If you haven’t tried racing on Zwift yet, you should. It’s fast, furious and fun (if you call screaming in agony fun!). I started racing late in 2021 when a member of my cycling club posted saying that a new season of team-based racing was about to begin and did anyone want to enter the…
I’m feeling inspired, confident, connected, and very very tired. I’m on the train home from WordCamp London 2019. Recently, I’ve seen some tweets and heard people talking about how they don’t go to WordCamps anymore – or that giving talks at them is a waste of time. Everyone has their own reasons and motivations for…
It’s been years since I did any significant work on my own website. All of my attention has been on my WordPress development company. This site, which used to house all of my work, thoughts, and online identity has been gathering dust and was starting to smell a bit musty. A few things have conspired to…
In 2004, I was at the University of Edinburgh studying music technology. One of our modules required us to present something in front of the class. It was a small class, and I knew my other classmates well, but rather than standing up and talking for 5 minutes, I skipped the session and failed the…
As you might have seen already, 2016 has brought some significant changes to my work life. After six and a half years of being a WordPress freelancer, I’m excited to announce the start of a new business and partnership – Highrise Digital. I’ve loved freelancing. I’ve loved the freedom that it brings, both in terms…
As of today (21st April 2015) Google will be actively penalising websites that aren’t what they call “mobile-friendly”. Back in November 2014 Google announced that it was adding a “mobile-friendly” label to mobile web searches. This was to ensure that mobile users could choose to view content that was suitable for small screens using a touch…
Search engines have a big problem. There is so much data out there and it’s hard to work out what is what. Humans are great at inferring the context of web content, but this is much more difficult for Google, Bing, Yahoo!, etc.. That’s why the biggest search engines have come together to create a…
Website speed matters. Nobody likes browsing a slow website. If your site is slow, your visitors are more likely to leave and go to a competitor’s website. It’s not just your users who like speedy websites, Google does too. Today I recorded a video showing you two ways to test your website performance. Both methods…
There comes a time in a small business’ growth that the owner’s management tasks take over the technical ones. When I started out about 80% of my time was spent building websites. As my business has grown I’ve had to deal with more support, administration, marketing, and project management. This has left less time for…
By default custom excerpts don’t have a ‘read more’ link of any kind. I wanted my custom excerpts to look the same as my dynamically generated ones. It’s a simple code change:
Do you want more traffic to your WordPress website? Are you new to SEO for WordPress ? Then start here. You have a beautiful website, with great content, but where are all the visitors? A website is next to useless unless people can find it. How do they do that? Using search engines. SEO, or…
You’ve built your website, you’re managing to drive traffic to it through good SEO, but is it providing a good return on investment? It’s important to think about the purpose of your website. What is the main business goal that you’re trying to achieve? The most common answer is to generate leads, to drive more…