WordPress 5.0 finally saw daylight yesterday, which means the new content editing experience in WordPress is now live. Update: I just discovered that Morten Rand-Hendriksen has released a new LinkedIn Learning course on using the new editor. For the next three weeks it’s available to view for free here. Section 2 and onwards will be useful if you’re new to using Gutenberg. I’ve gone ahead and updated this site – so…
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WordPress 4.9.8 is scheduled to be released tomorrow, and it contains a prompt to ‘Try Gutenberg’. The aim is to get as many people to test Gutenberg – the new content editing experience for WordPress – and provide their feedback, before it becomes part of the core WordPress system. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a video explaining a bit more about Gutenberg. Should I try…
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WordPress 4.9.6 was released last Thursday (17th May). It’s a bit different from a standard minor release, as it contains new features – primarily to address some of the requirements of the GDPR. Here are the key points: Privacy Policy Page There’s a tool that allows you to designate a privacy policy page (see Settings -> Privacy). This page is then shown on your login & registration pages (really relevant…
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There are a few things which have cropped up in various places since I wrote my article on GDPR, so thought a blog post was due… Google Analytics If you have a Google Analytics account, you may well have received a couple of emails recently relating to GDPR. Some of you have asked me what action you need to take. Here’s a summary: Email 1: “Important updates on Google Analytics…
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Big changes are afoot! For those of you who haven’t already heard – a new WordPress content editor and publishing experience is being built, due for initial release in WordPress 5.0 (apparently anytime from April onwards). The project has been named Gutenberg, after the man who introduced the printing press way back in the 1400’s. Why? The current WordPress content editor is a big blank box. It’s lovely for writing a…
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As promised, I have just published a guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), specifically as it relates to WordPress websites. This is definitely not an exhaustive guide, and is based very much around the kind of websites that I build for my clients. It should however be a good starting point for anyone who is trying to ensure they are compliant with GDPR come next May. Read GDPR…
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You will likely already have heard about the new privacy regulations coming into force next May. The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will be in force from 25th May 2018, and has huge implications for businesses small and large. I am in the process of pulling together some guidelines for clients as to how this impacts business websites. At a very broad level, the key questions that we need to…
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About time too… finally I’ve had the time over the last few weeks to re-do Hexagon’s own branding and website. I took the opportunity to use CSS Grids for the first time – this feature landed in the main browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge) this year, so it’s starting to become a viable solution for layouts. It does however mean some fallback CSS is required to ensure a graceful…
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For those that haven’t yet come across it, Gravity Forms is a WordPress plugin that let’s you easily add forms to your website. The form on my contact page is created using Gravity Forms. It’s pretty useful in it’s own right – just as a contact form. But I thought it might be useful to highlight some of the more exciting things that you can do with the help of…
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