What a year 2015 has been. The second year of We are AG has gone by in a flash, and now that it’s coming to an end and we’re getting ready for hopefully an equally as exciting 2016, I thought it was a good time to reflect on what 2015 brought. We got a new look! […]
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You would be easily forgiven, what with the endless barrage of “How I make $850 a day online!!” pop-ups, that anyone and everyone can, and is, making their fortune online, with little more than a few hours a day and a few clicks of a button, leaving them free to enjoy their endless cash and […]
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Burnout refers to a state of extreme emotional, physical and mental exhaustion, most commonly caused by intense work-related stress. Particularly common amongst creative types, burnout can be a huge drain on productivity, health and happiness. In the modern era, we are all pursuing that ever elusive ‘work life balance’ – no one has quite found […]
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The key to a successful freelance career is happy customers. Happy customers will return over and over again. You’re great at what you do, that’s why you’re doing it, so this shouldn’t be a problem, right? Sadly, it’s not as simple as it should be. You can be the best WordPress developer in the game, […]
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I am sat at Gibraltar airport waiting for my flight back home to the UK; it’s been six weeks since I left. After getting fed up with the poor weather and feeling like it was time for a change, seeing as I can work anywhere from my laptop, I decided it was time to scratch […]
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For a recent client project I was tasked with adding a ‘profile picture upload’ function to the WooCommerce Product Vendors plugin. A simple task. The first thing I thought of was just to add an image upload the user profile page in the WordPress dashboard, which would provide the base for the rest of the […]
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With the ever growing plethora of accessible and user-friendly tools and products, creating websites with WordPress can be a relatively simple process. This is great, as it means most people with access to a computer and the internet can build themselves a website of reasonable quality. However, it does have some important implications for ‘legitimate’ […]
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So you’re in the development game, but are you at the top of your game? It might take a bit of hard work (as anything worth having does), but being among the best of the best is well within your grasp. Now, obviously ‘leading’ isn’t a claim to being the number one WooCommerce developer in […]
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Working in web development, sat in front of a computer screen all day, it’s easy to feel a bit fed-up and isolated from time to time. For most of us, the decision to go freelance is grounded in the pursuit of greater happiness, yet all too often the pressure of running a business can have […]
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The life of a freelancer, contrary to popular belief, can be an extremely stressful one. Despite our best efforts to pursue that mythical ‘healthy work life balance’, long and unsociable working hours are not uncommon. Add to that the occasionally crushing weight of total responsibility for your own productivity, lack of financial security, the stress […]
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