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September 6, 2018 0

Attack Of The Clone

Several years back, I had an amazing idea. If I could find a clone of myself, I could double the income coming into my business. This was when my business suffered the attack of the clone. How hard could it be .. The Back Story I was booked solid. I had a full roster of stand alone projects. I had about 50 maintenance clients demanding my attention. I realised it was time for me to move from being a freelancer to running a firm. If I could find someone with my skill set I could bring in even more projects, […]

August 30, 2018 0

Keeping Up With The eJoneses

I’ve got a bit of an issue, I’m always keeping up with the eJoneses. What do I mean by that? I’m always looking at other peoples online business and comparing it to mine and trying to compete or copy what they are doing. Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen this is a route to ruin and unhappiness. I say sod the eJoneses and build a business you love! Other Peoples Businesses We peek over the virtual white picket fence and see other people with X employees, product Y, Service Z and think we need to do that to keep […]

August 23, 2018 0, Case Study

WordPress Is Not The Only Game In Town

I’m going to be black balled from the Guild of WPers when I publish this post, but here we go anyway! WordPress is not the only game in town, sometimes WordPress is not the best tool for every project {sharp intake of breath from the audience}. If there is a pre-made website solution for a particular project you are planning, then please look into that before you try and build a custom solution from WordPress plugins and a theme. WordPress is of course open source and free but any complex problem you are trying to solve probably needs some custom […]

August 16, 2018 Uncategorized

Plugin Quality Control

How can you know if that new plugin you are about to install is of a high quality? How can you setup some kind of plugin quality control process to ensure all new plugins that are added to your site won’t break things? In this video post I’ll show you how to check the quality of any plugins you are about to use. Anyone can create a plugin an upload it to the WordPress plugin, there are approval processes but there is no rigorous checking of the codes compatibility with themes and other plugins, so sadly it’s a very common […]

August 9, 2018 Uncategorized

Guten Tag Gutenberg

You have probably seen the Gutenberg prompts on your website, letting you know that a new editor is coming to WordPress. In this post I want to tell you what Gutenberg is, how it will impact your WordPress site, and how to negate any problems it introduces. Lastly I’m offering a testing service for you to trial the new editor in a safe environment. What Is Gutenberg? It’s a replacement for the standard WordPress text editor, it provides a visual way to drag and drop sections of content and arrange them on your page. If you have used one of […]

February 1, 2018 0

I’m Sorted With Sortd

For the past three months or so, I’ve been using a new tool to manage my projects, this one seems to fit all my needs. It’s called Sortd. I’ve written in the past about the project management methodology Kanban in my post – Kanban Saved My Sanity, Sortd uses this methodology and mixes it with my prime communication medium; email. What Is Sortd Sortd is a Google chrome extension that works with Gmail. It turns your inbox into a manageable Kanban board of tasks to be derived from your emails. Rather than having a huge list of email, that is […]

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