Overview of Google Analytics privacy settings for GDPR
Two simple steps you can take with Google Analytics and WordPress to reduce the data you collect and retain using Google Analytics.
Web Browser Dev Tools Part 3: The Network tab and testing slow pages
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!
Web Browser Dev Tools Part 2: Inspecting pages
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.
Web Browser Dev Tools Part 1: mobile website testing
An introduction to developer tools and a demonstration of how you can do mobile (responsive) web testing in Chrome’s developer tools.
A quick introduction to HTTPS
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.
Online security: Generating and using passwords with password managers
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
This video explains why you would use multiple user accounts in WordPress and talks you through adding, editing and deleting users.
What’s new in WordPress 4.8
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.
What’s new in WordPress 4.7
A long-overdue overview of what’s new in WordPress version 4.7 (there’s a lot of good stuff!)
Keeping WordPress post types code clean with simple classes
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.