Viewing journal posts in the WordPress Development category
More technical journal entries, talking about specifics of WordPress Development – some of these may be more technical and (we hope) useful for WordPress developers.
In The Studio: WooCommerce delegate directory, a quick turn around WordPress site and staying remote.
As a team, we’ve made the decision to keep working remotely for the foreseeable future. We’ll miss being at Kelham Island – especially for a quick drink or meal on the way home – but we’ve agreed the extra flexibility and saved commuting time are worth it. The team catches up every morning on Zoom […]
Multiple colourways in a single WordPress theme with SASS and CSS variables
We were recently asked to build a network of microsites to support a series of new conferences on a client’s WordPress/WooCommerce powered events site. The site was already setup as a WordPress multisite network, with a parent theme providing the basic site design and customisations to WooCommerce to suit their requirements. As the new conferences […]
In the studio: Custom WooCommerce discounts, comparison tool, custom LearnDash functionality.
Following on from our previous post, here’s what we’ve been working on in the studio in the last few months. The team enjoyed an extended, but different break over Christmas this year – but we hit the ground running with a couple of new projects starting alongside developing new functionality for some existing clients.
Increasing WordPress REST API performance
We’re always looking for ways to improve the speed of customer’s WordPress sites. Recently, we built a piece of search as you type (often abbreviated “SAYT”) functionality for a client’s e-Commerce site which highlighted an opportunity to increase the performance of the WordPress REST API. Although the frontend performance of the website is fast, we […]
In the studio: WooCommerce integrations, WordCamps & Friday afternoons
What we’ve been working on recently Out & about April has been a good month for WordPress events, with the whole team taking a trip to London for WordCamp London. WordPress Sheffield ran on April 9th with a talk from Alex. Alex spoke about the gaming review site, The Well Red Mage which he is […]
Recategorising thousands products in an e-Commerce store.
As part of a redesign of their WordPress based e-Commerce store, a customer of ours needed to recategorise tens of thousands products. Due to their setup, this had to be done on their live site, so carrying out the work on a staging site and copying up the database wasn’t an option. We decided the […]
