On WordPress
WordPress is a full-featured CMS and blogging system, used to create more websites than any other CMS in the world. Its strength comes from the masses of contributors to the WP community, publishing and updating thousands of plugins and themes daily. As a WordPress developer, I use it to power everything from tiny personal blogs, to massive multi-national corporate sites for my clients.
Latest WordPress Posts
Latest posts from the WordPress category on the blog.
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WordCamp, Italy, and inspiration
I travelled to Turin, Italy for WordCamp Europe 2024 with Gaz last month. This was the first time we’d spent any meaningful amount of time together since our separation –… read this post ⟶
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6 Things I Do to Make Gutenberg Development Easier
Six things I do to make developing gutenberg-based WordPress websites easier to develop and maintain. read this post ⟶
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10 Micro Optimisations for a Faster WordPress Website
(Update 2019-08-07: this article is now available in Brazilian Portuguese: 10 dicas para um site WordPress mais rápido) — Website speed is a huge factor in your search engine (specifically… read this post ⟶
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WordCamp Europe 2019, Berlin #WCEU
I had the privilege of attending WordCamp Europe 2019 this past weekend, thanks to the team at Wordfence who flew me out there & paid for my ticket. I was… read this post ⟶
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Security alert: pipdig insecure, DDoSing competitors
pipdig, WordPress theme and plugin provider, caught distributing malicious code to customers and DDoSing competitors read this post ⟶
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The StrongMum Project
My attempts at maintaining my strength and fitness this year have been indisputably more consistent (and as a result, visible in my overall health and weight). I’ve been wanting to… read this post ⟶
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Forcing a ‘read more’ link on WordPress excerpts even when excerpt text is set
Wow, that title is a bit of a mouthful. OK, so let me decipher: you can customise WordPress excerpts to add a “read more” link to post excerpts, e.g. as… read this post ⟶
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Genesis column shortcodes with custom classes
(tl;dr download .zip here) I, more often than not, roll out WordPress sites these days using Genesis as my framework of choice for theme development. It’s mostly because I’m lazy,… read this post ⟶
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How to: make the whole WordPress excerpt clickable
A client recently asked me to make the post excerpts in their blog page clickable. This seems like a reasonable request and the logical answer (if you know your WordPress… read this post ⟶
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Pages disappear from admin after registering custom post type
As I’ve fallen foul of this twice in as many days (I must be having one of those weeks) I thought it worth mentioning in case anyone else does the… read this post ⟶
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I can:
- Write & modify WordPress plugins
- Create bespoke themes, update existing ones, use a variety of theme frameworks including Genesis
- Rescue “hacked” WordPress websites
- Move sites from Joomla, Drupal etc to WordPress
- & more…
If you’d like an experienced WordPress developer to help you with your project, reach out to me via my WordPress development agency, Ultimately Better Ltd.
WordPress Plugins
I finally wrote some WordPress plugins! They’re not in the official repo, because that is effort and I’m too busy working on actual work to do it, but if you’d like to give them a try you can find them on GitHub:
- Conditionally Allow Gutenberg on WooCommerce Products – a simple one-file plugin that conditionally allows the Gutenberg editor on WooCommerce products allowing a gradual migration to the block editor on larger WooCommerce sites.
- Jem’s Genesis Columns — adds shortcodes which you can use to format your content (posts, pages) into columns (like this page!); adds support for extra classes missing from the ‘official’ Genesis Column Shortcodes plugin. Must be used in conjunction with the Genesis framework, a Genesis theme, or by people who’ve acquired the column stylings.
- Media Locations — adds a media taxonomy which allows you to assign locations to media which can then be pulled in to posts, pages, templates etc programmatically.
Useful Links
- WordPress Hosting at Clook.net
- WordPress Resources (things I use on my websites)