Can you have too many plugins on your WordPress website?
In this episode, Mark talks about whether or not you can have too many plugins installed on your WordPress site, as well as how to find out which plugins are slowing your site down.
How to handle updating WordPress to version 5
If this episode of the AskHighrise series we look at the popular question of should I update to WordPress version 5 and how are we handling this with client websites.
A live WordPress Q & A Session
Late in January, we headed off to Italy for our first retreat of 2019. As part of this, we wanted to offer a live WordPress Q&A session. It didn’t quite go to plan due to some technical issues, but we did manage to record our answers to some questions.
Commercial themes and using a child theme
It is episode number 3 of AskHighrise and in this episode, I take a look at best practice when using a theme that is likely to be updated, particular commercially bought themes. In particular, we look at using child themes to help your future developers.
Remote working and my home office
Find out about my home office set up in this second episode on our #AskHighrise video series.
A team retreat to the Italian Dolomites
As a remote team, we feel that it’s important to spend some time together in the same location every now and again. A few times a year we book somewhere to have what we call a ‘retreat’ – to get together socially and for some work. This time we decided that we would visit the Italian Dolomites!
Introducing WP Broadbean Version 3
We are shortly releasing a completely new version of the WP Broadbean plugin. The plugin has been completely re-written from scratch and has some cool new stuff and some things current users need to know about. This post outlines the changes.
Editing content on custom post type archive pages
In this first in a series of AskHighrise, were you can ask us questions, I answer a popular developer question about allowing clients to edit the content of their custom post type archive pages.
Webinar: Integrating Broadbean with WordPress
Are you a recruitment company that uses WordPress? Do you also use Broadbean to post your jobs to multiple destinations and track candidates across those platforms? Would you like to able to post jobs you write in Broadbean to your WordPress website? If so, this webinar is for you as we will guide you through the process and answer your questions.
Highrise ACF Blocks Plugin
Introducing the Highrise ACF Blocks Plugin, providing developers with a suite of customisable Gutenberg blocks including all front-end markup. Just add your own styling and you are good to go.
How to copy and paste content into WordPress
Avoid the dreaded copy and paste errors that mess up your formatting and layouts using these three easy tips.
WordCamp Edinburgh 2018
This weekend was WordCamp Edinburgh and our co-founder Mark represented the Highrise Digital team as well as giving a talk.
Why WordPress maintenance is important
In this blog, we’re going to focus on how maintenance helps you keep your business asset, in this case your WordPress website, performing to its best.
Talk: Transitioning to a block based editor in a pre-Gutenberg world
Watch my WordCamp Manchester 2018 presentation of transitioning to a block-based editor in WordPress in a pre-Gutenberg world.
8 years in WordPress
Talk: How to write extensible WordPress code
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.
WordPress hooks, actions and filters explained
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.
Using JavaScript with Gravity Forms Pages
Twitter ad conversion tracking
If you’re running Twitter ad campaigns you’ll probably want to measure their effectiveness.
Making use of video messages for better communication
How using video messages can provide better communication when working remotely.
Why we no longer host client sites and the advantages it brings
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.
Getting the most out of WordPress users
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.
Getting the most out of Google Hangouts Meet video conferencing
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.
How we implemented the GDPR
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.