Journal - Our Agency Blog
This is where we write about what the team have been working on, as well as more in-depth articles about WordPress development, WooCommerce, LearnDash and e-Learning systems.
How to stop WooCommerce calling admin-ajax.php on all page loads to improve performance.
WooCommerce makes a call to admin-ajax.php on every page view, to retrieve shopping cart data. As this happens asynchronously, the page view can still be cached – which is great, but the request back to admin-ajax.php can’t be and results in a full un-cached load of WordPress and WooCommerce for reach request. Quite a lot […]
In the studio: API integrations, GDPR compliance, scaling up a LearnDash site, improving user experience and tracking the International Space Station!
There was a definite theme to the work we were doing in March in the Delicious studio – lots of API integrations! We used various APIs from Google, Amazon, YouTube and Mapbox on various clients’ websites to improve the usefulness of content for users, add functionality for clients and keep them compliant with strict selling […]
Developing for WordPress multisite – tips for developers.
WordPress Multisite is an excellent tool for building networks of related sites. I’ve been working with WordPress multisite for a long time, in fact since it was a fork of WordPress called WordPress MU which merged back into WordPress in 3.0 and was released in 2010. Over that time I’ve worked on WordPress multisite projects […]
In the studio: Multilingual site registration, SSO, LearnDash custom reporting, course feedback and Chrome developer tools
It’s been a month of testing and tweaks to LearnDash websites this month and we still had time for some learning of our own at this month’s WordPress Leeds meetup… Multilingual site registration, custom reporting and implementing LearnDash Single Sign-On (SSO) for a travel industry client Our next project on this LearnDash website was to […]
WordPress powered multi-event delegate directory, a meeting room booking system and tombstones.
We’ve had a very busy start to 2023 with lots of projects both large and small for existing clients. This month, we’ve been working on adding custom (and complex!) functionality for some clients alongside more straightforward design and layout tweaks for others… Adding tombstones to a law firm client’s site Nothing to do with novelty […]
Eight ways to make your dry or technical training material more engaging
It’s a common reality that companies often need to offer training on dry, technical, or even boring subject areas. This could be compliance training or even the company’s internal policies and procedures. While these topics may not always be the most exciting for learners, they are still important for employees to understand and adhere to. […]
