How to redirect index.php for SEO

If your homepage is being treated by Google as two separate pages – e.g. site.com/ and site.com/index.php – you may be experiencing search engine indexing issues too. Unless the index file is redirected to the root, your homepage may be being treated as two different pages but with duplicate content which can cause a whole … Continue Reading

Why move to Microsoft Exchange?

It’s the year 2000. We’re at work. We sit in front of our computer, reading and replying to our emails. At the end of the day we turn the computer off. Everything is done… except it’s not! We’re driving home and remember that really important email we forgot to reply to. Did we press send … Continue Reading

Images upload fine but don’t display in the WordPress media manager – how to fix

This is a simple guide to fixing the problem where your images appear to upload to your WordPress site but don’t display properly in the media manager Ever experienced that problem where you upload an image through the WordPress media-manager, but they don’t appear properly? It appears like it has uploaded but there is just … Continue Reading

How to increase WordPress maximum upload size

As default, many WorePress installations have a limit of 32MB maximum file upload limit for uploading via the media manager. To see what your maximum upload file size is, log into your WordPress site, go to your media library, and click ‘add new’. Often you’ll see ‘Maximum upload file size: 32 MB’ or similar depending … Continue Reading

Upgrade Contact Form 7 to reCAPTCHA V3

The vast majority of unwanted website contact form messages (spam) are created by ‘bots’ – software that finds contact forms and sends messages through them. Google’s reCAPTCHA is a way of protecting you against this spam and other types of automated abuse as it attempts to verify that the form is being filled in by … Continue Reading

Setting your WordPress site language to English (UK)

On occasion I’ve come across WordPress installations that don’t have English (UK) as an available language and it turns out it’s not such a straight-forward problem to fix. The default WordPress installation comes with all manner of languages including Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian, and Korean, however, English (UK) isn’t always there. I suppose the reasoning behind … Continue Reading

10 signs there might be a problem with your website

You’ve got a successful business, you’ve got a website, but is your site bringing in as much business as it could? Here are 10 signs to look out for that mean there may be a problem! Please note; I’m using Google here when referring to a search engine as it’s the largest and therefore the one we generally focus on … Continue Reading