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What is the different between Paid Search Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation
Summary: Paid Search Marketing is paying for adverts to send people to your website. Search Engine Optimisation is the process to improve your website so it ranks well when someone searches without paying Google. Paid Search Marketing Paid Search Marketing is using a service like Google AdWords to do online advertising. It can be a significant…
Content Archives in WordPress
Here are my recommendations for best practices for the Web Design for Content Archives: If you have been blogging for a while and now you have built up some archive pages for each category, what are the best options for dealing with those archive pages? Clicking from page to page versus infinite scrolling I don’t like infinite…
Web Design Testing
Web Design Testing is checking whether the website works and looks how you expect it to work and look. Quality Assurance can be very complicated. Or it can be simple depending on your goals and budget. Why Bother with Web Design Testing? You will find errors that your web designer might have overlooked! When a web designer focuses…
WordPress development using Visual Studio
Nowadays I’m a WordPress developer. I spend my days writing PHP code for custom functionality provided to my customers as well as reading other plugins’ code to integrate with them and often modify their behaviour. Up until recently, I’ve been using Netbeans, which is a free IDE. I have found it to be okay for the…
Woocommerce Product Page SEO and Gingerbread
Here are some tips to help you with your SEO on product pages in your ecommerce website. Just for fun, I’ve used gingerbread as an example. It’s a gingerbread man template for quilting, not the delicious gingerbread men for eating! Just as well the Christmas and Holiday season is over and the New Year diets…
Force Cached CSS And JS files to be Refreshed After Change In WordPress
This is just a very short post for you WordPress developers out there. I had a case yesterday where a customer was not seeing a bug-fix on their site after I’d made a change to a javascript file. The customer was seeing the wrong version of the javascript file. In this case, the customer was…
How To Filter WordPress Admin Lists Programmatically
I’m busy developing some custom functionality around WooCommerce and this customer has the concept of a Master Order from which normal WooCommerce orders are generated. So I’ve created a Custom Post Type for this Master Order type and within WordPress admin I have a menu option that shows a list of these Custom Post Types.…