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Responsive design and images optimised for modern retina displays on iPhones and iPads are a great way to future-proof your website.

Most WordPress theme developers have spotted the craze for responsive design, and more and more themes are now mobile-responsive. There are far fewer WordPress retina themes that are also responsive. [...]

WordPress customisation

This week the WordPress community is buzzing with news a wave of brute force attacks being targeted at WordPress websites.

Brute force attacks of this type are nothing new. They occur when automated botnets try to gain unauthorised access to a website through trial and error. It’s a numbers game – [...]

Today I’ve been researching the best free live chat plugins for WordPress and BuddyPress. These are in great demand as BuddyPress allows web designers to transform a WordPress website into a full social networking site, but sadly doesn’t have built-in live chat or instant messaging features. Now people are used [...]

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As you all know (!) Barn2 Media is now a leading WordPress web studio, owned and operated by myself and my husband Andy, from our offices on Dartmoor in South Devon.

When we started the business in 2009 – although Andy was an experienced web developer and I had a strong [...]

One page WordPress websites are getting more and more popular. With some great one page WordPress themes available such as SCRN and QuickStep, they’re a great way to achieve a modern and minimalist website that gives your visitors everything they’re looking for at a glance.

But there’s a problem. It’s often [...]

There aren’t many furniture WordPress WooCommerce themes designed specifically for e-commerce websites selling furniture online. We’ve tried and tested some of the best WordPress WooCommerce themes and found some that are a great fit for furniture websites in 2013.

Even better, all the themes featured below are fully responsive designs, so they’ll [...]