A simple WooCommerce setup for selling digital downloads

A simple WooCommerce setup for selling digital downloads

WooCommerce has a reputation for being complicated. Some of that reputation is earned, but mostly it applies to the parts of WooCommerce you do not need if you are selling digital products. A shop selling physical goods across multiple warehouses with variable...
How WordPress works: a beginner’s guide

How WordPress works: a beginner’s guide

If you have been thinking about building a website and done any research at all, you will have encountered WordPress. It runs somewhere between 40 and 45 per cent of all websites on the internet, which makes it by some distance the most widely used platform of its...
Five WordPress plugins every freelance designer should consider

Five WordPress plugins every freelance designer should consider

There are thousands of WordPress plugins. Most of them are not worth your time, and a significant number will slow your site down, conflict with each other, or stop being maintained at some point and become a security liability. This is not a list of every plugin a...
Why we’ll never run an introductory pricing offer

Why we’ll never run an introductory pricing offer

This one needs a bit of explaining, because on the surface it sounds like a strange thing to be proud of. Most businesses run promotions. Discounts bring in new customers, and new customers are good. So why would a hosting company make a point of never offering them?...
UK hosting vs US hosting: does it actually matter for SEO?

UK hosting vs US hosting: does it actually matter for SEO?

The short answer is: it depends on who your audience is, and less than it used to. The longer answer is worth understanding properly, because there is a fair amount of outdated advice circulating on this topic and a few things that genuinely do matter. This post...
Image optimisation for photographers using WordPress

Image optimisation for photographers using WordPress

If your WordPress site is slow, images are almost certainly why. This is not a criticism. Photography sites are image-heavy by nature, and WordPress does not do much to help you out of the box. The default behaviour is to take whatever file you upload and serve it...
How to migrate WordPress to a new host without downtime

How to migrate WordPress to a new host without downtime

Moving a WordPress site to a new host is one of those tasks that sounds more complicated than it actually is, once you understand the sequence. Most people put it off because they are worried about breaking something or taking their site offline for hours. Done...
The best UK web hosting for freelancers in 2026

The best UK web hosting for freelancers in 2026

Most “best hosting” guides you’ll find online have a problem, and it’s worth naming it upfront: they’re paid placements. The host at the top of the list has paid to be there, either directly through an advertising arrangement or...