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Why we use WordPress, but only for blogs…

Posted on October 30, 2014 by

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I am writing this in WordPress, at the same time our website is built on our very own CMS where we edit content for the pages there. Why? You may ask. Well we believe that WordPress is brilliant for what it is, a blogging platform. Yes, you can extend it and yes you can add pages and create menus but the primary purpose of WordPress was always as a platform for bloggers. WordPress is also favoured by google in the search results as Google knows and understands the structure of WordPress sites, so it creawls them more specifically.

So we took a decision to use WordPress for blogs for that reason, it’s great for blogs and combined with the Yoast SEO plugin, our clients and ourselves can use it to target specific audiences and drive traffic to the rest of the site. This way we can let our CMS be great at what it does; clever templates, quick editing of content and pages, easy video search, simple file management and page linking and brilliant features like a comprehensive search and news articles without the additional features of a blog). Our CMS also means we can create some custom features in the admin system, like dropdowns for content specific to our clients and linking between sections and pages.

We think that WordPress is great and we think our CMS great, and we’re constantly thinking of ways to make them work better together and of how we can imporve our offering to our clients who want to edit and add content as simply as possible.


Embedding Youtube Videos in the Web-Feet CMS

Posted on October 14, 2014 by

One question we’ve always get asked by clients is “How can I add a video to my CMS website ?”.

This can be done by copying and pasting the embed code. However this has caused many issues with clients pasting the code in the wrong section, breaking HMTL markup validity or even messing up the page layout.

I decided to look at how we could bypass the whole issue of adding HTML and I came up with a simple search system.

v1

Anyone using the system now just has to type the title of the video they wish to add and the system will generate the HTML in the background and insert it to the webpage. All results are generated by YouTube’s search system.

v3

Once the video has been found a preview will be displayed just so the user can confirm if they have selected the right video.


Magento, HREF Lang plugin

Posted on October 3, 2014 by

One of our clients approached us to build a way that they could manage hreflangs on their Magento stores where they were looking to have multiple language versions of the site with different pages on each site. I looked at a few options online and there were some that worked provided the sites would be identical in terms of content but none that would enable control of where the links would go if there wasn’t an alternative url.

… so I built a plugin that enables our client to upload their urls in a csv with the base site in the first column and then they can add as many columns after that to upload the urls for the other language sites. The plugin then retrieves any alternate urls for any other site from the data and adds them to the <head> section of the website.

If this is a solution you think you would require for your multi language Magento, then please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@web-feet.co.uk.

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