Why “off-the-shelf” WordPress themes are better than custom themes
Avoid forking out thousands for bespoke or custom-built themes, which often result in a worse website anyway. A good off-the-shelf…
The Best Contact Form Plugins for WordPress
Review and compare the features, plans, packages and pricing of the leading WordPress Contact Form Plugins When building a WordPress…
The Corporate Child Theme for Genesis
The Genesis framework is the industry standard of WordPress themes and the Gutenberg-ready Corporate child theme that runs on Genesis,…
Gutenberg-ready Genesis Child Themes
I’m a huge advocate for always using the Genesis framework for the vast majority of typical WordPress sites. Since Gutenberg…
Why the Genesis Framework is the best foundation for almost any WordPress site
Of all the thousands of WordPress themes out there, the Genesis framework is the market leader and industry standard for…
Parallax Scrolling and WordPress
Parallax scrolling website designs are becoming increasingly popular and so more WordPress and Genesis theme designers are releasing them in…
The new Gutenberg editor
In December 2018, WordPress released version 5.0 and with it, the much anticipated Gutenberg editor. It was controversial and split…
The problem with page builders in WordPress
(Sorry, that should be “problems”, but it doesn’t scan as well!) TL;DR & full disclosure on Page Builder Plugins While…
The Altitude Child Theme for Genesis
Genesis is the industry standard of WordPress theme frameworks and the Altitude child theme is proving to be one of the most…
Add videos to WordPress the easy way
Simply embed YouTube videos into your WordPress website It is so easy to “embed” videos into your WordPress site. How to embed…
WordPress Posts vs Pages
In WordPress, you can write either pages and posts… Pages For permanent, static content – “timeless” Stick to convention and…
WordPress.org vs WordPress.com
What is the difference? Which to choose? WordPress is a free publishing platform that makes it easy for anyone to…
Photography vs Stock Images
If you’re a good photographer try and take your website’s photos yourself, especially if they feature the people/places/products your site is…
Stock Images – Price Comparison
Compare plans, packages and pricing of the leading stock images and photo libraries ShutterStock vs iStock vs CanStockPhoto vs Fotolia…
A summary of keyboard shortcuts in Chrome
Use WordPress more efficiently and also enjoy a more productive working life in general by learning keyboard shortcuts! While using…
Browser Tips for Efficient Use of WordPress
To get around the front-end and back-end of a WordPress site as efficiently as possible, it helps to use “tabbed…
Creating a new page in WordPress
One of the first things you will learn on our WordPress course is how to add pages to your new…
Is Cloud VPS Hosting the future of all WordPress hosting?
Assuming you have not been living actually ON a cloud for the last year, you will have heard a certain buzz…
Benefits of a WordPress course
If WordPress is so easy to use, why do a training course? Good question! After all, you could just work…