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Faster, Greener & Cleaner WordPress Websites, Clearcut Derby & Leaflet Lion. πŸ”— https://clearcutderby.uk
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Album cover love πŸ–€ Some really nice, grainy black and white photography for RΓΆyksopp's True Electric. A mixed compilation of edits focused on the clubbier side of their music, following a tour of the same name. Pure. Friday. Fire.

Finito 🦁 Rounding out the week with a further round of updates and tweaks to the Leaflet Lion website. It's now the fastest it's ever been πŸš€ Job done. WordPress theme - Twenty Twenty-Five Built with - The block editor Have a cracking Friday and weekend, people 🀩 #wordpress

PlayStation website in 2006 #WebDesignHistory

Bing SEO Week πŸ“ˆ Day 5 of 5. Even though the logo doesn't line up with the menu below it πŸ€ͺ the Bing Webmaster Guidelines are a cracking resource to bookmark. Admittedly, not the most exciting thing you're going to read, but super-useful to have on hand when planning for SEO.

If you're after a decent pair of noise-cancelling headphones under a hundred squiders, the Sony WH-CH720N come highly recommended. My XM4's died a death today, and these are just as good in terms of sound quality and noise cancellation 🎧

From stock vector to a unique(ish), branded visual asset. Editing stock vector graphics is a cracking way to add on-brand visuals to your website without it costing a fortune. These types of files can also be exported at tiny sizes to help boost your loading times πŸš€

Bing SEO Week πŸ“ˆ Day 4 of 5. Bing Places for Business is the Microsoft equivalent of your Google Business Profile. Added bonus - If you're already set up on Google, you can transfer all of your details straight over. clearcutderby.uk/what-is-bing...

🚨 Loop WP, Issue 163 is out now! This week in my newsletter about WordPress - WordPress has a rare chance to reform Five for the Future. All contributions matter, "code" or not. The next six months are critical for real change. πŸ‘‡

interesting times ahead... blog.google/technology/d... @devs.uk - might be some more ideas coming!

Little bit of work on the Leaflet Lion website over the next few days. Tropical leaves are being swapped out with some cleaner vector graphics for reduced file size and improved loading speed πŸš€ All being built with the default WordPress theme and block editor. Love it 🀩 #wordpress #webdesign

Bing SEO Week πŸ“ˆ Day 3 of 5. Bing Webmaster Tools is the Microsoft equivalent of your Google Search Console account. It's well worth setting this up to keep track of how folks are finding you on Bing. You'll also be able to view valuable insights to use in your SEO campaigns.

Bing SEO Week πŸ“ˆ Day 2 of 5. Now that we've covered the importance of optimising your website for Bing (hello, ChatGPT 🀩), here are a few pointers to get you started. clearcutderby.uk/how-seo-work... #seo #chatgpt

So we did the @wpbuilds.com podcast today. There's always a ton of people in the chat, watching the podcast, and there's about 50 to 100 messages during an episode. Wow, did the chat explode when we talked AI today. I've never been on an episode before that took off like that.

It's Monday! Which means my email marketing newsletter, "All About Email" Issue 195, is hitting inboxes later today. (It's also the last Monday before the school holidays in Northern Ireland and then the madness begins.) Feel free to subscribe below. πŸ‘‡

I've used @yoast.com for well over a decade, and it continues to play a critical role in how I technically optimize my sites for search engines. While I don't use or need all of its features, it still provides the ones I need most. coywolf.com/guides/yoast... #SEO #WordPress

Bing SEO Week πŸ“ˆ Day 1 of 5. Chat GPT has become the new standard in how a lot of folks search online. Bing powers a significant portion of the results that ChatGPT displays. To start showing up in ChatGPT, focus more of your SEO efforts on Bing 🎯

Don't use headings to arbitrarily style text. If you apply β€œHeading 4” style, you add a <h4> heading tag to the item. When screen reader users navigate from heading to heading, the item will be treated as a heading. This will be confusing. Only treat actual headings as headings.

Interactivity API, WordPress 6.8.2, Transitions API and Pride Photo Drive β€” Weekend EditionΒ #333 Read onlineIssue #333 | June 21, 2025 Hi there, Are you ready for a summer break of the Gutenberg Times? I am definitely ready for a vacation. It's been a fabulous first half of the year with plenty of…

Harper is a free English grammar checker that can be considered an #opensource alternative to Grammarly (forgot this existed). writewithharper.com github.com/automattic/h... #Rust

Finito! A simpler, bolder design system made from vector graphics with tiny file sizes (even at full width / 2560px wide). The results: Improved loading times and around a 1% improvement on the Website Carbon Calculator per page 🌱 Enjoy your weekend, people β˜€οΈ #wordpress #webdesign

Now playing - Today's charity shop treasure πŸ”Š We are Scientists - With Love and Squalor (2005) πŸ’Ώ Pure Friday fire πŸ”₯ #music #band

Free digital sustainability resources to bookmark - Day 5 of 5. For day five, it's the greenio.tech website by GaΓ«l Duez. Highlights include their blog, newsletter and my personal favourite, their podcast 🎧 Highly recommended reading and listening πŸ™ŒπŸ»

Huge thanks to Creative Boom for featuring my two cents in their recent article, How creatives are surviving the 2025 slowdown. Much appreciated πŸ€©πŸ™πŸ» www.creativeboom.com/tips/how-cre...

Regardless of AIO, AEO, LLMO, or SEO - I absolutely love seeing folks experiment with ways to optimize sites & pages for the new mediums & systems. AI isn't going away, and many online marketers are crazy, creative, super-smart, and keen on getting more & more visibility there.

SEO really is dead πŸ€ͺ Welcome to the world of 0% visibility for you and all of your competitors πŸ“‰ At least, until the Semrush reporting is fixed 🀣 #seo

Gradually rolling out some new simplified vector graphics across the Clearcut Derby website. They're between half and a third of the size of the previous vectors, with instant improvements on mobile loading times πŸš€ WordPress theme - Twenty Twenty-Five Hosting - 20i #wordpress

Free digital sustainability resources to bookmark - Day 4 of 5. lowwwcarbon.com is a showcase of some of the cleanest websites on the internet. Hugely inspiring with so much to learn from each example. Highlights include: β€’ Case Studies β€’ Lowest Carbon

99% of people who write into SparkToro support are so cool and friendly... Either the Internet marketing world is just filled with delightful humans or we've somehow created a filter that brings 'em to us. Either way, I'm very happy about this.

Happy Hump Day! 🐫 My newsletter about WordPress, Loop WP will be dropping into inboxes in a few hours. Feel free to subscribe below to get the latest edition. πŸ‘‡

A new WordPress maintenance page is now live on the Clearcut Derby website with a refined design system. It's the quickest to load out of all of the main pages, as well as being the most sustainable, with only 0.05 grams of carbon produced every time someone loads the page 🌱

Free digital sustainability resources to bookmark - Day 3 of 5. sustainablewebdesign.org Highlights include: β€’ Useful Resources β€’ The Web Sustainability Guidelines β€’ The Sustainable Web Manifesto

Gotta say, this looks extremely promising as an SEO solution for WordPress 🀩 Lovely clean UI, too πŸ™ŒπŸ» Discover via Pascal Claro of WP Roads over on YouTube. youtu.be/HtXLTJatNas?...

On June 17, 2009, iPhone OS 3.0 was released. #MobileAppHistory

For screen readers to recognize headings, heading text can't just be body text or normal text that's been made to look bigger and bolder. It must be formatted as a heading. In Microsoft Word and Google Docs, this can be done in the styles box. In HTML, use the tags h1 through h6.

Free digital sustainability resources to bookmark - Day 2 of 5. One of my all-time faves 🀩 The Green Web Foundation website is definitely one to save. www.thegreenwebfoundation.org Highlights πŸ‘‡πŸ» β€’ Green hosting checker β€’ Green web hosting directory β€’ Their blog and newsletter

Avoid jargon and buzzwords whenever possible. When you have to use terms that might not be commonly known or used among your audience, explain what these terms mean. If you can't avoid a lot of specific terms, include a glossary of terms that users can refer to when needed.

20 years of evolution of web design trends. The Pirate Bay homepage in 2005 vs. The Pirate Bay homepage in 2025 #WebDesignHistory

Incoming πŸ‘€ While it's the least enjoyable, WordPress maintenance is the most in-demand service I offer. It will soon have its own dedicated page with some new experimental vector graphics for even teeny tinyer file sizes.

It's Monday! And what an interesting weekend it was. My email marketing newsletter, "All About Email" get's a little bit personal this week as well the usual weekly topic. Dropping into inboxes in a few hours. Feel free to subscribe below. πŸ‘‡

For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was β€˜arsefoot’.

Free digital sustainability resources to bookmark - Day 1 of 5. This week, I'm sharing five incredible web pages, all with tonnes of useful information based around sustainable web design and digital sustainability. First up, the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines: w3c.github.io/sustainablew...

Sustainable WordPress Websites - 7 Eco-Friendly Standards 🌱 clearcutderby.uk/sustainable-... With additional insights and expertise from six other WordPress professionals working in the sustainability space ℹ️ #wordpress #sustainability

Spotted 'is WordPress eco-friendly' under the People Also Ask section, where this post was ranking, and it's up there for that keyword too (with a featured snippet) πŸ“ˆ Happy days 🀩 Enjoy your Sunday β˜€οΈ #wordpress

Google Launches Audio AI Overviews In Search Labs Test via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern - brought to you by your handy #seo helpers @Sitebulb 😊

Today's charity shop treasure πŸ’Ώ Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (2007). A double-win with the quite remarkable album artwork and the album itself being pure fire, too πŸ”₯

From WordCamp Europe to AI and Beyond: Figma, Fresh Courses, and Block Style β€” Weekend EditionΒ #332 Read onlineIssue #332 | June 14, 2025 Hi there, WordCamp Europe is over. I had a blast and also caught a bug.🀧 The next flagship WordCamp is just around the corner: WordCamp US will take place…