We don’t generally talk about hardware in this blog – usually we’re more concerned with software and the WordPress ecosystem. But there’s a first time for everything… Read More

As Linux continues to inch towards its famous yet tantalisingly out of reach “year of the desktop“, it’s inevitable that web and software development professionals in incre… Read More

This really ought to be a simple thing: Find a desktop browser that is stable, fast, accepts commonly-used extensions, and doesn’t abuse your right to privacy. Spoiler: it’s not… Read More

Now that ClassicPress has been in existence for just over two years, the number of plugins created specifically for it is steadily growing. This is in addition to the vast majority of WordPr… Read More

Let’s say you are creating a new ClassicPress or WordPress plugin. It’s quite a big plugin and you’ve decided it should have its own top level entry in the admin menu. Now… Read More

Just over 18 months ago, the first alpha version of ClassicPress was released to the world. At the time it was essentially a copy of WordPress 4.9 with the word “WordPress” chang… Read More

NOTE: THIS IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF OUR OLDER POST WITH NEW USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS UPDATED FOR FEBRUARY 2020. We’ve written this in order to help out fellow users of PLDT Home Fibr in… Read More

These days SEO experts recommend that the permalinks for WordPress and ClassicPress websites are set to ‘post name’. If you have an older site then you may have chosen a differen… Read More

Here’s a quick tip for ClassicPress theme developers. If you want to remove all trace of the WordPress/ClassicPress built-in emoji scripts, styles and tags from your ClassicPress site… Read More

This post is clearly not our normal fare – it’s not about WordPress or ClassicPress, or Mac computers. We’ve written this in order to help out fellow users of PLDT Home Fib… Read More

Detecting whether your PHP code is running on https or http is useful in a number of situations, particularly if you’re building a URL to set a form action or something similar, but it… Read More

In our previous article published late last year, “ClassicPress Beta is now available – should we adopt it?“, we took a look at the new WordPress fork called ClassicPress… Read More

The ClassicPress fork of WordPress, inspired initially by the forced introduction of Gutenberg in WordPress 5.0, is progressing positively, and today the first Beta was released, superceding… Read More

If you keep your ear to the ground as far as the WordPress content management system is concerned, or even if you don’t, you may have heard that a new content editor called Gutenberg w… Read More

Do you have an amazing website, add content frequently but are receiving little to no traffic? Or does the following sound familiar? You have spent weeks working on a professional website de… Read More

Following the death of my old MacBook which ran Yosemite and ran GIMP without any problems, I had to purchase a new MacBook, and this one came with the High Sierra version of MacOS installed… Read More

As a WordPress developer I run a webserver on my main development system (a MacBook) so that I can develop and test in a private environment before deploying sites to live domains. I’v… Read More

A very simple post, with a very simple solution to a very simple problem. Sometimes you will need to swap two variables around, perhaps if you have a form that asks the user to enter minimum… Read More

I just completely lost the contents of a text widget, and it was WordPress’s fault. I had a normal, old-style text widget, containing a set of links, and within each link was a FontAwe… Read More

Not strictly WordPress-related, this is nonetheless an issue that faces many web developers: how to access your client’s hosting when the client needs you to have a static IP address b… Read More

Some of you may have noticed that after you upgrade to WordPress 4.7.4, when you edit a post using the visual editor tab and add an internal link (a link to another page or post on your site… Read More

Here’s a very short, quick post, detailing a Firefox scripting frustration that I discovered today. Let’s say you have a JavaScript function that calculates a value. The value re… Read More

A very brief post: if you’re implementing a project using WordPress with WooCommerce and a Point Of Sale (POS) plugin, or are simply interested in this particular type of WooCommerce p… Read More

Web pages these days are so full of advertisements, trackers, counters, hidden pixels, it’s a wonder they load at all. And who knows what information you’re revealing about your… Read More

There are times that users encounter issues when watching videos. Common issues include videos that can’t be played on mobile devices, users only see a black box where the video is pla… Read More

Whatever You Do, Create Useful Content There is a balance to SEO optimization. SEO shouldn’t be the main focus of your undertaking. The main focus is to sell your product, not stuff so… Read More

The piece of text I’ve used as this article’s title should be familiar to all WordPress users. Can’t place it? The image above should give you a clue… it’s on… Read More

This is a brief lesson in diagnostics that some may find helpful. The Scenario I develop websites on a Mac running MAMP. On my Mac I have an installation of InfiniteWP that connects to each… Read More

For the last three years I’ve been happily seeing folders at the top of all file lists in my Mac’s Finder windows, thanks to a wonderful little free utility called XtraFinder. Th… Read More

It’s been quite a long time in the making but the new ZigPress website is finally live. We hope you like it. Our goals in this redesign were easy navigation and a simple smart look, wi… Read More

The latest version of WordPress, 4.4 (“Clifford”), has rolled out a feature whereby it adds ‘srcset’ attributes to all image tags in order that browsers can decide wh… Read More

For the last three years (ever since I switched from PC to Mac in fact) I’ve used Evernote as my personal notes repository, using mainly the Mac application and Android app, and occasi… Read More

Here’s a quick tip for those developing a WooCommerce-based website, particularly if it’s your first time. Sometimes, after installing WooCommerce into your WordPress installatio… Read More

WordPress is one of the most popular pieces of free software on the planet, and with good reason – it makes it very easy to get a basic website or blog up and running. But the fun does… Read More

Before reading further, you should read my earlier post, Your WordPress site comments are giving information to hackers, since this post provides a neater solution to the problem described i… Read More

Something I recently discovered: if you run a WordPress site and make a comment on a post yourself while logged in, information relating to your username is added to the HTML that makes up t… Read More

In a few days Google will change the way it decides what will be shown in the results when people search for something using a smartphone. That simple sentence doesn’t sound earth-shat… Read More

I work from many locations – my living room in Malta, the office in Malta where I consult for a tech startup, my place in Gozo, my family home in France, various locations in the UK, a… Read More

This isn’t a WordPress related post, or even a Mac or web development post – but it’s something I’ve been wrestling with for hours and hopefully by the magic of Googl… Read More

Want to know one of the worst things about administering a WordPress-based website? The media library. Specifically: allocating enough hosting space, backing it up, restoring it, and moving… Read More

What with all my consultancy and research work, it’s not often that I get to announce a new product or service from ZigPress… but here we are – a new web application that… Read More

No matter what I’m doing, whatever site I’m building or managing, on whatever server, it’s always automated emailing that has given me the most hassle over the years. Here… Read More

If you’re a blogger, particularly one who uses WordPress, you may well have received an email, or a contact form submission, with content very much like this: You have been chosen by W… Read More

Over the last few months I have been receiving increasing numbers of emails which go along the lines of: Two years ago I made a comment on your article (TITLE HERE), which linked to my websi… Read More