Posts By: Liam Jay
Stop WordPress auto updating (because of Gutenberg)
Gutenberg has been generating a lot of noise within the WordPress community, with both positive and negative points, but I’m not here to discuss that as it’s been done before, many, many times over. TL;DR: Gutenberg might break your website, so turn off the WordPress auto-updates feature and test it first. For those who haven’t… Read more »
What is an SSL Certificate? (HTTPS)
What is an SSL Certificate? An SSL Certificate or “SSL” for short, stands for Secure Sockets Layer. In simpler terms, it’s how online business communicate with customers that they can browse, buy products or services, and share information safely online. Without getting overly technical, adding an SSL creates a safe connection for those kinds of… Read more »
Website redesign for Bustle & Sew
A website redesign for a Somerset based, stitching and craft company, Bustle & Sew. Recently, we were approached by Helen and Rosie from Bustle & Sew, a local company not far from Wells, Somerset. Bustle & Sew blog frequently to share tales of life in Somerset, as well as producing a monthly magazine for their subscribers. They… Read more »
Is Instagram any good for business?
I pondered if the title of this post should be “Is Instagram any good for business?” or if it should be called “How Love Creative UK is trying out Instagram”. We are already on the following social networks: • Twitter • Facebook • Behance • Flickr I think it’s fair to say that although we… Read more »
Sublime Text: How to use fuzzy search
Here at Love Creative UK, our text editor of choice for web development is Sublime Text. It has many helpful features to make your coding life easier and today we’re covering “Fuzzy Search”. Using Fuzzy Search in Sublime Text If you’ve never heard of a fuzzy search before, you can think of it is a… Read more »
Help WordPress clients be secure with Strong Passwords
We help our WordPress clients be more secure by ensuring they’re using Strong Passwords. Designing and building great WordPress websites for our clients is what we specalise in, but that isn’t where we stop. We also offer ongoing support and maintance. One issue we’ve encountered more often than we’d like is where a user has… Read more »
A subtle redesign for our site
A quick writeup highlighting some of the website elements we’ve changed during a subtle redesign of our site. We launched the redesign of the Love Creative UK site almost a year ago, and since then we’ve been very happy with it, but there’s always things that can be improved, and by looking at our website… Read more »
New responsive, eCommerce website for the Somerset Cheese Company
A responsive, eCommerce website we designed and built for the Somerset Cheese Company recently went live, and while we’re planning on doing a proper write up and case study for the site, we couldn’t resist letting you guys know about it now. Partly because we genuinely think it’s a kick ass improvement over the old… Read more »
The WordPress plugins we start every new WordPress site with
I was recently asked if there were any WordPress plugins that we always start every new WordPress site with, which made me think, is there a set of plugins that are a must for every WordPress site we build? Before I get into writing up a list of WordPress plugins, I should state that not… Read more »
Why Update WordPress?
The Importance of why you need to update WordPress. WordPress is one of the most popular platforms on the web (it currently powers over 700 million websites). Part of its appeal is that it’s open-source and free! Sadly there are a few disadvantages to this as it means anyone can download a copy of the… Read more »