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Fake WordPress security emails warning – what you need to know

February 7, 2024

There is a dangerous phishing email circulating that targets WordPress users. It asks you to download and install a plugin to your WordPress website to protect you against what is a fake vulnerability. If you receive an email with the subject line “Immediate Action Needed: Vulnerability Found – Your website […]

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Why WordPress website enquiries and notifications often end up in spam folders or don’t even make it as far as a spam folder

January 10, 2024

If you’ve got a WordPress website, you’ll know the importance of receiving timely email notifications, especially enquiries from contact forms, password reset requests or an order notifications from an online shop. You might have also experienced the frustration of intermittent issues: sometimes you get the emails, and sometimes you don’t. […]

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New Year, New Success: A Business Owner’s WordPress Checklist for 2024

January 5, 2024

Welcome to a new year filled with endless possibilities and opportunities for your business to thrive. As a business owner, it’s crucial to kickstart the year on the right note, and what better way to do that than by ensuring your WordPress website is in top-notch shape? In this blog […]

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New website for Ann Jay Relationship Coach

October 20, 2023

We recently put a new site live for Ann Jay, who is a Cayman Islands based relationship coach. This was the second site we built for Ann, having originally built her New Zealand relationship coaching website. View the website online at annjayrelationshipcoach.com

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Rescuing a Website on the Brink: A Case Study in the importance of careful WordPress website management

October 10, 2023

Introduction For one unsuspecting business owner, an impending ‘perfect storm’ of WordPress issues threatened to jeopardise their online presence and commercial success. There was a genuine risk that the website would suffer from multiple technical failures and go offline. Background The client initially sought assistance from Web Matters to address […]

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Tips for Creating a Successful Business Website Using WordPress

March 7, 2023

WordPress is by far the most popular content management system for building sites, and it’s no wonder why; it’s user-friendly, customisable, and offers a range of features that make it an ideal choice for all types of business owners. With its many thousands of plugins and themes you can do […]

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Fixing WordPress Critical Errors

February 22, 2023

One of the most common WordPress errors is the ‘There has been a critical error on this website’ message that is displayed instead of your website. This error can be frustrating, but fortunately, it can be fixed with a few simple steps once you know how. What is the ‘There […]

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New Year, New Success: A Business Owner’s WordPress Checklist for 2023

January 3, 2023

Welcome to a new year filled with endless possibilities and opportunities for your business to thrive! As a business owner, it’s crucial to kickstart the year on the right note, and what better way to do that than by ensuring your WordPress website is in top-notch shape? In this blog […]

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Website design work from 2021

June 8, 2022

Here are some of the website builds completed in 2021 or early 2022. This includes a mixture of WordPress and Shopify websites and WooCommerce website design and builds. Pakworld Pakworld has been a Web Matters client for several years, so this was a re-design of their previous website. Pakworld is […]

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The beginner’s guide to getting a website designed for your business

May 30, 2022

If you’ve never paid anyone to build you a website before, this blog post is for you. Over the next 13 minutes, I’ll take you through the basics of how websites get built. By the end of this post, you should have a good understanding of the website design process, what it might cost, what to expect, and what to look out for.

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Taking over the maintenance and care of an existing WordPress website – some common issues

January 26, 2022

TLDR – too long didn’t read? Here’s the issue in a nutshell. Working on a website you’ve not built can present many challenges even for the experienced web designer, with inherited issues that can be frustrating and sometimes difficult to diagnose. There’s often a cascade effect with problem after problem […]

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Hazel Barlow Coaching website

November 3, 2021

Hazel works as a business coach and organisation development specialist across the private, public, not-for-profit sectors. She provides coaching and consulting services including organisation transition and project change. The site is online at https://hazelbarlowcoaching.co.nz

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