Phil Wylie

WordPress developer, Code Club volunteer & Staffs Web Meetup organiser

Phil Wylie

Why you should use a WordPress child theme

WordPress themes define your website’s look and feel. One of the best things about using WordPress is that you can take advantage of a huge number of ready-made themes. In this article we’ll cover what to look for when choosing a theme and how you can modify an off-the-shelf theme using child themes. Why you […]

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Why WooCommerce? It’s fast, flexible and fully customisable

WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform for WordPress, and it offers a powerful set of features that can help you build an online store quickly and easily. It supports a wide range of payment gateways, shipping methods, taxes, currencies, and languages. Plus, there are thousands of plugins that add even more features to your […]

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How to display Google reviews on your WordPress website

Without customer feedback and ratings, how can you know if a business is any good? Showing potential customers what other people think about your company goes a long way toward making them feel more confident about choosing your business. The Google Places API allows you to do just that by pulling in reviews from Google […]

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Enable WordPress maintenance mode

WordPress maintenance mode is a feature built into WordPress, enabled automatically when installing core/plugin updates. When maintenance mode is active, WordPress returns a 503 HTTP response and displays a “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute” message. Maintenance mode can be useful for developers too. Allowing you to hide your site from […]

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Judging at GradEX22

As a judge at the 2022 graduate exhibition, I saw some truly amazing projects. Here’s my experience of being a part of that process. Judging at GradEX22

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