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Transitioning from a WordPress site built using a the Avada Page builder to a native WordPress site built using Ollie Pro
This post about transitioning to the WordPress Ollie block theme is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. Key Takeaways BajanThings is built using the Ollie Pro theme. We are huge fans of Mike McAlister and Patrick Posner the team behind Ollie. Ollie…
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Moving from Google AdSense Auto Ads to Google AdSense Manual Ads on BajanThings
This post about Google AdSense Manual Ads is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. This post was updated in September 2025. In this latest iteration we use the WordPress Plugin AdInserter by SpaceTime. We are fans of AdInserter and have…
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Using AI tools to create a WordPress snippet
This post about the use of AI tools to create a WordPress Snippet is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. This post is intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. This is a very quick post to highlight how good the AI chatbots are getting at writing code.…
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WordPress 6.7 – first impressions…
This post about WordPress 6.7 is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. WordPress 6.7 – the latest version of WordPress launched in the UK on 12th November 2024 at about 10pm. Here are a few of the WordPress 6.7 Reviews I read:…
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Moving BajanThings to the Ollie block theme
This post about transitioning to the Ollie block theme is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. Update 20th August 2024 – based on our success in transitioning BajanThings to Ollie we have upgraded to Ollie Pro and we have cleaned…
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Transitioning from a WordPress Classic theme to a WordPress Block Theme…
This post about making the transition from a WordPress classic theme to a WordPress block theme (aka FSE theme) is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. This is going to be a work-in-progress post trialling the move from a WordPress…
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Increasing the mobile PageSpeed Insights score from 26 to 90+ using WordPress Astra Pro theme hosted on SiteGround
This post about increasing the mobile Page Speed Insights score of BajanThings is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. November 2024 update: In October 2024 we renewed our FlyingPress and FlyingCDN subscription. BajanThings PageSpeed Insights score hovers around the 97…
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BajanThings
Bajan history. Interesting Bajan people. Hiking in Barbados and Overseas. International Travel…
Category: Website Technology
Details on the technology of how BajanThings is built and some of the plugins we use to optimise the website can be found in this category: Website Technology. (The Website Technology category is hidden in the posts listing as it is aimed at WordPress hobby website administrators like ourselves.)
General details about how the BajanThings website is built can be found in the category: Website.