If the ‘theme edit’ option has disappeared from your WordPress dashboard and you’re unable to edit themes from the website back-end, try the following tutorial as it’s a common problem with (what is usually) a simple, quick fix. Being able to edit your site themes is useful, however, it can be a big security vulnerability … Continue Reading
Windows 7 support ends soon – what now?
If you’re one of the many businesses who are still using Windows 7, you’re probably wondering what to do now support for Windows 7 is ending. What are the risks? Should you upgrade? What are your other options? However, it’s often just not that simple. This article discusses the main options you have Upgrade to … Continue Reading
Improve Your Website’s Search Engine Rankings with These 5 SEO Tips
As a business owner, you’re no doubt bombarded by spammy emails offering you SEO services from companies that promise they can get your website on the first page of Google. As a reputable Sheffield SEO company we know that no-one can really guarantee these results with 100% certainty. But there are certain things that you … Continue Reading
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
WordPress Tutorial – Contact Form 7 with CAPTCHA and Message Log
How to install Contact Form 7 with a CAPTCHA in WordPress Contact Form 7 is a great choice when it comes to including a contact form in your WordPress website, however, it can be a bit fiddly when extending the functionality to include a CAPTCHA. Here is a simple guide to installing Contact Form & … 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