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Niches and Development Styles

Lately I’ve been reflecting on my own individual approach to development, trying to define it and figure out how I can communicate it more effectively. If you talk to anyone who’s anybody in the WordPress agency or freelancer space, they will always tell you that you need to find your niche, zone in on that […]
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Homebrew CI/CD with GitHub Updater

Continuous Integrations (CI) is something that is pretty essential in WordPress theme and plugin development workflow, especially when building the theme out from a build system rather than in browser using a page builder. I've recently been using Buddy (https://buddy.works) on a project and have also recently played around with AWS Code Pipeline. I really […]
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How many plugins are too many?

Something I get asked a fair bit by customers with existing WordPress sites is “How many plugins are too many?”.  Well it depends. Firstly let’s just have a quick look at what a WordPress plugin actually does. It is essentially some software that extends the core functionality of WordPress to do something that it doesn’t […]
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Choosing a payment gateway

The payment gateway is probably the most integral part of your e-commerce solution. It’s how you get paid. These days there are a bunch of offerings out there and trying to figure out which one is best for you can be a bit of a challenge. Types of payment gateways Payment gateways can be broadly […]
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Why I recommend avoiding all in one web hosting

This morning I was sitting in the waiting area waiting to get some blood taken for a routine old bastard test. All of a sudden my phone started going off with SMS messages advising me multiple web servers and sites were down. Crap! A quick check at the network status of the upstream provider confirmed […]
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E-commerce for tradies

Productising Services I was having a chat the other day with a good mate of mine, he’s a sparky. He was telling me how he was spending so much time on the phone answering the same questions over and over again, so much so that it is cutting into his time available to actually do […]
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Shopify vs WooCommerce

Aarrrggh not another one you're thinking. The internet is full of these posts, and it is usually written by someone pushing their own barrow. Well I kind of am too, as I develop for WooCommerce, however I certainly don't think WooCommerce is the right fit for everyone. Often when talking with potential clients, I'll even […]
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