Articles that explain website work
Read about website design, technical quality, search, content and the systems behind an online business. Each article is written to help you understand a choice and what the work behind it means for your business.
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What to check before changing your website’s hosting and care
Moving a website to new hosting fixes the hosting. It does not fix a plugin that breaks the checkout, a form that stopped delivering last month or a connection to your accounting software that nobody has tested since it was set up. Before you agree to a care arrangement with anyone, work out what the…
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WooCommerce Account page fix for Genesis themes
The latest update of the WooCommerce ecommerce plugin includes a new tabbed My Account page template to a allow for easier user account navigation. Unless you have a purpose built WooCommerce theme, the new WooCommerce account page layout on the front end for users will be functional but won’t look that great for the user. From…
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Add Google Fonts with Kirki to the Customizer
Adding the right Google fonts to your website can be a time consuming exercise if you don’t know what you are looking for, or what particular look you are after For most folk this because they can not say “yes I like that” until they see it in the website itself. Adding a Google Font is…
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New Turnkey eCommerce Websites
Turnkey eCommerce Websites – Coming very soon! We are super excited to announce something that we have been working on for the last few months. Setting up an eCommerce website today can be tricky and confusing at the best of times. There are so many pieces of the puzzle that are required to be put together, elements that are online…
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WooCommerce & Genesis Theme setup – Part 2
Part two of our WooCommerce & Genesis Theme website step by step set up guide, we install and integrate the StudioPress’s Daily Dish Pro theme. In this guide we run through adding pages, navigational menus and populating the sidebar with content.
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WooCommerce & Genesis Theme setup – Part 1
First up, let’s make a plan! This is where most e-commerce websites go wrong, or costs sky rocket out of control. With a lack of a plan each decision you make as you go along will impact your choices further into the WooCommerce store step up, and you may not like those available choices. From…
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Taking control of the WooCommerce styles
The WooCommerce plugin is a great way to build an e-commerce store on your WordPress blog or website without coding required. Sometimes though the default styling does not always suit your theme, here are two options to override the default WooCommerce styles when using a Genesis child theme. Option 1 – Using the Themed Toolbox plugin If you…
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Drip-feed content via your WordPress website
Controlling the delivery of content to a user via a drip-feed membership website is a great way to establish yourself as an authority, while maintaining control on how your users digest the content. In this post we will run through setting up a drip fed online self help guide that will deliver a new article each…
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Memberships- building a free membership website
Creating a free membership portal on your website is a great way to deliver content and generate a user/email list. In this quick guide we run through how to set up a free membership section on your WordPress website at no cost to you.
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Using our free stock images
Having recently moved our free stock images to a new license system to allow folk to use our images commercially in printed material. We still wanted to offer users the ability to use our image for free. Introducing Exchange a free license for our stock images All the images available on Duelling Pixels Photos can be…
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Adding a shop menu on a Genesis themed website
Two menus by default are built into most WordPress themes built with the Genesis framework, these are the primary and secondary menus. Generally these menus are great to use when building an e-commerce store, but sometimes there can be a little confusion for the website administrator on which menu to use for each store menu item…