A year is a long time in WordPress terms, and our free Portfolio theme has gone from strength to strength. In this article we cover some of the amazing new features we’ve introduced over the past twelve months to make this theme one of the most user-friendly free products available, with options that even a beginner will find intuitive and user-friendly.

The WordPress version of Quark steps up to the plate with a brand new set of features, bugfixes and improved options all included in v.1.1.1 of the theme, available for download now. In this article we cover some of the great new features, like Cookie Law banners, improved social media links and page loaders for a pleasant user site experience.

A recently-discovered vulnerability caused by inadvertent misinformation in the WordPress Codex has been patched in our latest set of WordPress theme updates; if you're using our themes it's important to update now. Read on and find out how!

Websites are getting heavier, with more features, more flashy CSS effects and more content. In this article we look at how you can define critical CSS to make your site’s core CSS and styling load as quickly as possible, giving users the best balance between impressive style and faster access to your site.

Mobiles make up a large part of the internet-browsing community today, and Google have acknowledged this by officially taking your site’s mobile-friendliness into account when deciding search position. This is a big change, but thankfully our templates are already up to standard. However, some users have run into issues, and we take a quick look at the causes of and solutions to the most common reasons for your GavickPro-based site falling short.

WordPress Comments provide a valuable resource for connecting with your userbase and community building, but there’s always exceptions to the rule. Sometimes you just don’t want any comments on your site, or need to limit comments on a particular page to enhance your brand image or limit confusion. In this guide we’ll discuss how to do all this and more!

The updates for Quark just keep on coming, and this time around we’ve prepared version 1.1.2 with some smooth visual improvements to our Cookie Consent banner and Search pages, along with a new dark and light graphical logo option and a batch of bug fixes to keep things running efficiently. Read on and see what Quark 1.1.2 has to offer!

The WordPress Plugin Repository is big. Really big. Which makes it hard to find the diamonds in the rough; every search you do will bring up potentially hundreds of matches, each with similar functionality and varying quality. In this article we take our pick of some of the little-known but useful plugins we’ve discovered on our travels, and let you know how to put them to use on your website.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. So goes the old adage, but just because something is working well doesn’t mean it can’t be improved, and the HTTP protocol our browsers currently use is in major need of an overhaul. With version 1.1 in use for more than 15 years, we’re finally looking at a brand new HTTP2 protocol that will help websites load faster and more smoothly than ever before. In this article we’ll cover the history of HTTP, and discuss some of the amazing new changes HTTP2 will bring.

The Quark update train has no brakes, and we’ve got another batch of great new features and fixes to add to Quark with the release of version 1.1.1 of this popular template. Login popups, script management and preloaders after the jump!