Manchester is a city that thrives on innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship—and when it comes to e-commerce, local businesses are turning to Shopify as their go-to platform for growth. At Stepholt, we’ve worked with countless Manchester-based brands to launch and scale powerful online stores using Shopify—and here’s why it continues to be the top choice. Simplicity […]

Best Site to Build a Website: Top Platforms Compared When it comes to launching your online presence, one of the first questions to ask is: what’s the best site to build a website? At Stepholt, we specialize in helping individuals and businesses create stunning, functional websites across today’s leading platforms—tailored to your goals. Let’s break […]

25 Top Web Design Trends for 2025 The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, and 2025 is set to bring a fresh wave of web design innovations. At Stepholt, we stay ahead of the curve, crafting high-performing, visually stunning websites that captivate and convert. Whether you’re on Shopify or WordPress, we ensure your website not only […]

As a white-label Shopify agency we get asked this question quite a few times and I think the only article available on this talks about white-label products for Shopify and not white label the Shopify platform. Like most eCommerce stores you are paying to use the software, which depending on traffic, resources etc you will […]

During this festive season we wanted to make use of our christmas downtime and what better way than to push AI to see what it can do. We have some extremely talented graphic designers but to create something of this quality would take weeks or even months. So who did turn down superhero roles and […]

Shopify Partners refer to individuals or companies that collaborate with Shopify, an e-commerce platform, to provide various services and solutions for online stores. Being a Shopify Partner means that you have a formal relationship with Shopify and can access tools, resources, and support to help merchants build, launch, and grow their online businesses.   what […]

Each week on our stand-up up we discuss all things web design from inspiration to cool web design websites we have stumbled across and we take a deep dive in. As a leading digital agency in Manchester, we need to ensure we are on top of the latest trends, tech stacks, and future SEO methods. […]

over the past 12 months we have seen the evolution of AI take a huge step in rendering artwork for our websites and digital campaigns. we wrote the same command 12 months apart and we didn’t realize what our AI system rendered only 12 months ago compared to today! The Evolution Of AI In the […]

Welcome to our monthly staff posts where we deep dive into the minds of our team and get to know a little bit more about them.   How long have you been working with Shopify? We started offering Shopify services around 5 years ago as the demand became increasing, with many clients switching from Magento […]

Introducing AI for wordpress – Is it exciting times or doom and gloom for content writers. Or the years our perception of content writers is old fashioned but they write beautful words to blow your audience away. Will we get that same experience from AI? JetPack AI

We get asked by clients as a feature to ensure that breadcrumbs are part of the UX/UI on the new website build and the one thing which isn’t common knowledge is how to add it to the wordpress theme’s php. As Yoast is the number one plugin for Search Engine Optimisation on WordPress, we do […]

In the heart of Europe, where Gothic architecture meets modern innovation, Prague played host to the Drupal Con in 2022. As a fervent supporter of open-source technologies and an avid enthusiast of the Drupal platform, attending DrupalCon in Prague was a pilgrimage of sorts for me. This global gathering of developers, designers, and content creators […]

As the year comes to a close we would like to take a quick look at some of the key changes Shopify has introduced into 2021 and what we are excited about in 2022. What is Shopify 2.0 I hear you ask? The latest version of Shopify has taken all the customers feedback, anger and […]

How to Make Your Shopify Website Live If you want to know how easy it is to make a Shopify site go live then please follow our step-by-step guide and all things Shopify, brought to you by Manchesters leading Shopify Plus Agency. You’ve spent valuable time and effort creating the perfect Shopify Store, you have […]

If you’re going to build a website, there’s a few things you need to know: what you can spend, what platform you want to use, what kind of build you’re after, and whether it’s D-I-Y or you want to hire somebody to do it for you. Once you’ve answered these questions, and come up with […]

A web design company is made up of professionals that can create you a design/concept for your website – across multiple pages, or a unique style, they draw up what you describe. The perfect mix of your ideas and their creativity. A lot of people confuse Web Designers with Web Developers, but sometimes professionals offer […]

In this day and age, with the internet at the front of everything, and playing such a significant part in everything: from business, planning, retail, socialising, to news and even exercise with the new generation of internet-ready equipment, if you’re not online, it’s like you don’t exist. For Brands looking to make it in the […]

When it comes to your website – there are is a vast array of options out there – from the well-known entities, like Wix, SquareSpace, GoDaddy & Pitchero, to those lesser-known in the mainstream – like Zyro, Web.com, and Site123, the market is saturated with options for your website builder – and they’re all straightforward […]

Graphic Design encompasses a lot of different design aspects that are for visual use – it can be used to define everything from Logo Creation, in the Modern Era, all the way back to Cave Paintings 17,000 years ago, making Graphic Design an Ancient craft! The term itself, ‘graphic design’ was coined during the 1920s, […]

Responsive Web Design is one example of approaching design with a user-first mindset, aiming to render pages cleanly & effectively across the full spectrum of internet-capable devices, and adapting page layouts & features to fit with the viewing environment it is being accessed from, using certain technologies, like: 1)Proportion-Based Grids: Using a Viewport percentage, you […]

If you have update WordPress to the last version and noticed the new Gutenberg style widget edit please add the following to you theme’s functions.php files to disable it. We understand why the team at WordPress are looking to improve the ability to easily edit the backend of WordPress but it’s driving us, developers, crazy […]

First thing is to back up the server / data before driving in   Put the site in maintenance mode bin/magento maintenance:enable   If you do not have composer installed, no would be a good time 🙂 – To install the plugin: composer require magento/composer-root-update-plugin=~1.0 –no-update   If the composer runs out of memory you […]

Another way to a create admin account / user, we can create a new admin user via command line (cli). Here is how to do it. Go to Magento 2 root folder, run create a new admin user command line:   bin/magento admin:user:create It will ask you: username, password, email, first and last name. Here […]

We come across this from time to time and it’s a common issue when a client changes their domain name due to a rebrand or upgrade from .co.uk to .com When we changed a Base Url Change Magento 2 there are several sets to take but as always please take this as a guide and […]

In Magento this is how to redirect all non www pages to www pages using the .htaccess with an FTP client like FileZilla. Open up .htaccess to edit the file then do a find in file and look for #RewriteBase. #RewriteBase /magento/ under this line paste the following but remember to change www.youwebsite.com with your […]

IT’S RED NOSE DAY! Red Nose Day has arrived at stepholt and this year it’s never felt more important to have some fun and raise money to support people living incredibly tough lives as here at Holt knows someone affected. Red Nose day uses the power of funny to turn laughs into lasting change and […]

stepholt is on the lookout for a group of hard working people with a keen drive to enter the Digital World as part of our new Kickstart scheme – If you are aged between 16-24 and either want to start building websites, designing them via UI/UX or love to be customer-facing and organize staff then […]

Available Shopify API List As a shopify partner we offer a wide range of API services to connect your store to a 3rd party integration for data transfer. Below are a list of different types of APIs used on your shopify store. If you require any work with a Shopify API we offer pricing to […]

If you have not got used to the new M2 database of yet, why not Export Products in an CSV files then take a look at the new Magento 2 product structure. Exporting Products Data is not only for the purpose of helping you get a better understanding with the M2 database, It is also […]

Magento vs Shopify vs WordPress Each platform has its own strengths and over the past 10 years, you can advise on which is best suited for each client depending on their need and scalability. Shopify Platform Shopify is great for new eCommerce businesses looking to take a leap into online trading, it offers a flexible, easy-to-use system to get you […]

Having used UKFast for many years due to being local (Manchester) and recommended by a friend for hosting all our client WordPress & Magento websites before switching back to IONOS by 1&1. Lawrence Jones, which we never met when visiting the UKFast head office next to Asda in Manchester we are sad that this will […]

Looking to use custom Web fonts on your WordPress Themes? Some hosting providers restrict the upload of WOFF files to enable custom fonts. Here is a quick break down of how to enable this feature. WordPress includes an ALLOW_UNFILTERED_UPLOADS option that you can enable in your site’s wp-config.php file but its not set by default, […]

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Building a custom Widget in WordPress is a simple take if you understand the basics of the platform, where all the files are stored in on the server and a little bit about PHP. Let’s dive right in and locate your Functions.php file within your WordPress theme directory, this is the usual path. /wp-content/themes/my-theme-name – […]

How to get Child Pages of Parent in WordPress with Advanced Custom Fields In a recent white label website development, the client of a housing development company required a bespoke house listing and we love using ACF Pro for all our projects as we think it’s user-friendly for the customer in the back end. If […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Bakery Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Barber Shop Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Tattoo Website Templates – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building tattoo artists websites for small and large studios, we understand expectations and we deliver on time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Restaurant Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Portfolio Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Travel Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Wedding Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Music Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Conference Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for an Estate Agent Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Fitness Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

stepholt offers a bespoke build for a Dentist Website Template – Our design & development team will provide you will the essential files for installing on WordPress, Magento or a standalone HTML/CSS website. With over 10 years of building websites for small and large clients, we understand expectations and we deliver on time every time […]

The new wordpress gutenberg in version 5.0 sees the WYSIWYG editor replaced with Gutenberg and its upset the wide group of developers as its making things harder not easier. If you are struggling with the new version of wordpress and the Gutenberg editor then you need to download the Classic Editor where at present has […]

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Its easy with stepholt selling via eCommerce. With any start up business, finding the right designs to sell t-shirts online can be challenging, Making sure you have all the foundations in place before setting off on your new online venture. Here at stepholt, we specialise in generating eCommerce sales, advertising and social monetising. With over […]

WordPress is 14 years old However on May 27, 2018 WordPress will have been released 15 years, wow where has the time gone? Ingenious Bear get asked How Old is WordPress? How much experience do you have? We have used WordPress for over a decade and with the likes of Shopify, Wix and a host of new […]

  Website Trends for 2018 2018 web trends will consist of my new and old designs, which are going to be big, bold and beautiful but more importantly clean. With more users on Mobile devices than desktop, Designers and developers over the past few years have tried to keep mobile light for 3G / 4G […]

Change WordPress Permissions via the Shell over SSH This is a very simple execution via Termial on Mac or any other free SSH software for windows. Login to your server via SSH and enter the following commands to change your WordPress directory and file permissions. Typical is: command is USER@IP.ADDRESS followed by your password, you […]

Over the years we get asked the same question regarding who is better for my business in terms of a custom, full stack eCommerce solution…. Simple answer is us. With BearCommerce you have 2 options on signing up, you complete the website using our online ‘Drag & Drop’ website builder or we do all the […]

Best open source ecommerce software What is the best ecommerce software available online for 2017? If you know us then you understand what we do and what we specialise in. Magento & WooCommerce. However we can still design and develop the following eCommerce software just as good as the best. Actinic eCommerce Actinic has been around some […]

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Does your new iPhone 7 overheats as soon as it starts to play video, download files, or play music. It even heats up when taking photos? One of the team suddenly started experiencing a hot iphone 7 – it had been fine for months but just started over heating. the following information helped fix the issue […]

Clear Plesk Mail Queue via SSH Qmail or Roundcube One of the most asked questions regarding mail being stuck on the server is how to clean unwanted or spam emails from our client’s servers is to run the following via SSH – it’s a quick and easy script to keep your server running smooth. First lets check […]