Name: Fisher INC
Address: Doncaster, South Yorkshire, GB
Telephone: +441302568020
Price range: ££

<p>So you&#8217;re wanting to add <strong>Schema</strong><strong> Markup</strong> to your website.</p>
<p>Many people might be asking what is Schema Markup?</p>
<blockquote><p><em><b>Schema markup</b> is code (semantic vocabulary) that you put on your website to help the search engines return more informative results for users. If you&#8217;ve ever used rich snippets, you&#8217;ll understand exactly what <b>schema markup</b> is all about. Here&#8217;s an example of a local business that has <b>markup</b> on its event schedule page.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>But we don&#8217;t want any Schema we want the <a href="http://schema.org/Review" rel="nofollow"><strong>review</strong> schema</a> as our testimonial slider will have reviews regarding a product or service so integrating schema markup would be very beneficial to us.</p>
<p>So how do we go about adding schema markup to our existing testimonials slider?, Well we could Modify modify the plug-in and add the schema markup that way but that would mean you wouldn&#8217;t be able to update the plugin as your alterations would be removed and not doing updates could cause problems.</p>
<p>We could use a <a href="https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/schema/" rel="nofollow">schema WordPress plug-in</a> that adds schema markup to our website, but it doesn&#8217;t always cover reviews, this might be in the works for the developer, or it could be a paid extension that he might bring out.</p>
<p>Or we can make our own testimonial slider plugin&#8230;but to save time, I have already developed a simple testimonial slider plugin which you can use that has schema markup already implemented.</p>
<p>The plugin also has a built-in post type called <strong>testimonials</strong> where you can add all your testimonials and it will show on your site through the use of a shortcode on any page you wish.</p>
<p>If you just want the plugin you can get it <a href="https://fisherinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jf-slider.zip">here</a>, or if you want to implement it yourself then follow the steps below.</p>
<p>The slider takes advantage of <a href="http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/" rel="nofollow">slick slider JS library</a>, Which is an incredibly useful and responsive slider, you will need to download the files to your computer to get started.</p>
<h4>Step 1: Enqueue Styles &amp; Scripts</h4>
<pre class="theme:neon lang:php decode:true">function testimonialSlidescripts() { 
	//CDN Update
	wp_enqueue_script( 'testimonial_slick_slider_js', 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/slick-carousel/1.9.0/slick.min.js', array('jquery'), time());	
	wp_enqueue_style( 'testimonial_slider_slick_css', 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/slick-carousel/1.9.0/slick.min.css', array(), time());
	wp_enqueue_style( 'testimonial_slider_slick_theme_css', 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/slick-carousel/1.9.0/slick-theme.min.css', array(), time());
	
	wp_enqueue_script( 'testimonial_slider_config_js', plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'slider-config.js',array('jquery'), time());
	wp_enqueue_style( 'testimonial_slider_slick_custom_css', plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'custom.css', array(), time());
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'testimonialSlidescripts');</pre>
<h4>Step 2: Add the Testimonial Post Type</h4>
<pre class="theme:neon lang:php decode:true">function testimonial_post_type() {
   
   // Labels
	$labels = array(
		'name' =&gt; _x("Testimonials", "post type general name"),
		'singular_name' =&gt; _x("Testimonial", "post type singular name"),
		'menu_name' =&gt; 'Testimonials',
		'add_new' =&gt; _x("Add New", "testimonial item"),
		'add_new_item' =&gt; __("Add New Testimonial"),
		'edit_item' =&gt; __("Edit Testimonial"),
		'new_item' =&gt; __("New Testimonial"),
		'view_item' =&gt; __("View Testimonial"),
		'search_items' =&gt; __("Search Testimonials"),
		'not_found' =&gt;  __("No Testimonials Found"),
		'not_found_in_trash' =&gt; __("No Testimonials Found in Trash"),
		'parent_item_colon' =&gt; ''
	);
	
	// Register post type
	register_post_type('testimonial' , array(
		'labels' =&gt; $labels,
		'public' =&gt; true,
		'has_archive' =&gt; false,
		'menu_icon' =&gt; 'dashicons-format-status',
		'rewrite' =&gt; false,
		'supports' =&gt; array('title', 'editor','custom-fields','thumbnail')
	) );
}
add_action( 'init', 'testimonial_post_type', 0 );</pre>
<h4>Step 3: Add the Slider Shortcode</h4>
<pre class="theme:neon lang:php decode:true">	function testimonial_slider_function() {

	$args = array(
	    'post_type'=&gt; 'testimonial',
	    'order'    =&gt; 'rand'
	);     
	$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
	$return = '';
	if($the_query-&gt;have_posts() ) : 
			
			
		$return .='&lt;div class="slider slickslider"&gt;';

			while ( $the_query-&gt;have_posts() ) : $the_query-&gt;the_post();

			$return .='&lt;div class="slick-slide"&gt;';
               $return .=' &lt;!-- START REVIEW SCHEMA /--&gt;';
				$return .='&lt;div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review"&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;!-- COMPANY NAME /--&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;div itemprop="name" style="display: none;"&gt;';
							$return .='&lt;strong&gt; ** COMPANY NAME OR ITEM REVIEW HERE ** &lt;/strong&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;!-- ITEM REVIEWED /--&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;div itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing"&gt;';
						$return .='&lt;span style="display: none;" itemprop="name"&gt; ** COMPANY NAME OR ITEM REVIEW HERE ** &lt;/span&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
					
					$return .='&lt;!-- REVIEW TITLE /--&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;div itemprop="description"&gt;';
						$return .='&lt;h3&gt;'. get_the_title().'&lt;/h3&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
					
					$return .='&lt;!-- REVIEW BODY /--&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;div itemprop="reviewBody"&gt;';
						$return .='&lt;p&gt;'. get_the_content().'&lt;/p&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
					
					$return .='&lt;!-- REVIEW AUTHOR /--&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;div itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"&gt;';
						$return .='&lt;span style="display: none;" itemprop="name"&gt;'. get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'testimonial_author', true).'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
					
					$return .='&lt;!-- REVIEW PUBLISH DATE /--&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;div style="display: none;"&gt;';
						$return .='&lt;meta itemprop="datePublished" content="'. get_the_date( 'Y/m/d' ).'"&gt;Date published: '. get_the_date( 'Y/m/d' );
					$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
					
					$return .='&lt;!-- REVIEW RATING /--&gt;';
					$return .='&lt;div style="display: none;" itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating"&gt;';
						$return .='&lt;meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0"&gt;&lt;span itemprop="ratingValue"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; / &lt;span itemprop="bestRating"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; stars';
					$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
                    $return .='&lt;!-- END REVIEW SCHEMA /--&gt;';
				$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
			$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
	
			endwhile;
			wp_reset_postdata(); 
		$return .='&lt;/div&gt;';
	endif;
	
	return $return;
	 
}
add_shortcode( 'testimonialshortcode', 'testimonial_slider_function' );</pre>
<h4>Step 4: Add slider config js</h4>
<pre class="theme:neon lang:php decode:true">jQuery(function($){
	$(document).ready(function(){
		  $('.slickslider').slick({
				infinite: true,
				speed: 300,
				slidesToShow: 1,
				autoplay: true,
				autoplaySpeed: 7000,
		  });
	});
});</pre>
<h3>Step 5 Add CSS sheet.</h3>
<p>Create a file called<strong> custom.css</strong> in the root of your plugin directory and begin adding your styles, to customise the slider the way you want.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s it activate the plugin and use the shortcode</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true ">[testimonialshortcode]</pre>
<p>anywhere on the site to show the slider.</p>
<p>If you have any problems or questions let me know in the comments and i&#8217;ll be happy to assist.</p>
<p>Please share and like this post 🙂</p>
<p>**21/05/2019 &#8211; Corrected Issue with shortcode as its supposed to be a return value.</p>
<p>**16/03/2020 &#8211; Updated For CDN Support</p>


Schema Markup Testimonial Slider CDN Support

<h2 style="margin: 0;">What is Schema?</h2>
<blockquote><p><em>Schema.org (often called Schema) is a semantic vocabulary of tags (or microdata) that you can add to your HTML to improve the way search engines read and represent your page in SERPs.</em></p>
<h5><a href="https://moz.com/learn/seo/schema-structured-data">MOZ</a></h5>
</blockquote>
<h3 style="margin: 0 0 5px;">🚀 Boost Your <strong>SEO Rankings</strong> With This Simple<strong> Schema Markup Snippet!</strong></h3>
<h3 style="font-size: 20px; margin: 0;">This is a quick snippet that contains all the Local Business Schema information that you will need, including:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Name</li>
<li>Address</li>
<li>Reviews</li>
<li>Contact Info</li>
<li>MapLinks</li>
<li>Price</li>
<li>Opening Times</li>
<li>Social Links</li>
</ul>
<p>Simply add the following snippet to your header.php / or wherever your &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; tags are and please replace the below-filled information (mywebsiteurl, mywebsite etc) with your own!</p>
<pre class="theme:neon width-set:true width:100 width-unit:1 lang:js decode:true ">&lt;!-- LOCAL BUSINESS SCHEMA /--&gt;
&lt;script type="application/ld+json"&gt;
{
	"@context": "http://schema.org",
	"@type": "LocalBusiness",
	"name": "My Business Name",
	"aggregateRating": {
		"@type": "AggregateRating",
		"ratingValue": "5",
		"reviewCount": "1"
	},
	"review": [
	{
      "@type": "Review",
      "author": "REVIEW AUTHOR",
      "datePublished": "01-01-2020",
      "description": "The review contents",
      "reviewRating": {
        "@type": "Rating",
        "bestRating": "5",
        "ratingValue": "5",
        "worstRating": "0"
      	}
    }],
	"url": "http://mywebsiteurl.com/",
	"description": "My Website description",
	"telephone": "01302 000000",
	"email": "info@mywebsite.com",
	"image": "https://mywebsiteurl.co.uk/logo.png",
	"contactPoint" : {
	    "@type" : "ContactPoint",
	    "telephone" : "+441302000000",
	    "contactType" : "customer service"
	},
	"address": {
		"@type": "PostalAddress",
		"addressLocality": "Doncaster",
		"addressRegion": "South Yorkshire",
		"postalCode":"DN5...",
		"streetAddress": "Queens Court, Bentley"
	},
	"priceRange": "££",
	"openingHours": "Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 09:00-17:00",
	"geo": {
	"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
		"latitude": "53.5373874",
		"longitude": "-1.158099"
	}, 
	"hasMap": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/...",			
	"sameAs" : [ 
		"https://www.facebook.com/",
		"https://twitter.com/"]
	},
}
&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<p>Below is an adaptation of the above, a mjority of the fields are pre filled with WordPress infomation such as the title, description, etc and if you have a <strong>testimonial post type or similar</strong> then you will can update <strong>line #15, to reflect your post type</strong>, and it will start pulling in the posts and using them as reviews.</p>
<p>Its only a simple adaptation it can go further if you have the knowledge.</p>
<pre class="theme:neon width-set:true width:100 width-unit:1 lang:js decode:true ">&lt;!-- LOCAL BUSINESS SCHEMA /--&gt;
&lt;script type="application/ld+json"&gt;
{
	"@context": "http://schema.org",
	"@type": "LocalBusiness",
	"name": "&lt;?php echo get_bloginfo( 'name' ); ?&gt;",
	"aggregateRating": {
		"@type": "AggregateRating",
		"ratingValue": "5",
		"reviewCount": "&lt;?php echo $count_posts = wp_count_posts( 'testimonials' )-&gt;publish; ?&gt;"
	},
	"review": [
&lt;?php 				
	$args = array(
		'post_type' =&gt; 'testimonials',
		'posts_per_page'	=&gt; -1,
		'order' =&gt; 'DESC',
		'orederby' =&gt; 'date',
	);
	
	$query = new WP_Query($args);
	if ( $query-&gt;have_posts() ) :
	while ( $query-&gt;have_posts() ) : $query-&gt;the_post();
		echo ' {
	      "@type": "Review",
	      "author": "'.get_the_title().'",
	      "datePublished": "'.get_the_date('d-m-Y', '','', FALSE).'",
	      "description": "'.get_the_content().'",
	      "reviewRating": {
	        "@type": "Rating",
	        "bestRating": "5",
	        "ratingValue": "5",
	        "worstRating": "0"
	      	}
	    }';
	    
	    if (($query-&gt;current_post +1) == ($query-&gt;post_count)) {
		  echo ' ';
		} else {
			echo ',';
		}
	endwhile;
	wp_reset_postdata();
	endif;
?&gt;
	],
	"url": "&lt;?php echo get_bloginfo( 'url' ); ?&gt;",
	"description": "&lt;?php echo get_bloginfo( 'description' ); ?&gt;",
	"telephone": "01302 000000",
	"email": "info@mywebsite.com",
	"image": "https://mywebsiteurl.co.uk/logo.png",
	"contactPoint" : {
	    "@type" : "ContactPoint",
	    "telephone" : "+441302000000",
	    "contactType" : "customer service"
	},
	"address": {
		"@type": "PostalAddress",
		"addressLocality": "Doncaster",
		"addressRegion": "South Yorkshire",
		"postalCode":"DN5...",
		"streetAddress": "Queens Court, Bentley"
	},
	"priceRange": "££",
	"openingHours": "Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr 09:00-17:00",
	"geo": {
	"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
		"latitude": "53.5373874",
		"longitude": "-1.158099"
	}, 
	"hasMap": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/...",			
	"sameAs" : [ 
		"https://www.facebook.com/",
		"https://twitter.com/"]
	},
}
&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<h3>As an added bonus!</h3>
<p>See below snippet for adding Search action to your website, add it to the same places as the above <strong>between your &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; tags.</strong></p>
<pre class="theme:neon width-set:true width:100 width-unit:1 lang:js decode:true ">&lt;!-- LOCAL BUSINESS SCHEMA /--&gt;
&lt;script type="application/ld+json"&gt;
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "WebSite", 
  
  "name" : "&amp;lt?php echo get_bloginfo( 'name' ); ?&gt;",
  "url" : "&amp;lt?php echo get_bloginfo( 'url' ); ?&gt;",
  "potentialAction" : {
    "@type" : "SearchAction",
    "target" : "&amp;lt?php echo get_bloginfo( 'url' ); ?&amp;gt?s={search_term}",
    "query-input" : "required name=search_term"
  }                     
}
&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<h4>If you require any help in implement this then please <a href="https://fisherinc.co.uk/contact/"><strong>contact u</strong>s</a> or call<strong><a href="tel:+441302568020"> 01302 568020</a></strong></h4>


Local Business Schema Markup 2020


<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Well another year has passed and I&#8217;m still here (and not broke), which is amazing to be honest seen as 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs fail in their first year 18 months, so what&#8217;s happened in the past year&#8230;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Well we became a <a href="https://www.doncaster-chamber.co.uk/list/member/fisher-inc-ltd-2224" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Doncaster chamber member (opens in a new tab)">Doncaster chamber member</a> which gave me access to some networking events and services where I was able to meet potential new clients which was a big boost.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">2019 also brought an increase in adhoc jobs from various agencies in and around the UK where they were working with developers from overseas and weren&#8217;t getting entirely what they bargained for (from what I gathered from the clients I spoke to) and having someone local and was able to pop round / meet for coffee if need was a big help to some.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I have gained some permanent work with another company building some bespoke applications tailored to their clients business needs, which has come with its own unique challenges, but in return I&#8217;m learning some incredible things and working with some fantastic people, and building some awesome stuff.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The rest of the year will be focusing on my current clients and working to build a confident relationship with them all so that I have a stable future, and hopefully if all goes well I will be around next year.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bye Bye for now..</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;</p>


2nd Year Achieved

<h2>So your there, your at that point where you&#8217;ve done everything you can do to your site to speed it up, but you&#8217;ve hit a road block.</h2>
<p>You&#8217;ve made sure every image is compressed you&#8217;ve uninstalled or removed plugins you don&#8217;t use, you&#8217;ve installed caching plugins to give your site that extra kick, you&#8217;ve followed Google Page Speed Insights, or GMetrix to the latter but yet your site is still underperforming. What else can you do?</p>
<p>Is it possible to achieve the perfect score?</p>
<p>Well, have you checked to make sure your theme is light and fast?</p>
<p>You may be thinking why would I need to do that I know my theme is light and fast. But is it?</p>
<p>Many people purely buy themes based on the look and feel of the theme and why not that is the whole point of a theme if it looks good whats the problem?</p>
<p>True but do you take a second to think how <strong>large</strong> the theme is? When you see a theme with over 500 different variations and options are you thinking about the speed?</p>
<p>All those extra features can be slowing you down, it&#8217;s not worth it to spend $100 on a theme with loads of options for you to only have a 5-page site at the end of it, especially if you want it to be lightning fast.</p>
<p>A lot of the BIG themes have an area where you can turn off certain features, like extra post types you don&#8217;t need, unused shortcodes, Fonts etc which is incredibly useful if you want to shave that extra millisecond of your load time.</p>
<p>BUT IT&#8217;S STILL NOT FAST ENOUGH!</p>
<h3>So what&#8217;s the Ultimate thing you can do what&#8217;s the best way to get the fastest theme ever?</h3>
<p>Well, your rebuild it.</p>
<p>Yes Rebuild it, buy rebuilding the theme you would only be adding the scripts and styles you need to run the theme efficiently you can combine any features into your theme and strip out everything else that could be causing issues, this has been the case recently. As a lot of clients have been asking for faster websites, and be building website themes from scratch, your getting a stupidly fast theme that only has the essentials to run.</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t you just rebuild what you have?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing stopping you from altering your current theme and stripping out stuff you don&#8217;t want, But do remember that if you want to continue receiving updates from the theme developer then I highly suggest not doing this, or at least if you wanted to duplicate the theme and then start making your amends to it least then you can keep an up to date version.</p>
<h3>So to wrap up,</h3>
<p>The is no real best practise on making your site super fast as the internet is an ever changing thing thats gonna constantly want you to do improvements to your site in the future it will be Google Page Speed insights one year then it&#8217;ll be Google Mobile Usability test another year then it&#8217;ll be something new and interesting the next year its a long uphill battle to constantly make any site super fast.</p>
<p>Good luck to us all.</p>


Rebuilding Your WordPress Site For Speed

<h2><strong>Fisher INC celebrated its 1st Year&#8230; back in March.</strong></h2>
<h3><strong> I know its a bit late to write a post about it but it was overdue.</strong></h3>
<h4><strong>Hello Im Josh the MD of Fisher INC and here is my message about the past year.</strong></h4>
<p>So what happened in the past year? So far&#8230;. nothing. That&#8217;s not a bad thing I&#8217;ve been mainly focusing on making sure we are stable before expanding or branching out so to speak. It&#8217;s mainly involved making sure that the way we handle daily tasks is done efficiently and run without any issues, so that when time does come to expand we can do it with confidence knowing that our core principles and techniques work.</p>
<p>Fisher INC is on Google ,I know you must have seen the new badges in the footer and sidebar but this was far overdue but we finally sorted it, so feel free to leave us a <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fisher+inc+ltd+doncaster&amp;oq=fisher+inc+ltd+doncaster&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.3134j0j1&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#lrd=0x48790dd1aeb71da1:0x82cd64c31ace4b1f,3,,," rel="nofollow">review.</a> we always appreciated any feedback received.</p>
<h4><strong>Issues of 2017?</strong></h4>
<p>It was difficult in the first few months of starting the business as the main priority is getting sales as without sales there is no business, at the start I worked on freelance sites such as <a href="https://www.peopleperhour.com/">PPH</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.freelancer.co.uk/">freelancer</a> to get a running start you can read more <a href="https://fisherinc.co.uk/news/first-3-months-freelance-web-developer/">here</a> from there I met some talented individuals and who are still with me to this day.</p>
<p>But no nothing bad has happened, no problems, yes we have had our fair few difficult clients along the way, with any business there has been teething problems but nothing that can&#8217;t be rectified.</p>
<h4><strong>Future Plans for 2018?</strong></h4>
<p>Never know what the future holds but we aren&#8217;t looking to expand or branch out anytime soon as we are still in the early years and I wouldn&#8217;t want to make a rash decision without thinking about the consequence that could conquer because of it. Im going to be posting a bit more as we don&#8217;t want to become stale and appear silents for our visitors. Hopefully add some new tutorials and tips.</p>
<p>A special thanks to all the clients we work with and hope to continue to work in the future.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>


1st Year Achieved

<h2>A Responsive site is key.</h2>
<p>Having a responsive site is key in 2017, but why should you turn your site into a responsive one? what&#8217;s the benefits to all this?</p>
<h3>Responsive site vs Mobile template</h3>
<p>Having a responsive site is better than using a mobile template, with a mobile template you&#8217;re really running 2 sites a desktop version and a mobile version each come with separate URLs. Mobile template are more difficult to maintain than a responsive site, as you&#8217;re having to do the amends twice once for your desktop and once for the mobile template.</p>
<p>Having a responsive site is better as you make all the amends to one site which works on all devices seamlessly, plus Google loves that you have just one URL that it can crawl and not 2 that are separate and not connected.</p>
<h3>Mobile searches overtakes desktop</h3>
<p>According to google almost <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/mobile-web-browsing-desktop-smartphones-tablets" rel="nofollow">half of all searches</a> were performed on a mobile device which is insane when you look only 3 years ago mobile searches were just over 20% and now is surpassing desktop searches.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s does that mean tho? well, it means more and more people are searching/browsing the web on a phone and not on a desktop. So what does that mean for you?</p>
<p>Having a responsive website is a benefit if you check up on your current site, or a site that you know isn&#8217;t responsive, you may find difficult to use and you&#8217;re having to pinch and zoom to click on buttons/links, why a potential customer is not going to enjoy.</p>
<h3>Customers love a user experience</h3>
<p>If a user stumbles across your website and cannot find what they are looking for then, there’s a 60% chance they will leave and go elsewhere which is what you don&#8217;t want, that if they have a positive experience with your mobile website, a user is more likely to buy a product.</p>
<p>Having an easy to use simple user experience on your site could potentially increase sales and drive more people to your site or store. If people enjoyed the experience they&#8217;ll be back for more soon.</p>
<p>Just remember to make it easy for the customer to find what they need rather that an over-complicated mess that just doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<h3>How can I make my site responsive?</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with WordPress you can make the amends to the style sheet and turn your template into a responsive one, or if you don&#8217;t really know how or have the time to do it then you can try a new theme instead most of the free themes on WordPress are responsive but don&#8217;t expect much from a free theme, it will give you some basic settings but nothing major.</p>
<p>Alternative check you have the most up to date version of your theme, if you have a left it a couple of years some free updates might be available to you that brings a responsive side to the site or even just a setting in the theme options to turn the responsive side on is usually disabled by default.</p>
<p>Paying the extra £30 for a new WordPress theme that&#8217;s responsive and fast is an easier option in some cases, people may disagree and say you can do it yourself for less, you can if you know what you&#8217;re doing. But if you don&#8217;t and have some time to kill and think you can install a configure a new WordPress theme then go for it, just remember to take a backup first.</p>
<h3>Overall</h3>
<p>Why does your new website need to be responsive? because that&#8217;s the future more and more people are shopping on their phones than at an actual computer. Its worth doing if you don&#8217;t have a responsive site.</p>


Why does your new website need to be responsive?

<h2>So you want to start your own WordPress blog or online store?</h2>
<p>You have some ideas that might change the course of time and you want to put them on the big wide web for everyone to see, or you have just created a new product that you wish to sell, but for how much?</p>
<p>Well realistically you&#8217;re looking at around <b>£150</b>, and no, I didn&#8217;t miss a few extra zeros at the end, take away years worth hosting for £10 or less per month.</p>
<h3>Hosting</h3>
<p>You can purchase cheap hosting from <a href="http://godaddy.com">godaddy</a>, <a href="http://bluehost.com">bluehost</a>, <a href="http://1and1.com">1&amp;1</a> etc which will do the job but if you want something with a bit more power then that&#8217;s gonna cost an extra.</p>
<p>Bare in mind that when you&#8217;re on a shared hosting platform with other users your site speed is gonna differ. An example would be when another site on the same server you&#8217;re on starts getting a peak in traffic most resources are gonna be used to keep that site up and running which is good for them but bad for you as your site starts becoming sluggish and refuses to load.</p>
<h3>Domain Name</h3>
<p>A domain name is needed of course how could I forget as you&#8217;ll need a domain name to access your site/store, they start from as little as 99p depending on what suffix you&#8217;re using.</p>
<p>So what money do you have left&#8230;..do you need to spend that money?</p>
<p>WordPress is a free open source content management system and has thousands of free plugins and themes to choose from.</p>
<h3>Themes</h3>
<p>If that money is still burning a whole in your pocket then you can head over to <a href="http://themeforest.net/">Themeforest</a> or a similar website and buy a premium WordPress theme, something&#8217;s <b>responsive, mobile ready, e-commerce ready </b>and of course <b>fast</b>.</p>
<p>Plus most premium / free themes come with a selection of demos that you can import into your WordPress site and then all you have to do really is change the text and a few images and you have yourself a brand new, flashy, fast website.</p>
<h3>E-commerce</h3>
<p>For the e-commerce side of the site if you&#8217;re wanting to go down that route then <a href="https://woocommerce.com/">woo commerce</a> is my answer to you, it is the best e-commerce plugin for WordPress, it has a bunch of features, it&#8217;s easy to use and you can start selling in no time.</p>
<hr />
<p>The real cost here is your <b>time</b>, building a WordPress blog from scratch is a long and difficult task if you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re doing, you can pay professionals to do this for you but again that&#8217;s more money that you wish you had.</p>
<p>Overall from start to finish, it should take you a day* or so to actually get it setup and everything installed then it&#8217;s just a matter of doing some adjustments to make it unique.</p>
<p>Take time with your blog, read up on WordPress watch a few <a href="http://joshfisher.io/wordpress-tutorials">tutorials</a> get to grips with it so you can take full advantage of what&#8217;s available to you.</p>
<hr />
<h6>*May take longer depending on your knowledge of WordPress, I&#8217;m saying a day as realistically you could achieve it if you had all the information you need on what was going up on the site and you didn&#8217;t really care so much about the design.</h6>
<h6>This article is more directed at people that are just starting out on WordPress and don&#8217;t really want to spend a fortune getting the blog together. a small business could also achieve this but if you&#8217;re a massive company and have the extra cash flow to afford a bespoke site then go for it.</h6>


The Real Cost to Setup a WordPress Blog / Store

<h2>Dont click off yet, this is a solution to removing <code>product</code> and <code>product-category</code> from the URL on your products.</h2>
<p>Are you in the situation where you want to remove <code>product</code> and <code>product-category</code> from the URL on your products but you can&#8217;t because its a bad idea, and from doing some research on how to achieve this, a lot of people are saying this &#8220;isn&#8217;t possible&#8221; as this is the way WordPress works and it would require a lot from WordPress.</p>
<p>It is possible hence this post.</p>
<p>Related links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-product-category-from-urk/" rel="nofollow">Topic: remove product-category from url « WordPress.org Forums</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/1178" rel="nofollow">Remove &#8220;product-category&#8221; from urls #1178</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Even the developers of <a href="https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/1178">Woocommerce</a> say this is a bad idea, but many people just want it anyway regardless of the consequences it could bring.</p>
<p>So after days of stressing over how to accomplish this, I&#8217;ve found a plugin from <a href="https://wubpress.com/" rel="nofollow">WubPress</a> called <a href="https://wubpress.com/seo/wub-seo-url/" rel="nofollow">WUB seo urls</a> claiming that they had found a solution. I was skeptical at first with only 1 review claiming it did the job, this didn&#8217;t give me much confidence. I checked out a few videos and thought sod it might as well try it out myself to see if it works or not.</p>
<p>And it works!!  It does exactly what it says, my product urls are now what I wanted them to be.</p>
<p><strong>e.g http://example.com/mycategory/mysubcategory/myproduct/</strong></p>
<p>Which is saving me a hell of a lot of time and <strong>no duplicates</strong>.</p>
<p>The plugin comes with a few tutorials and a getting started guide, but shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult to setup and if you are having issues there  is 24/7 support available that will be able to solve them.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a shoutout or a paid promotion, I&#8217;m just saying thanks to <a href="https://wubpress.com/" rel="nofollow">WUBPress</a> for this awesome plugin, I would highly recommend <a href="https://wubpress.com/seo/wub-seo-url/" rel="nofollow">WUB seo urls</a> for anyone trying to remove <code>product</code> and <code>product-category</code> from the URL.</p>
<p>A big thank you to Richard from <a href="https://wubpress.com/" rel="nofollow">WUB SEO</a> for sending me a coupon code which you guys can use to get 50% off simply use &#8220;joshfisher&#8221;</p>
<p>at the checkout to receive your discount.</p>


Remove product and product-category from the url in WordPress

<h2>Functions&#8230;</h2>
<p>Functions play a big part in how your WordPress theme works as its performs as a plugin would.</p>
<p>You can add code snippets to improve the functionality and features of your site, you can add your own functions, call PHP functions or hook into a WordPress function.</p>
<p>It really is a useful file and here is some of my most used WordPress snippets to help me solve problems I face from time to time.</p>
<p>I know that many people would say that there are plugins to do these functions, Yes there are, but less is more, if its only 8 lines of code that you can easily paste in the functions file then why use a plugin.</p>
<p>So lets begin.</p>
<p></p>
<hr />
<h4>Add 3 custom sidebars</h4>
<p>Adds 3 custom sidebar for you to use in the widget section of WordPress. simply remove / add as many as you need. (<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_sidebar/" rel="nofollow">register_sidebar</a> codex)</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true">&lt;?php
function custom_sidebar_function() {
    register_sidebar(
        array (
            'name' =&gt; __( 'Custom Sidebar 1', 'text-domain' ),
            'id' =&gt; 'custom-sidebar-widget1',
            'description' =&gt; __( 'Custom Sidebar 1', 'text-domain' ),
            'before_widget' =&gt; '', 
            'after_widget' =&gt; "", 
            'before_title' =&gt; '', 
            'after_title' =&gt; ''
        ) 
    );
    register_sidebar(
        array (
            'name' =&gt; __( 'Custom Sidebar 1', 'text-domain' ),
            'id' =&gt; 'custom-sidebar-widget1',
            'description' =&gt; __( 'Custom Sidebar 1', 'text-domain' ),
            'before_widget' =&gt; '', 
            'after_widget' =&gt; "", 
            'before_title' =&gt; '', 
            'after_title' =&gt; ''
        ) 
    ); 
    register_sidebar(
        array (
            'name' =&gt; __( 'Custom Sidebar 1', 'text-domain' ),
            'id' =&gt; 'custom-sidebar-widget1',
            'description' =&gt; __( 'Custom Sidebar 1', 'text-domain' ),
            'before_widget' =&gt; '', 
            'after_widget' =&gt; "", 
            'before_title' =&gt; '', 
            'after_title' =&gt; ''
        ) 
    );  
} 
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'custom_sidebar_function' ); 
?&gt;
</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Add a custom menu</h4>
<p>Adds a custom menu to wordpress which you can then use in your widgets. (<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_nav_menu/" rel="nofollow">register_nav_menu</a> codex)</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true">&lt;?php
add_action( 'init', 'register_custom_menu' );

function register_custom_menu() {
  register_nav_menu('custom-menu',__( 'Custom Menu' ));
}
?&gt;</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Add a settings page</h4>
<p>Adds a settings page to the settings panel in WordPress with a textbox setting to get you started. (<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_submenu_page/" rel="nofollow">add_submenu_page</a> codex) (<a href="http://joshfisher.io/how-to-add-options-menus-to-wordpress/" rel="nofollow">Options Menu Video Tutorial</a>) (<a href="http://joshfisher.io/how-to-add-settings-to-your-options-pages-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow">Settings Video Tutorial</a>)</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true">&lt;?php

//myTheme ADMIN MENU
add_action('admin_menu', 'myTheme_menu'); 

function myTheme_menu() {
 add_submenu_page(
		'options-general.php', 
		'myTheme Settings',
		'myTheme Settings', 
		'edit_posts', 
		basename(__FILE__), 
		'coupon_settingspage'
	);

	add_action( 'admin_init', 'myTheme_settings');
}

//myTheme REGISTER SETTINGS
function myTheme_settings() {
 register_setting( 'myTheme-sgroup', 'textBox' );
 }

//myTheme SETTINGS PAGE
function myTheme_settingspage() {
 
 if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
 wp_die( __('You do not have sufficient privileges to access this page.') );
 }
 
 $textBox = esc_attr( get_option('textBox') );

 ?&gt;
 
 &lt;div class="wrap"&gt;
 &lt;?php settings_errors(); ?&gt;
 &lt;form method="post" action="options.php"&gt;
 &lt;?php settings_fields( 'myTheme-sgroup' ); ?&gt;
 
 &lt;?php do_settings_sections( 'myTheme-sgroup' ); ?&gt;
 
 &lt;input type="text" id="textBox" name="textBox" value="&lt;?php echo $textBox; ?&gt;"&gt;
 
 &lt;?php submit_button(); ?&gt;
 &lt;/form&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 
&lt;?php }</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Add custom CSS &amp; JS scripts to the header or footer</h4>
<p>Remember to create a main.css file and scripts.js file in your theme directory and update the directory paths. (<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_enqueue_style/" rel="nofollow">wp_enqueue_style</a> codex) (<a href="http://joshfisher.io/how-to-make-your-own-custom-css-js-wordpress-plugin/">Video Tutorial</a>)</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true">&lt;?php
function add_theme_styles() {
  wp_enqueue_style( 'custom-styles', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/assets/css/main.css',array(),null,'all');
}
function add_theme_scripts() {
  wp_enqueue_script( 'custom-script', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/assets/js/min/scripts-min.js',array('jquery'), null, true);
}

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'add_theme_styles');
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'add_theme_scripts');
?&gt;</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Add google analytics to header</h4>
<p>Add that precious tracking code to the header of your site with ease.  (<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_head">wp_head</a> codex)</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true ">&lt;?php
add_action('wp_head', 'add_google_analytics');
function add_google_analytics() { ??&gt;
// Paste your Google Analytics code here
&lt;?php } ??&gt;
</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Add a custom shortcode</h4>
<p>Add a custom shortcode to do what you want with the one below shows a h1 title and a h3 subtitle. (<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_shortcode" rel="nofollow">add_shortcode</a> codex) (<a href="http://joshfisher.io/how-to-make-your-own-custom-shortcode-wordpress-plugin/">Video Tutorial</a>)</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true">&lt;?php
// [myshortcode title="My Title" subtitle="My Subtitle"]
function shortcode_func( $atts ) {
    $a = shortcode_atts( array(
        'title' =&gt; 'something',
        'subtitle' =&gt; 'something else',
    ), $atts );

  $message = '&lt;h1&gt;' . $a['title'] . '&lt;/h1&gt;';
  $message .= '&lt;h3&gt;' . $a['subtitle'] . '&lt;/h3&gt;';

    return $message;
}
add_shortcode( 'myshortcode', 'shortcode_func' );
?&gt;</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Remove orphan words</h4>
<p>Puts a space between the second to last word so no paragraph ends with one word on a new line, not really a function more JavaScript but still useful</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true ">&lt;?php
add_action('wp_footer', 'add_orphan_script');
function add_orphan_script() { ?&gt;

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  jQuery(function($){
    $(document).ready(function(){
      $('p').each(function(){var string = $(this).html();string = string.replace(/ ([^ ]*)$/,' $1');$(this).html(string);});
    });
  });
&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;?php } ?&gt;
</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Echo theme / child / plugin directory</h4>
<p>Useful when your enqueueing scripts or when your referencing an image in your theme directory.</p>
<p>Theme / Child Directory &#8211; <em>/wp-content/themes/myTheme</em></p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true">&lt;?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); ?&gt;</pre>
<p>Plugin Directory &#8211; <em>/wp-content/plugins/</em></p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true">&lt;?php echo plugins_url( '/assets/css/main.css', __FILE__ ); ?&gt;</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Conditional header tag.</h4>
<p>Show something on one page but not the others? run scripts on the home page? make a certain page a different colour?</p>
<p>All can be achieved with conditional tags, they are used to do exactly that, run a specific piece of code on a specific post or page.</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true ">&lt;?php
add_action('wp_head', 'conditional_tags');
function conditional_tags() { 

    if ( is_front_page() &amp;&amp; is_home() ) { ?&gt;
    //FRONT PAGE CSS
    &lt;?php
    } elseif ( is_front_page() ) {
    // static homepage
    } elseif ( is_home() ) {
    // blog page
    } elseif ( is_page(PAGE ID) ) {
    // a page
    } elseif ( is_post(POST ID) ) {
    // a post
    }

} ?&gt;
</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Add no follow to all external links</h4>
<p>For SEO useful if you want to make sure Robots stay on your site and dont drift off somewhere you dont want them to go.</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true ">&lt;?php
add_action('wp_footer', 'add_orphan_script');
function add_orphan_script() { ?&gt;

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  
jQuery(function($){$( 'a' ).each(function() {
    if( location.hostname === this.hostname || !this.hostname.length ) {
      
    } else {
       $(this).attr('rel','nofollow');
    }
});

&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;?php } ?&gt;
</pre>
<hr />
<h4>Echo Yoast Description &amp; Keyword</h4>
<p>For SEO echo the contents of the Yoast meta boxes on the post or page, using the below snippets.</p>
<p>Will Require a bit of PHP knowledge</p>
<p>Echo Focus Keyword</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true ">&lt;?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), '_yoast_wpseo_focuskw', true); ?&gt;
</pre>
<p>Echo Meta Description</p>
<pre class="lang:php decode:true">&lt;?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), '_yoast_wpseo_metadesc', true); ?&gt;
</pre>
<p>If you have any problems or questions please let me know in the comments and I will happily assist.</p>

10+ Really Useful WordPress Functions

<p>Here are some top tips to help speed up your WordPress site, <b>warning </b>this process involves altering your theme and WordPress do not attempt this if your unclear on the workings of WordPress as you may damage your site in the process.</p>
<p>Anyway lets begin.</p>
<p></p>
<ol class="liststyle" style="padding: 0px0px0px20px;">
<li>
<h5><b>Reduce your plugins</b></h5>
<p>You dont need a lot of plugins to make your site better they can be clunky and cause the speed to drop for your site, the solutions is to only pick plugins that are vital to your WordPress site and remove unnecessary plugins that you no longer use or need.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Compress your images</b></h5>
<p>Always, always, always optimise your images before uploading to your WordPress site, there are several sites out there that compress your images online, <a href="http://compresspng.com/">Compress PNG</a> or <a href="http://compressjpeg.com/">Compress JPG</a> is an excellent tool for compressing your images or you can get a a plugin called WP-Smush which handles compressing images on your site and continues to compress any new images you upload.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Resize your images</b></h5>
<p>Resize your images before uploading them to your WordPress site, if you intend to use an image to fill a 500px x 500px box then resize the image to 500px x 500px, as on several occasions we have spotted users uploading 3000px x 2000px images for a simple thumbnail, if you upload it at that size then your site will slow down, because it still needs to get that image.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Compress your JS &amp; CSS files</b></h5>
<p>Your CSS stylesheets and JS Scripts are a factor to the speed of your WordPress site but can also be its downfall. A lot of themes nowadays are compressing there stylesheets and script files to help improve the speed of your site. But older themes and some new themes come with there stylesheets uncompressed and can cause long load times for some sites. Compressing the CSS styles and JS files can be done via several caching plugins.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Leverage browser caching</b></h5>
<p>Every time someone visit your site they cache it, meaning the browser takes a copy and stores it so that when you come back to the site later it loads quicker as it already has everything from the first visit.</p>
<p>Browser caching is a set of rules in your .htaccess file that basically says for each of the file type cache for a length of time and then after an amount of time come back and get a fresh copy, by stating which file types have what caching time you decrease the time a page has to be refreshed and thus speed up the site load time.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content</b></h5>
<p>This can be a bit temperamental at times, this basically means that you need to move some of your styles and scripts out of the header as this effects loadtime of the site, but be warned as some styles and scripts require to be in the header to set off other functions and scripts, I noticed that the llook of the site changed dramatically when I moved a style sheet into the footer, so its worth dfoing one by one then checking to make sure everything is good, last thing you want is to move them all to the footer and everything breaks.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Check your theme</b></h5>
<p>When purchasing a theme its always best to pick a them thats responsive and fast, there are many themes that show off with fancy transitions and special effects but having too many special effects can slow the site down, as it has to load those special functions each time a user visits your page. Picking a simple and fast theme is always a good start. From a development point of view you can use <a href="https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/" rel="nofollow">Theme Check</a> to check the theme for any bugs or problems.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Define Memory to WordPress</b></h5>
<p>If you have done everything you can to speed up your WordPress site and its still running slowly then then the next thing you can do is <b>define the memory usage in your WordPress wp-config.php file</b> to do that you need to add the line</p>
<p><code>Define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');</code></p>
<p>This tells WordPress how much memory it has to play with, refresh and it should be faster.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Upgrade your hosting</b></h5>
<p>If your having issues with your site speed even when you&#8217;ve optimised the site to the best of it can be, then you can always talk to your hosting provider as most providers have upgradable packages for sites that have a lot of traffic and need more power to run.</li>
<li>
<h5><b>Page Speed Insights</b></h5>
<p>Google offer a terrific <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/">tool</a> for helping you identify problems with your WordPress site, including what images need compressing, what style sheets and scripts need to be moved and other useful tips.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you feel we&#8217;ve missed any vital tips then please let us know in the comments.</p>

10 Ways to Speed-up Your WordPress Site

<p>I published my first WordPress Plugin.</p>
<p>Thats right I have published my first WordPress plugin, and its live.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/helpbox-information/">Helpbox Information</a> is a simple to use plugin, install is simple, add the header tag provided by the plugin and the result is a floating tab that sits on the right side of your website and when the user clicks on it, it pops out and displays a list of questions populated by the website admin with a dropdown answer.</p>
<p></p>
<p>You can do some customisations change the colour, have a header image, or video or none at all, your choice. I will be adding new features as time goes on.</p>
<p>You can try it out by clicking the the question mark tab floating on this page. If your on mobile it wont be viewable as Im making an alternative mobile version.</p>
<p>Im well chuffed, I&#8217;m actually quite surprised WordPress accepted it, but I suppose this is my chance to really make this plugin worth something and perhaps make it big, you never know viral things happen like that. Im not gonna get my hopes up you never know a year down the line the plugin might not even have more than a 100 downloads. but we&#8217;ll see.</p>
<p>The plugin is availble through the WordPress plugin screen simply search Helpbox Information or click this <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/helpbox-information/">link</a></p>

I Published My First WordPress Plugin.

<p>My first 3 months as a freelancer is going pretty well.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve lost my sleep schedule I end going to bed at 2/3 every night and get up at 12 which to some sounds like the best time but really it isn&#8217;t.<span id="selectionBoundary_1484573478223_3981392486212493" class="rangySelectionBoundary" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span></p>
<p></p>
<p>A lot of the clients I work with are abroad like the US or parts of France or Germany so I have adapt to a timezone that suits everyone, it&#8217;s what is expected when working freelance.</p>
<p>The money isn&#8217;t great I must admit but it&#8217;s the first couple of months so it&#8217;s not gonna be brilliant be prepared to live close to the breadline and stash some savings away just in case you reach that point and need some cash for bills and stuff.</p>
<p>Eventually you&#8217;ll get there you&#8217;ll have to go 110% with some clients and do big jobs for next to nothing to earn some rep.</p>
<p>There are several freelance sites around that you can sign up to and get working, but with most the sites you do have to build up a profile and get some feedback before anyone notices you.</p>
<p>Freelance sites:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.upwork.com/">Upwork</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.peopleperhour.com/">People Per Hour</a> | <a href="https://www.peopleperhour.com/freelancer/josh/wordpress-developer-front-end-dev/1058788">My PPH Profile</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.freelancer.co.uk/">Freelancer</a></li>
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<p>I&#8217;ve found out that by bidding low on some proposals will get you the work, people don&#8217;t tend to go for the most expensive. People are cheap, be aware people will expect something for nothing .</p>
<p>People will end up adding additional amends to the original proposal and you can either tell them it&#8217;s gonna cost more or you just do it, my advice is when starting out just do the extra job if it is a massive job then yes charge them but if it&#8217;s only a small job then just get on with it.</p>
<p>There can be a language barrier sometimes when it comes to these sites, I will admit that a lot of the community on freelance sites does come from the other side of the world, don&#8217;t get me wrong you can find brilliant freelancers who do excellent work from India, Packistan etc, but sometimes you will have a language barrier when discussing projects and it can be difficult to get across what you want.</p>
<p>I have dealt with several clients who had their work built abroad as it cost a fraction but after looking at some of the sites created, some are excellent, but some are just disappointing, poorly built and your surprised how they are even running in the first place. Your last resort is to start a fresh or try and repair what&#8217;s left but if there has been a disagreement between the client and the old developer then you&#8217;ve got no chance of getting any info on the theme if you needed it, as they dont exactly come with documentation.</p>
<p>My point is that you should go for someone that you feel confident with and you can communicate clearly with it may mean a little extra but its worth it to have your project completed on time and to what you asked for.</p>
<p>It is fun at the end of the day don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ve been wanting to do freelance or run my own business for sometime now and I&#8217;m doing it, it&#8217;s going well I have some goals I want to achieve and I&#8217;m aiming for them.</p>

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