Helping customers to find things quickly reduces frustration and can lead to higher sales. The search functionality provided out-of-the-box by WordPress is at best considered basic. With customer expectations set by the likes of Google and Amazon, how can we improve the often overlooked on-site search experience? Improving WordPress search with Algolia
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April 12, 2019 — 0
BEM: creating maintainable front end code
The naming of things is notoriously difficult in the world of programming. BEM (Block, Element, Modifier) is a naming convention used by developers to name HTML and CSS classes. The idea behind it is to create a naming convention that makes it easy to identify the different parts of a block and the elements within. […]
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How to redirect a domain using DNS only
I wanted to share a service I found recently, redirect.center, a personal project by Udlei Nati that allows you to easily redirect your domain name just by changing its DNS settings—simple to implement and requiring no maintenance. The service can be used for several different applications: Redirect from the bare domain (aka apex, root or […]
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A Graduate’s Guide to Applying for Web Development Placements
I had a pleasant time yesterday visiting Staffordshire University. Ian and I went along to represent iWeb. We were there along with representatives from a number of local companies in the web industry. The University had put on a session for second year web students. The aim was to help prepare them for making placement […]
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How To Keep Your WordPress Website Secure
LinkedIn, Ashley Madison, Yahoo! and Mossack Fonseca… what do these companies all have in common? Large-scale data breaches have received much coverage in the media recently, prompting a renewed interest in online privacy and security. Today, we’re going to look at WordPress website security and how we can help prevent ourselves from falling victim to […]
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