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WordPress drop down menus for tablets.

Keeping the navigation of your website as simple as possible is always a good idea, however sometimes you just have to use multi level navigation, and commonly a drop down menu is used. Recently we had...

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What is a featured image in WordPress?

So what is the featured image in WordPress? and what does it do? Well it really depends on the theme that’s currently being used. We like to use featured images to represent posts/articles on the...

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Improving WordPress search results pages.

If you have a growing website then no matter how careful you are with organising your websites’ content there comes a time when adding search functionality becomes necessary. We were recently asked to...

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Why should I keep WordPress updated?

Wordpress is an open source system, which means that the source code that powers it is freely available for anyone to download and use. This also means that anyone looking to hack into a WordPress...

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What are WordPress plugins?

WordPress plugins are used to add to or expand on the functionality of your WordPress powered website. Commonly installed WordPress plugins cover such topics as contact forms, comment spam, and SEO...

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What’s the difference between WordPress Categories and Tags?

Most people getting started with WordPress have some difficulty understanding the difference between the categories and tags taxonomies. You know the feeling, you’ve written a great post, now which...

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Getting Started with Google Analytics

Google’s Analytics offers a powerful set of statistical reporting tools to gather information about just about anything to do with your websites performance. With it you can find out where visitors are...

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How to Create a Private Client Area in WordPress.

It has been a couple of years since we originally wrote our plugin recipe for a secure client area in WordPress, which proved pretty popular, but we’d now recommend a different method to achieve a...

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Guide to Styling Hyperlinks

#example-link-1 a:link, #example-link-1 a:visited, #example-link-1 a:hover, #example-link-1 a:focus, #example-link-1 a:active { color: blue; background: none; text-decoration: none; } /*underline*/...

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How does Responsive Website Design work?

Responsive design aims to provide users with an optimal reading, navigation and experience regardless of the device being used to view it. This...

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Dynamic Excerpt Lengths in WordPress.

Excerpts are used in loads of places in WordPress themes, and adjusting the lengths of them is very easy using the functions already built into WordPress. However there’s one styling aspect that...

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Easy Pull Quotes using CSS & JQuery.

Everyone now understands the importance of having engaging, relevant content on their websites, and with more content the need to give more attention to typography becomes apparent. Pull-quotes are...

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Equal sized navigation menu with jQuery in WordPress.

A couple of recent WordPress websites we built called for having the menu items equally spaced out across the whole width of the containing div. Working in percentages it’s pretty easy to work of...

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WordPress and Word Processors.

Where Where do inline styles come from? When redesigning websites one of the problems I have to deal with is how to handle importing old content that has inline styles embedded. A lot of the culprits...

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Review: WooCommerce Membership by RightPress.

What follows is a real world case study in how I used the WooCommerce membership plugin by RightPress. Background. One of my clients originally approached me with a membership website running on...

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New Look for 2017

One of the effects of updating a lot of other people websites is that I’m constantly reminded of the need to update my own website. Thoughts such as ‘that’s nice – I should use that on my own website’...

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How much to charge for a blog post or sponsored post?

I recently received an email asking if I was willing to publish sponsored posts on my website. I’ve received a lot of these...

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How to Create a Private Client Area in WordPress

It has been a couple of years since we originally wrote our plugin recipe for a secure client area in WordPress, which proved pretty popular, but we’d now recommend a different method to achieve a...

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Guide to Styling Hyperlinks

#example-link-1 a:link, #example-link-1 a:visited, #example-link-1 a:hover, #example-link-1 a:focus, #example-link-1 a:active { color: blue; background: none; text-decoration: none; } /*underline*/...

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How does Responsive Website Design work?

Responsive design aims to provide users with an optimal reading, navigation and experience regardless of the device being used to view it. This...

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