Earlier this year I closed my newsletter and started using the Jetpack Subscriptions module instead to deliver email updates to subscribers. In my quest to increase suscribers, I took the advice of Colm from Create & Code and added a subscription form underneath my blog posts and pages. In this …
Online and offline magazines frequently style the first character of an article. It’s a simple yet effective way of making your content more attractive. The technique is sometimes referred to as “Drop Caps” or “Initial“. Styling the first character of your content is very simple. You can do this manually …
Can outdated articles do more harm than good? This is something I thought a lot about when I relaunched this blog at the end of November. I used to occasionally post silly pictures and videos here. There was nothing wrong with the posts per say but they didn’t really reflect …
Growmatik is a feature-rich marketing service that helps you convert visitors into customers. The service describes itself as an “Omni-Channel Marketing” solution, which means that the focus is on providing users with the right content at the right time. The overall goal is to give people value. In practice, what …
GeneratePress is an efficient WordPress theme that loads quickly on desktops and mobile devices. This blog has been using the premium version of GeneratePress since early 2020 and it’s by far the fastest WordPress theme I have used. Despite the speed of GeneratePress, for a couple of weeks in July …
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 …
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 …
WordPress remains the most popular platform for building websites. There are great alternatives available online, but I truly believe that when it comes to creating content, nothing beats WordPress and its revolutionary post type system. The introduction of the block editor has also improved the experience of creating content with …
Maintaining a successful blog is a lot like driving a steam train. It takes a lot of energy to get it going, but even when you’re on the right track, you need to keep adding fuel to the fire or it will eventually grind to a halt. Failure to follow …
Syntax highlighting is a common feature of Text Editors which uses multiple colours and fonts to help you read and analyse code more easily. They can help you view the structure of code, make comments stand out and quickly point out any errors you have made. It’s a feature that …