WordPress Essentials – A WordPress Tutorial & Resource Site
Wednesday, 29 January 2020
When you’re starting out building a website or starting up an E-Commerce business, it’s sometimes difficult to know where to start. Many people want to build there own website but lack the knowhow to get started. To help solve this I’ve started building WordPress Essentials. Using working examples I’ve begun creating step by step tutorials
- Published in Wordpress, Wordpress Tips
How to add a free Cloudflare SSL certificate to your WordPress website
Tuesday, 27 August 2019
This is a quick tutorial on how to setup your WordPress site to get the benefits of that little padlock you see in your browser address bar. Without this your customers (as well as Google) will have less confidence in the security of your website. For this example I’ll be using vinyldirectory.co.uk as an example
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Custom Google Maps
Thursday, 13 June 2019
There are a great many ways to boost your Google ranking, from creating a Google My Business page, building website citations from directories such as Yell through to effective blogging on both your own site and relevant third-party sites with a high Domain Authority ranking. Backlinks have for a long time been regarded as one
- Published in Website Design
Business Submission Websites – Boost Your Online Presence
Friday, 05 April 2019
You can grow the online profile of your business through listing your business address and website on these sites. Ensure you are consistent with the information you submit, use the same contact info, email address and logos to ensure that your brand sends the right message across these channels: Google My Business (https://www.google.com/business/) – The
- Published in Website Promotion
New Website for Natural Solutions, A Bedford Osteopath
Wednesday, 03 April 2019
Natural Solutions is a new healthcare clinic based in Bedford and Clapham providing Osteopathy and Complementary Therapies. I’ve been working with them to build a new website, an online booking system and social media content. The website is based upon the WordPress framework, and features custom Google Maps, Mailchimp integration plus an online booking system
- Published in Website Design
A Warning to Website Designers
Monday, 04 March 2019
The Approach: A few weeks ago I was contacted by somebody wanting me to quote for a new website. His name was Justin William. What was initially an innocent enquiry turned out to be a potential credit card scam that could have cost me £4000. I’ve posted my experiences here to publicise this kind of
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Vinyl Directory – A GeoDirectory Based Website
Monday, 10 December 2018
**PLEASE NOTE: This site has been rebuilt and no longer uses GeoDirectory** Vinyl Directory is a new website designed to showcase vinyl record shops and to enable the promotion of record fairs and events worldwide. It was created as an experiment to explore the possibilities of the GeoDirectory plugin system, and to see discover whether
- Published in Websites
WordPress Tip #5 – Prevent Comment Spam
Friday, 09 November 2018
Discussion Settings WordPress is now used for much more than a blog. Themes are setup to utilise the post functionality in many ways. Bots exist which will bombard your site with spam links. You can blog these by default by unchecking the following: Settings > Discussion > Allow people to post comments on new articles
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Hello world!
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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WordPress Tip #??? – Generate Secure Passwords
Thursday, 25 October 2018
https://passwordsgenerator.net/
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