What do you do when you have your website created? Do you know which platform to host with? Do know how to buy a domain? Purchasing and assigning a domain to your website is not overly difficult, but if it is your first time, it can be a bit overwhelming. What is a web domain? …
What’s great about WordPress is that there are many ways to create a great looking site. You can hand-code a site, or you can use a page builder (or use both). Elementor is one example of a page-builder available, and it is a tool that I started using when I started back into WordPress development, …
Advanced Custom Fields are a great way of adding content to a WordPress site that can be easily edited in the Admin section, without the need to touch the markup/PHP pages. In this guide, I’ll quickly show you how I created a carousel/image slider using Advanced Custom Fields repeater. I wanted to use one for …
Recently I had to change my web hosting provider for an array of reasons such as speed and efficiency reasons. You might also have similar issues with your site; if you do, then follow this guide on how to transfer a website to a new host. Transfer a website to a new host – Where …
8th June 2020 – Online via Zoom The Coronavirus pandemic has caused a lot of disruption and chaos to businesses and people’s way of life in 2020. Seeing friends, family and work colleagues in person has been replaced with Zoom and WhatsApp calls. Normally, WordPress meetups take-place in a set room, but as with meetings …
Today, thanks to the internet, anyone can create a blog and share their thoughts, research and interests to the world. There are many very good blogging platforms that exist, but today I will be discussing two of the big boys, and by the end of this article you should have decided whether to choose WordPress …
WordPress is the most popular content management system on the world-wide-web today, and it is built upon the open-source language, PHP. Typically, WordPress is users update their blog, or their site using the online editor. This is totally fine. But, what if you want to make some serious amendments to the site? Could you run …
March 2020 – a strange, unique and somewhat scary time for every human today. With the outbreak of COVID-19, most of the world’s leaders have declared ‘lockdowns’ in their respected nations. Here in the UK, most workers have been told to work from home if they can. Some, unfortunately, cannot do so. And not only …
Why should you use WordPress for blogging? WordPress is a platform that was originally built to be a blogging platform, but over-time as been developed into much more than a place for words and imagery. Professional looking sites can be created, including e-commerce ones. But, has the blogging side of this wonderful PHP-based platform been …
This is an article about my thoughts on my week without a smartphone. A few weeks ago my smartphone, a Huawei P20 decided to stop charging, and thus like any smartphone, the battery soon died. Luckily, it was still within the manufacturer’s warranty, so I sent it off to my phone provider to be fixed. …
