Darren PinderAt Vatu Ltd, we have 3 main goals: Create high-quality websites Give great customer service to our clients Create a happy, safe,...
Owner of Vatu Ltd and Raccoon Events. Organiser at WordCamp London. Into space, code, and running.
Vatu’s new Email Policy
At Vatu Ltd, we have 3 main goals: Create high-quality websites Give great customer service to our clients Create a happy, safe, and fulfilling work environment for our staff Today we’re launching a 3 month trial which aims to improve goals 2 and 3, and it simply involves not checking our email. To be more specific, it involves [...]
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5 security tips for running a WordPress site
We love WordPress. There are so many reasons to use it, whether you’re an individual blogger or a large company looking for a stable content publishing platform. From it’s excellent editing capabilities, to the extensive library of over 37,000 free plugins in the WordPress directory (plus countless more hosted elsewhere), the many themes [...]
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Simple way to get a single post’s taxonomy
So you've got a custom taxonomy, and you want to return the taxonomy's name(s) ("terms") on a single post template on the front-end.
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Updating multiple WooCommerce variant product shipping classes at once with SQL
I came across a problem recently whereby I needed to update a few thousand WooCommerce product variations’ shipping classes. To explain, this store had hundreds of products, each with at least a dozen variations. These variations were typically split into 2 types, we’ll call them Type A and Type B. Type A variations were [...]
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That stock photo you stole five years ago is about to come back to haunt you
We’ve all been there. You might be writing a blog post, or a report for your website, or writing up a new page of copy, and suddenly you realise… I need an image to go with this text. It’s at this point many people make a crucial mistake. For most, the solution is to open Google, search for an image they like, then copy and paste that [...]
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