• GDPR for websites: a brief rundown

    The GDPR is a new EU regulation aimed at strengthening data protection laws for EU (and UK) citizens. This comes into force today, May 25th, and there are several key points that website owners should know about in order to make sure websites are compliant.

  • How to protect your blog from spammers

    WordPress.com blogs are protected by the Akismet comment spam filter. Akismet is pretty good at catching spam, but it is always still learning. You may receive spam comments, spam likes, or even spam likes on comments. There are steps you can take to resolve this. It’s worth noting that if you get a sudden spike…

  • Gutenberg is coming!

    What is Gutenberg? Gutenberg is the new default text editor for WordPress, set to arrive some time in 2018. It will be replacing the current TinyMCE editor. On WordPress.com, its arrival will be dependent on when it is integrated into each of the currently offered themes. For VIP clients it’s integration will be managed allowing…

  • The pros of using WordPress.com

    I love WordPress, and have developed sites using WordPress.org for years. As a WordPress.org fanatic I never thought I’d be writing a blog post about the pros of WordPress.com, but after taking a good hard look at it recently I’ve realised there are actually more advantages to using WordPress.com than I thought. Here’s what I…

  • Something shiny, something new

    Edit: Dec 2018 – This post was originally created as the first post on my WordPress.com blog. Since then the posts on my self hosted WordPress site have been merged to this blog. I’ve been developing websites for years. I’ve come to love WordPress as a platform, and now also enjoy developing plugins. For me,…