WordPress 5.0 Beta 1 – Now Available!

This week saw the release of WordPress 5.0 Beta with Gutenberg as standard. And what a week to drop the beta with Red Dead Redemption 2 being released today! All other major games developers have clearly avoided any releases this week due to this massive long-awaited title hitting the shelves. If you haven’t heard of this new game from Rockstar, come out from the rock you’ve been hiding under and check out the hype! It’s slated as being the “game of a generation” and has received top ratings from all of the big games reviewers. I for one am excited to don-poncho and hunker down this weekend with my copy. Read more

What Is the Google “Speed Update”? We like to talk about all the news here at CODE and that includes stuff that’s already happened! There’s so much going on all the time and we want to make sure there’s content available to you on as much of the important stuff as possible.

As you know, we think WordPress is a fantastic CMS. But when it comes to managing page load speeds, there are several factors that can contribute to your site being slow. Read more

How long do you think you have to make an impression on a website visitor? Well, to give you an idea, consider how long you might spend on a website’s home page once you land on it. The average time a visitor spends on a landing page is 10 seconds before they decide to continue or bounce. 10 seconds!

So out of that 10 seconds, you don’t want your website to take up any more time than is necessary. You need your website to load as quickly as possible. Read more

If you’re using WordPress and you haven’t enabled HTTPS yet there’s a few steps you should follow. Google issued a final warning for any websites not using HTTPS by October 2018 stating that it will display a warning for visitors. There’s really no better time to make the switch to HTTPS. Your search rankings will likely be […]

Hang on, web hosting? What’s web hosting got to do with SEO I hear you say?

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WordPress is one of our favourite Content Management Systems (or CMS for short). It’s open source and one of the most widely used CMS platforms around the world. From bloggers to businesses it’s a great choice. But, just how secure is it? Read more

You may have heard your web designer or colleagues discussing responsive website design. But what does it mean? Read more

WordPress is a powerful CMS, or Content Management System, that gives you an intuitive administrative interface from which you can manage the content of your website. Originally developed as blogging software, WordPress has quickly grown to become one of the most popular and widely used CMS around the world for businesses and bloggers alike. Read more