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Building powerful subscription sites that scale on WordPress
Posted 18th November 2019
Over the weekend I spoke at WordCamp Sydney with one of our clients, Adrian O’Hagan from Crikey & Private Media. We wanted to talk about how we have been building...Read More -
Performance and richer editorial experiences key take away at WP Engine Summit
Posted 12th August 2019
WP Engine’s Australian summit took place last week in Sydney, and I was able to attend and see the latest from WP Engine and a range of speakers. The key...Read More -
Why we don’t recommend WooCommerce for large ecommerce projects
Posted 6th May 2019
The Code Company has been working with WordPress at scale for almost a decade. During that time, we’ve been asked to work on or build high-scale ecommerce sites. It is...Read More -
Using WordPress, SQS, Lambda and Mailgun to send over 100,000 personalised transactional emails
Posted 8th March 2019
As part of a custom jobs board project that was built on top of WordPress, we had to build a system that was able to send over 100,000 personalised emails...Read More -
Upgrading enterprise WordPress websites to version 5.0
Posted 15th February 2019
Software upgrades are always easy to put off, because they are hard. This is certainly the case with WordPress 5.0 which was released on December 6 2018. In my mind,...Read More -
The future of web design comes in blocks
Posted 5th November 2018
Are you designing or overseeing the design of a new website? We’re sharing some lessons on block web design, the future-proof and more efficient way to approach web design. Over...Read More -
WordCamp Sydney: 5 Years of Application Development in WordPress
Posted 9th October 2018
At WordCamp Sydney 2018, I spoke about my experience over the last five years, working at The Code Company on our custom application development with WordPress as an underlying framework....Read More -
WordCamp Sydney 2018
Posted 15th September 2018
WordCamp Sydney is a 2-day community-organised event focused on bringing together all things WordPress. Speakers share the latest happenings in WordPress, and the event is filled with discussion, innovation, and...Read More -
Key parts to a successful annual retreat
Posted 31st August 2018
Being a remote company means staff are located all throughout the country. For this reason, we believe it’s vital to get together in both small groups but also as an...Read More -
Web Directions Code 2018
Posted 21st August 2018
The Code Company went to Web Directions Code! This Australian conference specialises in JavaScript developers and front end engineers, bringing together some of the best minds to solve problems, discuss...Read More -
Benefits of a technical background in client project management
Posted 24th July 2018
Having a project manager with a technical background will benefit your projects in more than one way. In addition to keeping things running smoothly, we are also able to navigate...Read More -
Building & Deploying WordPress to WP Engine with Bitbucket Pipelines
Posted 12th July 2018
Since the introduction of Pipelines to Bitbucket, we have been eager to use this functionality where possible, with the goal of making a third-party deployment tools such as DeployBot, redundant....Read More