Stewart Ritchie's articles

We’ve heard it many times: the loading speed of your website is critical to success, and has a direct impact on your SEO, discoverability, UX, CX, and even bottom line. But chasing speed can be a sisyphean task, and being able to find the right areas to put your… Read More

Brand new look, same great team As you can see, we’ve had a makeover. Whilst this proverbial lick of paint is definitely something worth blogging about, we’re taking the opportunity to talk about the future of Powered by Coffee too. Powered by Coffee came to be 10 years… Read More

Before looking deeper into WordPress and Docker together we have to understand Docker and how it works. Understanding Docker in deeper detail means that we can really get to know it and appreciate what it’s doing behind the scenes. In Docker concepts part 1, we will look at… Read More

Docker is an increasingly popular containership option for WordPress. In our previous blog post, we introduced you to the container. But now that you know what it is, we’re digging deeper into what it is and why it’s proving to be so popular. What is Docker?… Read More

If you work in software, IT, or DevOps, you’ll have heard of Docker. But you’d be forgiven for not being overly familiar with it. Docker has recently taken over the container ecosystem and is increasingly a core part of developer operations and IT management in larger companies. Read More

I’ve always been passionate about giving back to the community. Whether it’s the WordPress community, our local community in Wimbledon, or communities in need, giving back is an important part of what Powered by Coffee does.  Until now, any giving we did or support we gave… Read More

WordPress is great but working with it can be cumbersome for developers. Twig and Timber are some tools we use to make it easier. The default templating system is basic PHP template calls that output HTML, giving us complete freedom to do what we want, how… Read More

Recently Powered By Coffee had the privilege of being involved in BIMA’s Digital Day programme seeing Stewart sent back to college (Woking) to give their sixth form IT students insight into digital careers and opportunities in the current I.T industry. BIMA Digital Day is a… Read More

At the start of October I had the great privilege of attending and speaking at WordCamp Belfast WordCamp Belfast was the first WordCamp ever organised in Northern Ireland and it was a sheer delight. It was great spending time in the fine city of Belfast… Read More