I remember seeing a mobile hairdresser with their facebook address displayed on their car and I realised that people are going to do this instead of a website or even a phone number. It makes sense. It’s cheaper. It’s easier. It’s memorable. And so it came to pass. There are countless small businesses now whose… Continue reading Who even needs a website anymore?
Category: webdev
Broken WordPress: Quick Fix
You’ve updated WordPress and now your website is broken. You need to fix it. Fast. The two most likely culprits are a broken preloaded plugin or a broken theme. Let’s look at how to fix both. Broken Plugin The quickest way to fix this is to go in with ftp or go to your webhosting… Continue reading Broken WordPress: Quick Fix
WordPress update
There is a new point release of WordPress available along with a brand new theme. I normally run updates and test new themes on a staging site, before updating live sites, but it was a rainy Sunday so I just dropped it straight on here and this is the result! The recent default WordPress themes… Continue reading WordPress update
Blocking Spam
The contact page for this website has recently been inundated with spam from webcrawling robots, so it has become necessary to implement some basic spam blocking. The website is now using Google reCaptcha technology. Apologies if this makes it harder to contact us, but the spam was spiralling out of control. Here is a snapshot… Continue reading Blocking Spam
Twenty Seventeen & Twenty Nineteen Themes
These are three default themes in a new WordPress 5.0 installation. Twenty Nineteen is the newest and has been developed take advantage of the new features that the Gutenberg editor brings to WordPress.
WordPress 5.0 Back to Basics
Our old website has been completely deleted and replaced with the latest version of WordPress. Historically we have relied on WordPress themes to quickly create an attractive look and feel, but each new release of WordPress brings the possibility of the site breaking. WordPress 4.0 did this for all our clients and WordPress 5.0 has… Continue reading WordPress 5.0 Back to Basics