jtowell

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After many years coding in many different languages and platforms I have found my niche developing WordPress and WooCommerce Customisations.

I get a kick out of helping clients achieve customisations that fit their specific needs.

I joined Stack Overflow to try and help give back to the invaluable community that it is. I have spent many an hour searching Stack Overflow for answers to tricky issues. Now I would like to try and help others in a similar way. It will also help to reinforce what I have learnt and without a doubt teach me even more from others suggestions.

If you would like to hire me, please get in touch.

My Best Tips

  1. Always use a child theme - this allows you to makes changes to the theme without them being lost when the theme is updated. It also allows you to add custom WooCommerce templates.
  2. Look at the history and support issues for a plugin before deciding to use a new one, this can be a great indication of the quality of the plugin.
  3. Yes you can add all your customisations to the functions.php in your child theme, but if the customisation is not theme related it really should go in a plugin. That way if you ever decide to change themes you don't loose other custom functionality.