How Do I Write a Good AI Prompt? Ask AI What It Needs
I wanted to write an article about ‘How to Write a Good AI Prompt?’ It started from a question where I asked AI how to ask AI what I should…
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Astra Post Navigation — Customising Next/Previous Link Text
I wanted to customise the Astra post navigation labels (next/previous) on single blog posts. Easy enough with a documented code snippet… or was it?
Astra Theme: Changing Excerpt Length on Blog Post Cards
The free Astra Theme does not give you the option to change the excerpt length. This is a short debugging journey to find a solution to do this…
My Social Media Approach to the BMCS Relaunch — A Work in Progress
I’ve already shared my views on the topic of social media. So, it won’t be a surprise that I’m not posting advice here. What I am going to share is…
On-Page SEO — The Basics That Actually Make a Difference
On-page SEO gets treated as either painfully obvious or unnecessarily complicated. From my perspective there’s a short list of things worth getting right on every single post and of course…
Finding Inspiration on CodePen
The distinctive animated backgrounds on this site — the Bouncing Blobs and the Black Hole — started life as someone else’s CodePen. Here’s how I actually use sites like CodePen…
Hostinger Review (A Snapshot)
I made the move to Hostinger in November 2023 to meet the requirements of the business. Did I make the right choice? These are the pros, the cons, and where…
Getting to Grips with CSS Variables
I went a little colour crazy on the rebuild — categories, services, my portfolio — each are colour-coded. I was styling each one the hard way – type by type,…
Why Astra Is My Go-To WordPress Theme (For Now)
I’ve been using the WP Astra theme for over 8 years, so rather than a generic pros/cons list, here’s my open assessment of it – based on that experience -…
Writing a Business Plan — Getting Started as a Sole Trader
Most business planning advice ignores individual brands. Sometimes you need to ditch the complex templates and create a simple, common-sense plan built just for sole traders. This article is a…
Is My AI Disclosure Policy Really Necessary?
I added an AI Disclaimer to my Terms of Use well before the EU AI Act revision was finalised. Here’s why I didn’t wait for the deadline, the two-tier AI…
Why I Find Social Media a Necessary Evil (And How I Manage It Anyway)
The truth is I mostly loiter on social media rather than engage — that’s fine on a personal level, but not so much for business. I do have one or…
Rank Math: My Actual Setup for BMCS (Not Just the Feature List)
Plenty of Rank Math reviews just repeat the feature list. This article is about my actual setup — the wizard choices I made, the modules I use versus the ones…
How I Actually Manage My WordPress Media Library
Every image on a WordPress site costs something — storage, page weight, load time. Here’s the workflow I actually use to keep the WordPress media library cost as low as…
What using AI Taught Me During the BMCS Rebuild
This article was driven by the AI assistant it’s about — which felt like the right way to share what’s actually changing in my approach to managing sites. Here’s what…
