When Elmet Lions Club decided to resurrect the Great Selby Bike Ride after Selby Lions Club closed down we decided to bring it into the 21st century in terms of its organisation and set about doing so in the following manner:- We set up a Paypal business account and applied for charity status with Paypal […]
Track the Click
If you have a website with external links how do you know how effective they have been at driving traffic to that site, be it an e-commerce site, a companion website, technical content or blog article? The answer is a WordPress plugin called Track the Click. It’s free and will log all the traffic that […]
Death of the High Street
“Death of the HIgh Street” is a headline you will have often seen in newspapers as retail chain after retail chain succumbs to the steady shift in the pattern of sales from shops to online, exacerbated by various lockdowns. If you are a smaller local business you may feel that it won’t affect you to […]
GitHub, Inc. is a subsidiary of Microsoft which provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features. It has always worked 100% remote and has now published an e-book about remote working based on its own experience. […]
I’ve added WordPress to my smartphone and can now add posts and pages from there. Useful when out and about
This is what WordPress said about its 2017 flagship theme:- Twenty Seventeen brings your site to life with header video and immersive featured images. With a focus on business sites, it features multiple sections on the front page as well as widgets, navigation and social menus, a logo, and more. Personalize its asymmetrical grid with […]
Create a Google my Business account add a location map to your website & add reviews to your WordPress site
Sign up to a Gmail account with Google at gmail.com. You will need this account to access several Google services. Sign up to a Google my Business account at https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/business/ Await the postcard from Google with the code which will enable you to verify your location so that it appears on Google Maps. Search for […]
Look what Google’s Site Kit does for you
Google provides you with four useful tools to monitor the performance of your website: Analytics, Search Control, PageSpeed Insights and Adsense Each has its own website, meaning that you have to go to each of them for a complete overview of your website’s performance. NOT ANY MORE! Google’s WordPress plugin combines all four tools into […]
Chromebooks revisited
I wrote a short while ago about buying my first Chromebook, attracted by the price and performance and have virtually replaced my pc with it. I had already switched to G-Suite for most of my office applications while my WordPress website development was carried out online. I occasionally get called on to make AV (Powerpoint) […]
Automattic recently updated WordPress to version 5.0 and at the same time added the Gutenberg (block) editor as the default content editor. If you are not familiar with the block editor it is possible to continue to use the Classic editor that you are used to. Just install and activate the Classic Editor plugin from […]