WordPress in version 3.7 introduced a most welcome and a game changing feature – automatic updates. This slightly controversial-at-the-time feature allowed WordPress to automatically update minor or security releases without the need of user intervention. This was needed, as more WordPress installations out there are secure and safe, with fewer bugs. It is a good…
We are big fans of Gravity Forms here at Winwar Media. It’s a great plugin that allows you to quickly and easily build forms. But from a developer standpoint, it is a dream. You can extend it so much. We’ve built holiday booking forms, quizzes and even a reddit clone using Gravity Forms. It’s superb.…
One of the major sources of traffic to blog posts is social media, but like anything, it needs a clear and coherent strategy for it to work. However, if you are a small, one man band, it can be daunting to begin with to manage not only your blog, but also your Facebook or Twitter…
Yeah, I know. It’s March. We’re about 4 months out from Black Friday 2016, so why am I writing a Black Friday article now? Well, over the festive break I looked at the stats from the Black Friday sale I had both here as well as on WP Email Capture, and I think my strategy…
Recently we’ve had an issue on one of our sites whereby we had a post archive on a WordPress menu. When the page was shown, then the active class would be shown on the site, and styled accordingly. The problem occurred was when we switched from the archive to the individual post, and the menu…
Today I’m delighted to announce the release of eBay Feeds for WordPress 1.8! This version adds a small addition – the ability to wrap each individual item in the feed with a div class. This will help users target each individual options for styling or javascript styling (you can see an example of targeting on an…
Recently in Google Chrome you may or may not have seen the warning that WordPress Not Secure in Google Chrome. This is quite alarming, but there’s nothing to be afraid of. Your site is explicitly being told as being not secure, and this happens quite a lot in Google Chrome mainly. What Has Happened? Since Google Chrome…
As SEO has become more complicated over the past few years, it’s become more of it’s own siloed art form in of itself. Gone are the days of your SEO’s managing your link building, but now it’s more of an analytical role, research and also testing & fixing things. 2017 promises to be a fairly big…
So this year has been a remarkably same old, but brand new. In my round up for 2015 my goal was to Diversify…yet focus. I’d implemented 2 week sprints midway through 2015, and also reduce the amount of sites I looked at in the year. Nevertheless it’s been a great year for Winwar Media, as…
I was approached recently by the owners of Widget Options to see if I would be willing to give a review of their plugin. I’m more than happy to cast my eyes over the plugin and give my thoughts on it. This week on the site I’ll be reviewing Widget Options What is The Widget Options…
