Memberships are an increasingly popular online business model. This is largely down to the attractiveness of recurring revenue coming in month after month. You only need to make the sale once to get multiple purchases. Of course, you need to…

If you’re setting up to sell through WordPress, there’s really just one option. WooCommerce is a free plugin that’s owned by Automattic, the company behind WordPress. At the time of writing there are more than five million active installs. Once…

Google offers a variety of free services that most site owners should consider integrating with their sites and with the Site Kit plugin, getting started couldn’t be easier. Google Search Console Google Search Console () is free and should be an…

There are various reasons you may need to add 3rd party scripts and snippets of code to your site. For example to include code that will let Google Analytics track user behavior or just to confirm you’re the genuine owner…

A theme is like the clothes for your WordPress site. The theme that you choose will affect the way that your site looks. The WordPress repository contains a large selection of free themes at  Additionally, there are many premium paid…

Modern versions of WordPress should prevent you activating a plugin that is going to completely break your site, but there may still be other situations that cause a problem. For example, if you enable 2FA in Wordfence and then lose…

These are some suggestions for a variety of plugins that you may find useful. How relevant these are will depend on what you’re using your site for, so don’t install any of these unless they really make sense for your…