When developing WordPress plugins and themes it makes sense to allow to them to be extended and modified. To do this you need to write extensible code. I recently presented a talk to the WordPress Cheltenham meet-up group about how to write extensible WordPress code. Watch the video and view the slides in this post.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could alter the way WordPress works to suit any project you are working on?
In this article, I am going to show you exactly how you can do this, by introducing what I think is the most powerful feature of WordPress – hooks. Also known as actions and filters, we will look at what they are, how to use them and why they can really change the way you develop with WordPress.
How using video messages can provide better communication when working remotely.
For a while now, to keep things simple for clients we have offered to host client sites on our servers. Increasingly over the last few months this has become more and more a problem for us. In this article I will outline why we took the decision not to host client sites anymore, and what benefits this will being our clients.
WordPress allows us to have multiple website users as well as users who access to different things. In this post we look at how users can be setup and the security implications of different user levels.
Being a remote team, we make a lot of use of video calling, including video calling with our clients. To do this we tend to use a Google product called Meet. This article explores how to get the best out of using Google Meet.
A few weeks ago in late May, new data protection laws came into force known as the GDPR. This post outlines how we have prepared for this new regulation and the steps we have taken to make sure that we are compliant.
Over the last few months, we’ve been focussing on improving the way we manage our projects using Trello to communicate and organise our tasks. Here’s how we have been doing it.
At Highrise Digital, we are an entirely remote company. We all work from different locations, often from home. It works really well and offers benefits to our clients too. Here is how we do it.
Highrise Digital are experienced in integrating Broadbean and LogicMelon with WordPress. We offer 2 solutions and in this post we are going to look at the differences between each.
In this article we outline what we think are the top 6 features which make for a good intranet.
An intranet is a great way to connect people in the digital age and make them feel part of a team even though they may be in different physical places. In this article we look at why you might need a company intranet.
When working with Google maps, you must always interact with their API which means your application, or website will need an API key. This post looks at how to obtain your Google maps API key so that it will work on your domain.
At the WordPress Blackburn meet-up in April, our co-founder Mark spoke about how he uses Google Chrome’s developer tools.
We held a webinar all about the new way of editing content in WordPress called Gutenberg.
We held a webinar about the up and coming changes in WordPress relating to the way content is edited, codenamed Gutenberg.
Writing a detailed specification will help set your project up for success, and allow development teams to give more accurate quotes. Read our guide to help you write a technical specification for your project.
Learn about our WordPress developer mentorship programme, from how it started to where we are today.
Whilst on our first retreat of the year, we held a Facebook live session where we discussed general questions and answers from viewers about WordPress. It was really fun!
In this article we look at what are SSL certificates, why does your website needs one and how do you install one.
