This week, I was asked a question by someone who uses WordPress for their blog. Sheryl asked me “What is a pingback? And should I approve them?”. So I’m going to describe what a pingback is using as little technical language as possible.
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7 Website Mistakes that Businesses are STILL making in 2013
One of the benefits (or curses!) of being a web developer is that you get asked to give your opinion on other people’s websites. Some people are asking because they are really asking “do you agree my website looks amazing?”, others are asking “my website is rubbish, where do I start to make it better?“.
When using other business services or even when I’ve been asked to give feedback, I encounter a range of website mistakes. Most people use the web these days, so business owners should know better. So this article combines them all into mistakes that I’m still spotting even in 2013!
The painful truth about website backups… (and how to avoid it)
Even in 2013, so many people are not backing up their websites. Over a 2 week period at the end of December, 3 people contacted me because their websites had been hacked. Only one of those people had a …
WordPress Plugin Review – Copify Content Writing Tool
I was recently approached by the team at content-writing service Copify to review their Copify WordPress plugin. I’ve used many content-writing services over the years, so it was a great chance to use Copify once again. So here’s my …
The Complete Guide to finding Premium WordPress Themes
Why use a Premium Theme?
Premium themes are all-inclusive, polished themes designed to work on your WordPress blog. They aren’t insanely expensive, and will often provide you with a lot of added benefits which you simply won’t get with free …
WP Doctors – New Team Member – Farran Lee
Following an extremely long recruitment process, WP Doctors has it’s 1st ever team member (other than just me!). I’m very proud to announce that Farran Lee has started with me today at the new office at Wessex House in Eastleigh …
Snippet to make Gravity Forms Address Entry more British
Gravity Forms is fantastic tool for collecting names, email address and postal addresses. However, GravityForms is a US plugin, so the default form labels are all US or Canada-centric. Here’s a simple tweak that you can add to functions.php to …
How to always have an up-to-date Footer Copyright Date
Although we’re less interested in the actual copyright for a website, correctly setting the copyright year in the footer of a web page/site is something that us web developers and webmasters are keen to do every 1st of January.
However, …
8 Quick Wins to Boost the Performance of your WordPress Website
Website performance tuning is a bit of an art. However, we’re sharing our simple tips for getting great performance from your WordPress blog to massively reduce your page loading times. Reducing loading times can help improve search engine rankings, and improves the experience of the your website for your visitors.
Adding a touch of Snow to your WordPress website
Given that Christmas is just 2 weeks away, it’s no surprise to see a few websites having a Christmas theme. In fact, some websites even have full-on Christmas logos, just like the UK gadget website Zath.
However, if you …
