Author: Neil

  • Learning to use Linux for WordPress development

    Learning to use Linux for WordPress development

    When I first joined the team at PIE, my lack of Linux knowledge was a genuine concern. I had always been immersed in Windows environments, and it was the operating system I felt most at ease with. The thought of venturing beyond the familiarity of Windows never really crossed my mind. However, leaping out of…

  • Elevate Your SEO: Looking at SmartCrawl Pro as an alternative to Yoast SEO

    If you’re currently using Yoast SEO and looking to explore new possibilities without the hassle, let me introduce you to SmartCrawl Pro. In this post, we’ll dive into what makes SmartCrawl Pro stand out, discuss the smooth transition from Yoast, and help you decide if this could be the SEO upgrade your website needs. Discovering…

  • Supporting a custom wp-content directory on WP Engine

    This week, we successfully migrated a client’s website to WP Engine, a move that brought to light an unexpected challenge inherent in the WP Engine platform. Initially set up by the original developer, the site was configured to utilize custom directories for both wp-content and wp-content/uploads—let’s refer to them as “stuff” and “stuff/things” for this…

  • Get a free month of WPEngine hosting

    Love your WordPress site? Make it faster, tougher and smarter with top notch hosting at a 50% saving. Plus a month free if you sign up before the end of May! At PIE, we work with specialist WordPress hosting provider WPEngine, to bring our customers high quality hosting at an affordable price. Why is it…

  • WP Engine discount – now even better

    I can’t recommend  the rock solid performance of Pie & WP Engine enough for any business’ website. I’ve been with them now for a few months, and the experience has been, and is, fantastic. Richard Heathcote Voiceover Artist – http://www.richardheathcote.co.uk/ Tell me about this WP Engine Discount We have been using WP Engine as our preferred…

  • NOT ALL HOSTING IS EQUAL

    NOT ALL HOSTING IS EQUAL

    Our hosting package comes straight from WP Engine. We chose WP Engine hosting because we found their reputation for being an awesome specialist WordPress hosting provider to be entirely justified.

  • WordPress Support, Maintenance & Hosting

    WordPress Support, Maintenance & Hosting

    Broken your site? Need a bespoke plugin? Need your theme to be just so? We offer two tiers of support pricing, billed by the minute, not the hour. All packages are covered by an SLA so you know what to expect from us.

  • WordPress Plugin Development

    WordPress Plugin Development

    From simple API integrations to building an entire application platform based upon WordPress, we have the development experience and WordPress expertise to integrate the functionality that you need into the platform that you love using.

  • WordPress and WooCommerce

    WordPress and WooCommerce

    We offer professionally built WordPress websites with a choice of themes, customisation, SEO audit, social media integration and on site analytics setup. For ecommerce sites, we have a loads of WooCommerce experience.

  • HTML5 quote attribution

    HTML5 quote attribution

    I often come across the situation when working on a client site where I need to mark up a soundbite. Usually a client testimonial or similar in some kind of business site. The problem I find is that these sorts of testimonial quotes all come complete with their own source references and I’ve struggled to…