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Overview of Google Analytics privacy settings for GDPR

Data Protection / May 8, 2018

Two simple steps you can take with Google Analytics and WordPress to reduce the data you collect and retain using Google Analytics.

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Web Browser Dev Tools Part 3: The Network tab and testing slow pages

Development / January 2, 2018

In this video I introduce you to the Network tab in dev tools. You can use this to analyse slow-loading pages, locate images that might need to be optimised and more!

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Web Browser Dev Tools Part 2: Inspecting pages

Development / November 12, 2017

Dev Tools lets you view HTML and CSS, inspect its structure and properties, and edit those things to try out changes. This video shows you how.

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Web Browser Dev Tools Part 1: mobile website testing

Development / November 9, 2017

An introduction to developer tools and a demonstration of how you can do mobile (responsive) web testing in Chrome’s developer tools.

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A quick introduction to HTTPS

Hosting, Security / October 14, 2017

This topic came up a few times today, so I quickly recorded an overview. This is a beginner’s guide to HTTPS and SSL certificates.

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Online security: Generating and using passwords with password managers

Security / September 2, 2017

This week there was a big leak of millions of email address – some with passwords. So I’ve made a 7 minute video that’s really worth watching explaining why you should use a password manager to generate and remember passwords, and how doing so is not just more secure but is actually more convenient as

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User Management

Settings and Configuration / August 21, 2017

This video explains why you would use multiple user accounts in WordPress and talks you through adding, editing and deleting users.

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What’s new in WordPress 4.8

What's New / August 2, 2017

WordPress 4.8 contains lots of “behind the scenes” stuff that you probably won’t notice. This what’s new video show you the two features that you might see.

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What’s new in WordPress 4.7

What's New / July 28, 2017

A long-overdue overview of what’s new in WordPress version 4.7 (there’s a lot of good stuff!)

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Keeping WordPress post types code clean with simple classes

Development, Posts / December 19, 2016

This video explains how I use some simple object oriented classes to make my code for querying post types cleaner, simpler, more re-usable, and easier to understand and maintain.

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