Author: Kayleigh Thorpe

Kayleigh is a member of our Customer Experience team here at 34SP.com. You’ll often find Kayleigh socialising at tech meetups throughout the UK. When she’s not learning about WordPress, Kayleigh loves to travel and is passionate about the WordPress community

Hacked website aftercare

Logging on to find out your website has been hacked can be a distressing time, to say the least. As part of the service on our WordPress Hosting package, we at 34SP.com offer a hacked site cleaning service to help you to get back on your feet. The process is outlined here. Our hack cleanup process usually results in the...

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Plugins we love – Order Export & Order Import for WooCommerce

Sometimes, usually during a migration, you might find WooCommerce orders are placed on the old site location during propagation, and as a result will not exist on the migrated site. WebToffee offer a really useful and easy to use plugin that you can use to sync them across. Step 1. Access the old website Depending on how you have migrated...

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Exciting new features in WordPress 5.5

WordPress 5.5 was released recently with a wide range of new and exciting features. There is a little more packed into this release than usual, so we wanted to take the opportunity to let our WordPress customers and readers know exactly what they’re getting, and why it’s an important update to make sure you run on your site. Block patterns...

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Using WordPress contact forms responsibly

Contact form plugins are amongst the most downloaded kind of plugins for WordPress, and quite rightly so! Everyone wants to be easy to reach when creating a new website, especially if you’re trying to sell a service or create a community. Because contact form plugins are so popular, we naturally spend a good amount of time on the support team...

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Highlights from 34SP.com’s first WordPress Q and A Twitter session

On Wednesday we held our first session of questions and answers over on Twitter, allowing our followers and clients to ask any questions they might have to two of our WordPress specialists. We invited people to submit their questions from 1pm onwards for live feedback, but we also asked earlier over Facebook and Twitter so some of you could get...

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Five plugins which help me quickly deploy a new WordPress website

Whenever I start a new project in WordPress I seem to fall into the same setup pattern before adding any content. This is because I believe I have found a small handful of plugins which take minutes to setup, provide most of the useful tools I will need on my site, as well as leaving me in a place where...

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WordPress plugins we love – Internal Link Juicer

Internal Link Juicer is a fairly hidden plugin with just over 1000 active users. I discovered the plugin when looking for a replacement for another, now unsupported plugin. Building internal links on my WordPress websites is usually a case of making my content, then reading back through it and finding where to link to relevant articles. Internal Link Juicer automates...

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Introducing Wapuu Dashboard Pet

As part of our training at 34SP.com, support members with a specialist subject are encouraged to take a couple of hours a week for additional, focused learning related to their specialism. This allows us to gain extra knowledge and work on projects which better our understanding of our roles here. As part of my training as a WordPress Specialist, I...

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34SP.com staff present their 2018 annual Gameathon

The 34SP.com staff are hosting a charity gameathon event this Friday. The team have been raising money for a few years now; this will be our fourth annual gameathon. In the past we have raised money for various charities, and this year will be no different. We have selected the Mustard Tree property and homelessness charity to be our charity...

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