I know, right. I don’t say things like “pretty cool” but AMP stories are now called Web Stories, have a WordPress plugin, are officially supported by Google, and feature a simple drag-and-drop interface to allow you to create mobile friendly content which looks like this:
Web development
If I talk about web development, I will place that post into this category. These are some – not all – of my thoughts about web development.
You can find that content, below.
Should you run your eCommerce business on Amazon, Etsy or WooCommerce?
Amazon and Etsy are a great, low impact, place to dip your toe into the eCommerce waters, but if you have long term plans, running your own store will ultimately become more profitable and give you more flexibility. Here, I dig into what you might want to consider, around some key topics:
The Power of Screencast Videos
Screencast videos are a really powerful way of demonstrating web development issues to clients. Whether showing the impact of changes from back-end to front-end or from third party tools like Pingdom, clients love to see behind the curtain – but ideally in an explainer video lasting no more than 10 minutes.
How to add Structured Data in WordPress
My SEO colleagues shorthand “Structured Data” to “schema” but as a developer, the word schema has a meaning… they mean: Schema.org structured data.
That’s the subject of this blog post:
How to add Schema.org structured data to your WordPress website – with or without WooCommerce – in order to get some Rich Snippets happening in your Google search results.
WooCommerce 3.5.3 Released – Fixes WP 5.0.2 Order Table Missing Issue
The WooCommerce core team just shipped WooCommerce 3.5.3, which is really a 1 issue patch release, which resolves the not-so-insignificant issue of the Orders list table (in wp admin) going missing on upgrade to last night’s WordPress 5.0.2 release.
“No code” and client services: developer, be less rockstar
Kelsey Hightower made the following excellent statements on “no code” (in relation to a wider discussion about serverless and Kubernetes, here which I highly recommend giving a listen to):
Meet me in Berlin, June 20-22
I am attending WordCamp Europe 2019 from 20th – 22nd June in Berlin, Germany.
Need help setting up WooCommerce Shipping rules?
A lot of my clients come to me looking for help with a range of WooCommerce problems, and one of the main things many don’t have so much concept of (before they get started with their stores) is shipping.
Google Search Console Error: Either “offers”, “review”, or “aggregateRating” should be specified
Here’s an error which has started showing up for a lot of stores’ product category pages – WooCommerce stores in particular – in Google Search Console: