Two new sites launched by Red E

On June 10, 2016   /   Analytics, Blog, News, SEO, WordPress  

We recently launched two new sites.

Screen visual of Lets Go Scotland website by Red E Web Design east Lothian

Lets Go Scotland

Let’s Go Scotland revamped their portfolio of holiday, long-term and student let properties with beautiful new photography and web copy written to the latest guidelines. Red E provided an easy to use content management system and on-site training.

We ensured the site worked on mobile devices. We worked on the Google Search Console and meta-data on-page SEO tasks to ensure the site has the best chance of reaching its target audience.

Screen visual of Scotland the Bread

Scotland the Bread website by Red E Web Design

Scotland the Bread launched a share offer through a new website developed by Red E. This WordPress/WooCommerce solution also handles subscriptions, donations, courses and retail products.

Developed with a strong visual design in mind from the outset the site fulfils a variety of tasks in a simple and elegant way.

Technologies (selected):

  • WordPress
  • WooCommerce and extensions
  • Yoast SEO
  • MyFonts
  • Updraft Plus

 

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Visual Composer and WordPress 4.5 issue

On May 18, 2016   /   Blog, News, Plug-ins, WordPress  
wordpress logo visual composer issue

Towards the end of last month I noticed Visual Composer was causing problems for some customers. The Visual Composer content editing plug-in would not progress past the loading animation. The issue seemed to affect sites running on older versions of PHP (V5.3 or earlier). Updating the PHP version fixed one site. But on two others the problem remained. The affected sites had all been updated to WordPress V4.5 on 12 April and were using bundled versions of Visual Composer. These bundled versions are often several versions behind the latest release as the theme developers need to check them for theme compatibility. So when an update for the uDesign theme appeared on 22 April I tried it on one of the affected sites. It fixed the problem. The change-log for uDesign seemed to confirm the cause of the issue. The uDesign update on 22.04.2016 lists just one fix:

“Visual Composer” plugin (v4.11.2.1) – WordPress 4.5 Compatibility update

UDesign and Visual Composer are great products. But their developers could have saved my clients and me nearly ten days spent looking for answers by mentioning the issue when they first noticed it.

Older Themes and Visual Composer

Older versions of themes using bundled versions of VC which are not being updated are susceptable to the same issue arising from the WordPress 4.5 update. I have found the issue with Organic Themes’ Non-profit theme V3. The solution may be to either purchase, install and configure the latest version of the theme and bundled VC or to buy a licenced version of VC.

Red E Support

Red E found a solution to this issue and applied it to all affected sites as soon as it was available, free of charge. If you think we could help you with your online work please get in touch.

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