I’d been hosting my site with Siteground for a number of years and in all honesty had a really good experience with them. However I’d been thinking about starting a new site and didn’t want to have to immediately double my hosting spend. I knew if I moved my website to Cloudways I’d be paying … Read more
I started to look at the WordPress Api recently and decided to put together a small React JS web app that would enable me to show my blog data in a custom front end. To start with I have focused on getting a a list of posts, and related categories. By following this post, an … Read more
I spent some time recently working on a couple of website designs that could really use a little design flourish, and I thought styling the ampersand would be just enough. Looking back to an old bit of code I knew you could usee CSS to style your special ameprsands, render them in Baskerville styled in … Read more
I wrote an article last year about how to speed Woocommerce up. It’s turned out to be a pretty popular post, but as with everything online things have moved on and it feels like the right time for an update. WordPress is great but the number one complaint you hear is ‘WordPress is slow!’ – … Read more
I’ve been building a website using Woocommerce for the first time recently. It started off with less than 100 items and expanded to over 500 by the time we had finished. That’s still not many products at all but I began to notice some speed issues after a while and if they were bugging me … Read more
While building Lightstorm, my soon to be released custom WordPress theme, I added next and previous links to the bottom of each individual custom post item. In this case I wanted to build a portfolio and to enable the user to click backwards or forwards through the entire portfolio. I added the WordPress next and … Read more
While developing a custom WordPress theme recently I found myself in a situation where I needed to find out the name of the WordPress page template being used for the current page. After searching the WordPress Codex I had found the code which enables you to check the page template by using a string comparison … Read more
None of us like getting an inbox full of spam mail and there are a few ways to show your email address on your website that can go some way towards fooling email harvesters. One way is to replace the chracters in your addres with words. For example emily@acompany.com would be shown as emily {at} … Read more
During the process of writing a few custom widgets for a custom WordPress theme I found a frustrating problem when using a checkbox as one of the widget options. The checkbox was functioning properly but when it was checked and then the widget options saved it was being unchecked. The answer is really simple but … Read more
Just the same as many other WordPress developers when it came to building and modifying themes I really needed to be able to customise the menu. I found a few tutorials on extending the WordPress Walker to add a button description, most notably this one by Kriesi but I couldn’t find too much about showing … Read more