Blog posts about WordPress by WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

Screenshot of the new Gutenberg editor for WordPress

The major update of WordPress, scheduled for this year, will contain a brand-new and much-improved editor.

An interview with me which first appeared on the cubetech website in June.

Am WordPress Meetup in Bern am 17. April 2018 sprach Martin Steiger über die Auswirkungen der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) auf Schweizer Website-Betreiber.

Many developers complain that WordPress is an outdated system, relying on old code for the sake of the widest range of possible support. I see that as one of the advantages of WordPress.

It was inevitable, I suppose, that I would, one day, have to start applying my experience to The Day Job instead of just my hours. Instead of just being the go-to-guy for programming, I’d have to take over a more responsible role and help other people to learn the craft and expertise of web development. […]

Through my participation of the regular and sociable “WordPress Meetup” in Bern, I was one of the volunteers who helped organize the WordCamp conference in Switzerland’s capital last weekend.

As my working career moves towards being involved with WordPress 100% of the time in future, I’ve started to gradually invest a little more of my time and effort into the WordPress community. My aim is to work with friends and colleagues to coordinate our efforts in Switzerland into bringing WordPress even more to the […]

After six years with my current employer, the time has come to move into a role which better suits my abilities and which will provide me with new challenges. I’m really excited that I’ve been asked to join WordPress agency Cubetech in Bern as Head of Development.

Spending money on an informed, experienced website concept document will usually work out cheaper than trying to battle through for days on your own. It will also mean that the end result will be more reliable and more likely to properly present your business online.

Why the software you love may not always be the right one for the project at hand, and how you can recognize and plan for it.

In 2016, 27% of all of the websites on the internet were powered by WordPress. That’s 8 times more than Joomla, 12 times more than Drupal, and 70 times more than TYPO3.

The new WordPress theme running this website has been improved by the use of WordPress’ get_template_part function.

A stripped-back, simple WordPress theme for my personal website, which I can begin extending as and when I have the time.

A summarized insight into maintaining individual features in your own WordPress plugins through the flexibility and organisation of modular development.

WordPress is much more than a simple tool for building websites. Here are a few prominent sites which use WordPress and its new REST API for much more than a simple blog.

I provide a free public Github repository containing example code for starting work on a WordPress theme which uses PHP namespaces and template parts.

I provide a free public Github repository containing example code for starting work on a WordPress plugin, which uses PHP namespaces.

Providing WordPress developers and designers in Switzerland with an online place to hang out and exchange tips and ideas.

I occasionally have a need to divert file requests on a website to a PHP script. By doing so, I can determine whether the visitor may access it, see whether an image should have a watermark automatically applied, or notify an administrator that a PDF has been viewed or downloaded. The easiest way to do […]