Heading deeper into 2021, WordPress remains a major player in eCommerce. In fact, over 28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce, the WordPress eCommerce solution, followed by Squarespace and Shopify respectively. This comes as no surprise! As a versatile, simple to use, fully customisable and open-source solution, many continue to turn to WooCommerce […]
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Comparative Guide to Understanding Squarespace vs. WordPress
When looking to build a website, users often find themselves choosing between the top two contenders: WordPress and Squarespace. Thanks to effective advertising efforts in recent years, Squarespace is top-of-mind for many when weighing it against other options. You may be surprised to hear that the term ‘Squarespace Agency’ is pretty commonly used now, but […]

Gutenberg vs. Page Builders: 5 Things You Should Know
When it comes to getting up and running with a WordPress website, page builders often come to mind as a quick, do-it-yourself approach. With the release of WordPress 5.0 in December 2018 however, the WordPress landscape was shaken up by the debut of Gutenberg. More than just a new editor, Gutenberg laid the foundation for […]

Make Do Blog Rewind…
You may have not noticed (we didn’t) but the last post on our Blog was number 100! So to celebrate this very small achievement we’ve dug out some of our favorite posts from the past 100 and will be re-sharing these over social media in the coming weeks!

Expert Tools for Digital Agency Remote Working And Working From Home
For some companies though these difficult times have brought on new challenges for the way their teams work and communicate. Here are some of our top tips for remote work/working from home.

Inheriting WordPress Projects and turning them into long-term Client Relationships
Often our agency is asked to step in and take over a WordPress project that was built by another team. This has become so common that we have a tried-and-tested system to dealing with this request.

Remote Working and Working From Home: Team Tooling
With the COVID-19 lockdown pandemic still forcing people to work from home I wanted to follow-on from my previous post and share some of the tools that we use as a remote team that you might find useful if you are adapting to a remote working environment.

What’s changed at Make Do since the COVID-19 lockdown?
4 weeks ago the UK was locked down because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. It has been a challenging few weeks for a small agency like ours but we’ve managed to adapt quickly to the change and remain productive in the ‘new normal’.

We’re Hiring & Looking for Reliable WordPress Freelancers
As our agency grows we need new people to join the team in various Engineering roles. Do you have a passion for WordPress? Want to work remotely? Work from home? The Pub? Starbucks? The bus? Sounds good?

Kimb’s “Working with WordPress Gutenberg” Podcast Interview with Something Inventive
Kimb joined Ben Kinnaird to discuss how our agency embraced the WordPress Gutenberg editor.

WordPress SEO: 10 Tips for Getting Your Site Content Better Indexed by Google in 2019
It’s a well known fact that 75% of users don’t make it past Google’s first page, with some reports putting this number even higher!

5 Places to Find Free Stock Photos & Artwork for WordPress.
Here’s our favourite 5 websites for sourcing stunning (and, most importantly, free) imagery. Go ahead and give your WordPress a facelift today!