WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems with many businesses, both large and small, relying on it for managing their day to day website updates and online content.
Daniel and Ciaran take a fresh look at WordPress, warts and all. We discuss keeping WordPress updated, WordPress security, Cheap shared WordPress hosting, plugin bloat, documenting customisations. We also look at WordPress.com premium hosting. We also discuss WordPress themes, both free and paid, as well as custom built themes. If you are just starting out, each of these theme approaches has its advantages and are worth understanding.
Daniel talks about Shopify and its brilliant off the shelf features which are a great place to start your e-commerce journey but which are separate from WordPress. Ciaran bigs up WooCommerce, a WordPress e-commerce plugin solution by the makers of WordPress that powers a WordPress based e-commerce environment for your website. We also discuss WordPress pages and posts
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WordPress.org.
WordPress.com
Theme Forrest
Array Themes
Upwork.com
Shopify
WooCommerce
Automattic- The makers of WordPress
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