Insights & Resources Archive
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Insights, words, freebies, whatever you want to call it this is our technical WordPress agency blog.
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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!
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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!
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Talking WordPress Interoperability with Sansoro Health
Moving data around systems should be easy in this day-and-age. But in Healthcare IT systems, and especially in the NHS, it can be a real challenge. Recently I was asked about what I thought about this by the team at Sansoro Health.
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Looking Back at our ‘Clarity’ WordPress Plugin in the Age of Gutenberg
Five Years Ago when our agency was just getting started we worked on a small plugin called ‘Clarity’ that was designed to help WordPress users manage their website content by adding a more ‘visual’ layer to the WordPress experience.
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Confessions of a WordPress Design Company
We think that using WordPress helps designers to create more memorable, eye-catching and effective websites, systems and applications.
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Improving Performance when using the WordPress Classic Editor Plugin
t Make Do we understand that performance matters; our team of WordPress Engineers is committed to putting in the necessary time and effort required to make sure that performance is paramount across all our projects.
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Keeping it Running – Why WordPress Support is Vital
Having an ongoing WordPress support contract, such as Make Do’s maintenance services, retainers and SLAs lets your business be a little more agile.
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WooCommerce OR Shopify and Why We’re a WooCommerce Agency
Businesses are often faced with a choice straight from the off. WooCommerce vs Shopify. At Make Do, we’re proud to be a WooCommerce agency. But why?
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WordPress 5.2 Introduces a ‘Site Health Check’ Feature
WordPress 5.2 is now officially out and if you’re reading this you should have this version updated and installed onto your live sites soon!
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Where’s the Value in a WordPress Agency?
What does focusing on a specific kind of platform like WordPress deliver for our agency clients?
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How Does WordPress Development Deliver More Effective Websites?
Your business website has a lot of work to do. It needs to inform your readers, rank on Google and drive enquiries.
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Make Do Client ‘Fun Palaces’ Awarded £1.5m in Lottery Funding
Lottery Funding will be used to help support people across the UK to create cultural events & activities in their local communities.
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Developing with WordPress & Gutenberg: Part 2 – Using Your Block
Gutenberg is the codename for the new WordPress editor that was released in WordPress 5.0 back in December 2018. This is the second in our two-part series that will help you get started with the new ‘Block’ based editor when developing custom technical WordPress projects.
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Developing with WordPress & Gutenberg: Part 1 – Getting Started
Gutenberg is the codename for the new WordPress editor that was released in WordPress 5.0 back in December 2018. In this post we’ll look at how you can begin to harness the power of the new editor to power-up your technical WordPress Development projects.
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Using Webpack with WordPress for Future-Proof Theme Development
During recent updates to our Theme boilerplate we began work behind the scenes reimagining our internal dev workflow to use Webpack instead of Grunt.
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How Flexible Packages Transformed our WordPress Agency
When working with other agencies, SMEs or B2B on WordPress Technical Projects and Support our Flexible Packages often work best. This is an overview of that service and how it came to be a major part of our agency service offering.
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WordPress Technical Agency Guide to Building a Plugin
At Make Do we have been lucky enough to work with several WordPress VIP agencies, and have built plugins that work in their development environments.
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Theme Translation Guide for WordPress MultiLingual Projects
Make Do have been lucky enough to work with several international organisations over the years. This means that we have a lot of experience in making a WordPress website that works in multiple languages.
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Get Your WordPress Website Gutenberg Ready
In this post our WordPress Engineer Charlie describes WordPress development best practice on how you can quickly get your older WordPress websites ready for Gutenberg.
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How We Deploy and Compile WordPress Agency Projects
At Make Do we needed a tool that would let us build our project assets dynamically on the server (Sass, JS, etc) and continuously deploy to our production and staging environments without any headaches for our engineers.
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Our Gutenberg ‘Block Starter Kit’ is now available
We’ve been working with the new WordPress editor ‘Gutenberg’ for a while now and one of the key components to this has been the creation of a ‘boilerplate’ or ‘starter kit’ that helps our team to quickly create new WordPress Blocks.
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The Future of Make Do’s FrontEndNorth Conference
One year ago the Make Do team hosted the FrontEndNorth conference at the City Hall in Sheffield and welcomed over 200 people from all over the world into our hands to view sessions from experts in our industry talk about everything front-end!
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How the WordPress 5.0 Release Schedule Happened
WordPress 5.0 and the new block-based Gutenberg editor is finally being released today! (…that’s the 6th of December 2018). But how did we get here? How did we get to the release of this all-new revolutionary change to WordPress? Let’s take a quick look.
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Creating a Task Driven Public Sector Website
Reasons for a customer visiting a website could be endless, however one thing remains common regardless of the customer need, which is that all customers will visit a website to perform a task!
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