WordPress

What is WooCommerce? WooCommerce is WordPress’ answer to an online shop. It’s an extension that turns an ordinary WordPress website into an online store.  We can think of WordPress as the base software on which WooCommerce rests on to increase functionality. As standard the online shop modules includes: Product creation & management, Order...

Adding & amending a variable product in your WordPress Online Shop (WooCommerce) This article expands on our previous WooCommerce 'How To' article where we run through adding and amending a 'Simple product' to your WooCommerce [WordPress] online shop. If you are unsure on how to do this, please do take a look at that article, because we will be picking up from...

The essential guide to managing and adding Users in your WordPress website Today we're running through adding and editing a user in your WordPress website. Why would you need to do this? You may need to add a new admin (i.e. a new support colleague) or remove access of a previous web developer/support company. So let's dig in. We'll start from the...

An introduction to Gutenberg; WordPress' native block builder Well, today, we'll be introducing WordPress' native editor, Gutenberg. We'll be covering its history and benefits over using other, third-party drag 'n' drop editors like Elementor. In subsequent articles, we'll be covering using Gutenberg, not only for creating on-page content but also for editing certain aspects of your theme. The...

Our top 7 tips on using Gutenberg for beginners In today's article, we wanted to highlight our top 7 tips and tricks that will make editing with Gutenberg, the WordPress native editor, easier and more efficient. Gutenberg is awesome. There's so much you can do with Gutenberg, which will be covering in articles to come. But for now, read...

Is WordPress right for your business? The short answer is, it depends. But that's not a very good answer nor very helpful, so we'll look at a couple of scenarios and expand as best we can. What is WordPress? WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that powers over 43% of all websites on the internet....

Adding & amending a page in your WordPress website Adding & editing your pages in WordPress is very similar to adding and editing posts. That's largely because WordPress tries to be as simple and as user-friendly as possible, meaning you have one less thing to learn! In this guide we'll be running through how to add a page, edit...

Adding & amending a product in your WordPress Online Shop (WooCommerce) In this article, we'll be running through the process, step by step, of adding & amending a product in your WordPress website. To allow a WordPress site sell products online, we're assuming your site is using WooCommerce, the official online shop extension for WordPress. For ease of use we will...

Logging into your WordPress website In this guide we'll be taking you through the process, step by step, of logging into your WordPress website. You will need to already have a login account set up on your website for this to work. That's because you'll need the following information to actually log in: Your website's...

What is WordPress? WordPress is a content management system or CMS for short. It allows users to effortlessly manage pretty much all aspects of their site from an admin panel (oppose to rummaging around in the code). Starting out as a simple blogging platform on 27 May 2003, it has since grown to...

Navigating the WordPress admin dashboard In this latest guide, we'll be looking at and helping you navigate through your WordPress admin dashboard. We'll run through the key areas of a WordPress back office, namely: Posts, Pages & Menus, so that you should have a grounding in managing the content on your website. Let us begin....

Adding & amending a blog post in your WordPress website Today, we'll be running through the process of adding & amending a blog post in your WordPress website. This guide assumes that you have access to your website's back office and are already logged in. We start this guide from the admin dashboard. If you don't have access, please contact...

Managing your menu(s) within your WordPress admin panel Good news, managing your menus in WordPress has never been easier! In this article we'll be running through, step by step, the process of adding and removing menu items such as pages and posts, as well as creating new menus. This guide assumes you're already logged in to your WordPress...

Top 5 problems (and solutions) with Wordpress websites As web designers & developers we often tend to just focus on the positives when it comes to the platform we build with. However, we try to run an as open & as honest a service as we possibly can, so we're laying it all on the table... We'll be...