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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You’ve decided to take the plunge and become a full time freelancer. You’re loving it; it’s everything you wanted it to be – but how can you make sure you keep things ticking over once the initial determination and energetic enthusiasm lessens, as it mostly likely will once the novelty of 10am starts wears off […]
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So, you’re thinking about going freelance. Good for you! Freelancing is great, but it’s not all lie-ins, garden offices and extended lunch ‘meetings’. Before you take the plunge and hand in your notice, what do you need to think about? Whilst freelancing may look like sunshine and rainbows from the outside, it isn’t for everyone. […]
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This snippet will help you strip down the price markup from WooCommerce. On a recent project I used this to add <sup></sup> to the last two decimals for the shopping basket in the header. However you could use this for a number of things. // Get the total of the cart $total = $woocommerce->cart->get_cart_total(); // […]
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I thought I’d write a little blog post to explain a bit about my workflow and some of the tools I use to build websites. Brackets Brackets, offered by Adobe, is my code editor of choice. It’s a fantastic, lightweight open source code editor that understands and facilitates modern web design, with helpful visual tools […]
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