Insights & Resources Archive

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.

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.

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’.

Kimb joined Ben Kinnaird to discuss how our agency embraced the WordPress Gutenberg editor.

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!

Here’s our favourite 5 websites for sourcing stunning (and, most importantly, free) imagery. Go ahead and give your WordPress a facelift today!

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.

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.

We think that using WordPress helps designers to create more memorable, eye-catching and effective websites, systems and applications.

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.

Having an ongoing WordPress support contract, such as Make Do’s maintenance services, retainers and SLAs lets your business be a little more agile.

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?

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!

What does focusing on a specific kind of platform like WordPress deliver for our agency clients?

Your business website has a lot of work to do. It needs to inform your readers, rank on Google and drive enquiries.

Lottery Funding will be used to help support people across the UK to create cultural events & activities in their local communities.

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.

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.

During recent updates to our Theme boilerplate we began work behind the scenes reimagining our internal dev workflow to use Webpack instead of Grunt.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.