% market share

    The growth of WordPress in the last 2 to 3 years has been phenomenal and it seems that every time a new statistic appears regarding market share, WordPress is growing more and more. For an open source project to continue to innovate and improve shows a lot to the legion of contributors who seem to…

  • Where we go for WordPress help

    Where we go for WordPress help

    Sometimes we get stuck, sometimes we just want to keep informed about what is going on with WordPress. The WordPress community is a helpful, friendly and open especially when you need help with something. Whether its a piece of code or business advice, finding something out for us normally means visiting one of the following…

  • WP Engine – Proactively improving security

    WP Engine – Proactively improving security

    One of the things we appreciate the most about WP Engine is its proactive nature with improving its service offering to its customers. It seems like they are always looking inwards to see what they can improve, not in a casual way, more in a way where they are making it their mission to be…

  • Celebrating WordPress

    WordPress is our life and has been for years and it is always good to see statistics that show its success and popularity. As of August 2013 near on 20% of the top 10 Million sites use WordPress, which is more than any other system. WordPress was born in 2003 when the founder Matt Mullenweg…

  • What we think of WordPress 3.6

    WordPress 3.6 was finally released on the 1st August of 2013, the latest version comes with a number of important changes and improvements that will go on to benefit both users and WordPress developers alike. Throughout this article we will list a number of reasons why WordPress 3.6 nicknamed Oscar (honouring jazz pianist Oscar Peterson)…

  • Shameless Plug: 5 great benefits of outsourcing your WordPress development

    1. Price Let’s not mess about here, the greatest benefit from outsourcing your WordPress development (with us) is price. More to the point, the price your charge your client minus the price that we charge you (a nice big difference!). Our trade only pricing allows you to make a healthy mark up on what you…