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Local Website support Banbury from Toast. Based in Banbury for over 20 years, we can help you with all your website support and maintenance requirements.

Posted in: Maintaining WordPress

Pay as you go SEO means that you can get optimisation done on your site as-and-when budget allows.

Posted in: WordPress SEO

Choosing a WordPress theme can be tricky. How do you know it’s going to be right for your site in the long-term?

Posted in: WordPress Resources

Theme design for WordPress can create a website that is 100% unique to your brand. We design and build themes.

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Trying to get work experience at a design agency can leave you wondering what to try next. Here are some tips.

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If you, like a lot of people, started to think about securing your WordPress website after their site has been hacked, but it is something you should consider from day one.

Posted in: WordPress Resources

GDPR lands this month, and if you (like a lot of people) have not quite got around to getting everything sorted, panic not! Our GDPR checklist is here to help!

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WordPress web projects can be quite complex, using Basecamp for managing WordPress projects makes it easier to share and organise project collateral.

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There are dozens of things that we love about it, but if you’re looking to create a new website, here are 10 reasons to choose WordPress.

Posted in: Bespoke WordPress development

WordPress is an open source platform, making it a hot target for hackers.

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It’s easy to forget or skip a few WordPress updates, but you could be in for trouble. Let us take care of updates for you – job done!

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Yes, it’s just around the corner, and yes it definitely does affect you. Get GDPR compliant now.

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Thinking about a hosted WordPress.com site instead of a custom-built one? This blog sets out the differences.

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Having a bespoke WordPress theme developed means that your site will do everything you need and nothing you don’t.This makes a huge difference if you are managing an important site.

Posted in: Bespoke WordPress development

Check out our top tips to ensure that you find your perfect partner. A new website could be the biggest business investment you make this year.

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Find out what the fuss is all about and why you need an SSL certificate for WordPress.

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There are many reasons why your site should be on HTTPS. Find out why in this blog post.

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WooCommerce is one of the best e-commerce options for WordPress.

Posted in: WooCommerce

Building a website and then forgetting SEO is like not building one in the first place.

Posted in: WordPress SEO

WooCommerce is an affordable enterprise-level e-commerce plugin for WordPress.

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Here are some reasons why your WordPress site needs to be on HTTPS.

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So what do we think is the best e-commerce option for your online store?

Posted in: WooCommerce

There are many myths about SEO that agencies still try to push onto their clients.

Posted in: WordPress SEO

WordPress speed optimisation could be the key to generating new business and making the most of your website – so what are you waiting for?

Posted in: Optimising WordPress

Meet Jade – the newest member of our WordPress team.

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Looking for some inspiration for your new website? Toast offers an unrivalled WordPress design service.

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WordPress is one of the most popular platforms you can use to build your website.

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Hosting is a vital part of your website. If you opt for cheap, sluggish hosting your site will suffer.

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WordPress is quite simply the most awesome CMS that you can use for your website – and here’s why.

Posted in: Moving to WordPress

What is website optimisation and why you need to ensure your site is optimised properly.

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With 1000s of web design agencies in the UK offering what can all seem like the same services, how do you choose who to ask for a quote?

Posted in: Digital Studio Blog

Custom theme development for WordPress means you get exactly what you need, and not loads of stuff you don’t.

Posted in: Bespoke WordPress development

WordPress makes a great platform for temporary websites for things like exhibitions and consultations.

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Getting a free Google account allows you to share and edit documents via Google Drive. We use it extensively on all our projects.

Posted in: WordPress Resources

If your website is sitting on an old CMS and is just a pain to update, consider moving to WordPress – it will make managing your site much easier.

Posted in: Moving to WordPress

One of the great things about WordPress is its flexibility. We use it to build some pretty large corporate websites, but it’s equally at home for smaller microsites.

Posted in: Digital Studio Blog

If you have a large WordPress site and you’re struggling to edit your content using the text editor alone, there are better ways to organise content in WordPress.

Posted in: Optimising WordPress

WordPress does make it relatively simple to upgrade the core WordPress files and plugins to the newest versions, but it’s never something that should be done without following the correct procedure. We see lots of sites that are seriously out-of-date. This is often down to websites being left for months with no new content or […]

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Toast offer free basic website audits to help you identify issues with your website.

Posted in: Optimising WordPress

Even as you read this post, there will probably have been some access attempts on your site – hacking is a real threat to all websites, but if yours is properly set up, you can avoid it. Protecting your site from hackers is very important. If you do get hacked it can take your site […]

Posted in: Maintaining WordPress

Known as the ‘White Screen of Death’ (or WSOD for short), this is caused by a misconfiguration or error somewhere in your install. The cause of this can be down to one or more of many different factors. You might have extra spaces (invisible) in your functions.php file, or there might be an issue with […]

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Toast can help you to improve your digital marketing efforts and show you what’s working and what isn’t.

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Your site can benefit hugely from local SEO backlinks. We can help you improve your ranking in the local search.

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WordPress makes the perfect CMS for charities, NPFs and NGOs – we can help you build the perfect site.

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We can help you to improve your WordPress SEO

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We provide ad-hoc help with WordPress. From conflicts to crashes and hacks – we can help!

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Toast can help you to improve your Woocommerce WordPress website.

Posted in: WooCommerce

We only do WordPress. If you’re looking for an agency, we can help you plan, design and build your new site.

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