Two months ago I talked about how my technology YouTube channel passed the 1,000 subscriber mark. This is an important milestone as channels typically see a lot more growth once they have reached it because YouTube starts ranking videos higher. This has turned out to be true for me. Over the last two months I … Read more
One of the biggest announcements at WordCamp Europe this year was the release of the page builder Gutenberg (other important issues, such as WooCommerce doubling their renewal fees, were not brought up). Gutenberg represents a step forward for WordPress and helps it tackle other platforms such as Medium, Wix, and SquareSpace. Whilst I appreciate the … Read more
It is now four days since I arrived back from my trip to Paris for WordCamp Europe 2017. The weather was amazing, the drinks were flowing, and I met a lot of great people at the event. How could I not have fun in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This was … Read more
It is two days since I returned from Paris where I attended WordCamp Europe 2017. Since I am struggling for time today, and since my WordCamp recaps always end up being thousands of words long (see my recaps for 2015 and 2016), I will not be able to publish the review of my Paris journey … Read more
WP File Download is a feature packed WordPress file manager solution from JoomUnited. It allows you to upload files to your website and categorise them. You can then display files and categories of files to website visitors in a user-friendly AJAX powered directory. It has a lot of great features such as search engine friendly … Read more
WooCommerce Product Table is a premium WooCommerce extension that allows you to display your products in an interactive table. Developed by the English company Barn2 Media, the plugin is responsive and has full support for custom taxonomies and custom fields. The product tables it creates look great and enhance the experience for customers by giving … Read more
WordPress caching plugins are an essential part of optimising a WordPress website. For a long time I used W3 Total Cache. Packed with hundreds of options, W3 Total Cache could be quite overwhelming for WordPress beginners, but the reason I stopped using it is because it was causing some SEO related issues. In 2014 I … Read more
Yesterday I made a small but significant change to this blog and returned my blog index to the front of this domain. Over the last few years we have seen many popular blogs move their blog index off their home page and use a landing page instead. This allows them to push products and services … Read more
SendPulse is an online marketing service that allows you to connect to people in a wide number of ways. Through their platform you can send out emails, text messages, and push notifications. They offer an SMTP server service too. The service uses artificial intelligence to increase open rates. They state that open rates can increase … Read more
According to the developers of WooCommerce, their WordPress eCommerce plugin has been downloaded over 24 million times and now powers over 28% of all stores online. That is a staggering statistic that highlights how many people are making money using WooCommerce. One person who knows about this is Chris Mason from WooCurve. His company are … Read more