Recently travelling on public transport around in the North East, I noticed the design of the interface on the passenger information displays had been updated recently. Bus operator Go North East has invested heavily into various iterations of their “talking bus” features. This typically involves auditory announcements for each stop, reminders of the service and […]
For many websites, adding your own photography can give a more authentic appearance which helps immediately build trust with website visitors and like the common phrase, a photograph is worth a thousand words. While professional photography will always give a professional and authentic feeling to your website, it can be very expensive. Stock Photography isn’t […]
If you own a Plesk dedicated server, or a Plesk virtual private server with full server access and host a number of WordPress websites you may have seen a large amount of traffic hitting xmlrpc.php which is a typical and easy to guess endpoint to WordPress in an attempt to take down and use up […]
Zoho Connect is a great tool to use for many businesses as it provides a wide range of functionality including task management, discussions and more. It also features a version of Zoho Creator, Zoho’s zero-code app creation platform with enough usage limits to get good usage out of it. For example, an employee holiday booking […]
WooCommerce is an advanced shopping cart system, most of which doesn’t show itself from the outside, with a lot of internals. At the time of writing, WooCommerce reconmends using it’s objects (WC_Product, WC_Cart) taking it into an object-orientated platform as opposed to how much of WordPress operates in a functional style (although this is changing […]
Recently a big update one of the best form plugins, Gravity Forms 2.5 was finally released to the world. The update brings with it a lot of new and long awaited functionality such as built-in columns and accessibility updates. It also brings with it a redesigned form builder, similar to Gutenberg which while controversial aligns […]
Plesk, the globally recognised control panel, popular with many people who host a bunch of different WordPress websites out of the box doesn’t provide WP CLI to use if you login as root, or another user into the server. This means when users expect WP CLI to “just work” they may end up needing to […]
Recently came a situation where I needed to copy manually a small amount of content when migrating sites, on different servers but both configured to only serve the website in question from the same domain name. It turned out to be a little trickier than expected to access the two sites on one machine. The […]
Most of the thermostats on the market seem to be built to the cheapest possible price, without at all considering there’s an end user. The end user wants to be able to control the heating in their house easily. Ideally without reading a 100 page manual. Some would say a full touchscreen display, wifi and […]