After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, Simon worked with some of the biggest brands in Ireland, designing and improving UX on websites and applications. He has led the design process for many large scale websites and co-ordinated the execution of projects from mockups right through to the final front-end code.
He is interested in modern, functional design with a focus on speed, clean typography and conversions. Lately he has been primarily building sites and mobile-first apps for WordPress, the world’s most popular CMS.
In 2014 Simon co-founded MadeInContext and has since designed and produced a number of best-selling WordPress eCommerce and Business themes under the banner of CommerceGurus and from 2016 CreateandCode.
The official widget from Twitter was not explicitly designed for WordPress but I think it’s the best option for embedding tweets on your site.
It allows you to display tweets from a range of sources including your own feed, tweets you have favorited, tweets from lists you have created, search queries, and collections.
Today we’re featuring a very useful plugin that allows you to customize the fields that are displayed when completing the checkout process in WooCommerce.
You may need to display extra fields such as a delivery date or indeed you might want to remove unnecessary ones just as the phone number to streamline the checkout process. Nobody wants to spend time filling out form inputs if they’re not actually required.
It’s one of the oldest tricks in the business book – creating scarcity. When faced with impending scarcity, many customers will try and beat the countdown and buy. It might be just what is required to convert a hesitant customer into a sale – the notion that the deal will not be available at that price for long.
Continuing our feature on must have WooCommerce plugins, today we feature a very useful instant search results add-on called YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search.
As one starts type in the search box, the products starts appears in the drop-down instantly. A customer can directly click on the relevant search items instead of going to search page and find out what he or she is looking for.
Continuing our series on useful plugins for WooCommerce, today we feature a vital plugin for every store owner – an image optimizer plugin.
With large vibrant photography a key component of eCommerce sites, a downside are large image sizes leading to a slower browsing experience for a user.
