For many years, this website used the popular WordPress theme Genesis by StudioPress. It remains one of my favourite WordPress frameworks, but in early 2020 I wanted to try something different and opted for the lightweight WordPress design GeneratePress. I can’t speak highly enough about GeneratePress. It’s one of the easiest WordPress themes to optimise … Read more
Offermative is a feature-rich WooCommerce plugin that was designed to help online shops increase conversions. It simplifies and automates an advanced sales funnel, offering customers discounts, special offers, upsells, cross-sells, product recommendations and more. The plugin is highly customisable, allowing you to create offers for customers based on many unique conditions. This personal approach to … Read more
A big part of search engine optimisation involves managing internal and external hyperlinks on your website. Nine attributes are available for the HTML anchor element (<A>). The most important attribute is href as it defines the URL a user should go to, but you will also see the target attribute used frequently on websites. The … Read more
Spotlight is a new social media plugin for WordPress that integrates Instagram into your website. Using Spotlight, you can automatically display your latest photographs and videos. This can increase engagement with your followers, attract new followers and expand your reach. The plugin allows you to connect multiple Instagram accounts and display an unlimited number of … Read more
Pretty Links is a fantastic link tracking WordPress plugin that gives you full control over the links on your website. Developed by Caseproof LLC, the plugin can be used to make your URLs look cleaner, track clicks and categorise links. If you actively use Pretty Links to track important URLs, you will also find that … Read more
Modern Events Calendar is an advanced events calendar solution for WordPress that simplifies the task of managing events, publicising events, and taking bookings. A lite version of the WordPress plugin has over 20,000 installations and counting. This is no surprise given how much functionality is included with it. Whilst it is easy to recommend the … Read more
Form plugins are an essential part of every WordPress website. They can be used to create contact forms, order forms, registration forms, login forms, surveys, quizzes, and more. One of the latest contact form solutions on the market is WS Form Pro. It is a premium form solution that boasts many advanced features such as … Read more
ConveyThis Translate is a WordPress plugin that lets you translate the content on your website into over 100 languages. The plugin works with all WordPress plugins and themes and has been optimised for search engines. One of its selling points is that it does not redirect users to another page using an external service. The … Read more
WP Security Audit Log is a WordPress security plugin by WP White Security that was designed to detect security issues before they arise. This allows you to stop malicious activity before it becomes a problem. The plugin is free to download, however a host of affordable extensions are available that add additional functionality. WP Security … Read more
Barn2 Media are a WordPress company run by Katie and Andrew Keith. I was lucky enough to catch up with Katie in Paris at WordCamp Europe 2017 and talk to them about their products. I took WooCommerce Product Table for a spin in June and was really impressed. One of the other plugins on my … Read more