The Peak Digital blog
Blog
Practical writing on web design, digital marketing, and SEO. No vanity metrics.
-
15/10/2026
Shopify Can Now Write and Update Your Store Policies
Shopify now builds returns, shipping, terms and contact policies from your settings and keeps them updated. What it fills in and what UK stores…
-
12/10/2026
Shopify's Shop Now Syncs Carts and Browsing Across Devices
Shop now recognises shoppers before checkout, syncs carts across devices and sends cart reminders, on by default. What UK Shopify stores should check.
-
12/10/2026
Wedding Venue Marketing: How UK Venues Fill Their Wedding Diary
Wedding venue marketing for UK venues: when couples search, which directory listings earn their renewal, and how to turn enquiries into booked viewings.
-
09/10/2026
Shopify Adds Return Window Overrides for Products
Shopify now lets stores set return windows by collection, product or variant. How overrides work and the UK 14-day cancellation rules to check first.
-
08/10/2026
WooCommerce 11.2: Security Fixes and Withdrawal Emails
WooCommerce 11.2 brings security fixes, barcode matching in CSV imports and withdrawal emails. What changed, what to test and what UK stores should do.
-
07/10/2026
WordPress 7.1.3 Patches Seven Security Flaws
WordPress 7.1.3 fixes seven security flaws, including a Comments screen XSS and leaked comments on private posts. What changed and what UK sites should…
-
05/10/2026
Shopify Rollouts Now Schedule and Test Discounts
Shopify Rollouts now take discounts: test an offer on part of your traffic before Black Friday. What changed, which apps miss it and the…
-
05/10/2026
llms.txt Explained: What 30 Days of Server Logs Reveal About AI Crawlers
llms.txt explained for UK small businesses: what the file does, what 30 days of our server logs show about AI crawlers, and the robots.txt…
-
02/10/2026
Shopify Canvas: New Store Designer Built on Sidekick
Shopify Canvas lets you design a store with Sidekick. What it does, its launch gaps (Markets, translations, app blocks) and what UK stores should…
-
30/09/2026
Shopify Category Metafields Now Work in Analytics
Shopify Analytics can now report sales by category metafields such as colour, material and size, and by metaobject fields. What UK merchants should check.
-
28/09/2026
How to Get Your Brand Mentioned in ChatGPT and Perplexity
A practical guide to how to get your brand mentioned in ChatGPT and Perplexity: where AI answers come from, which sources to work on,…
-
27/09/2026
WooCommerce 11.1.2: Review Moderation and Gallery Fixes
WooCommerce 11.1.2 brings Review Order submissions under comment moderation and fixes a variation gallery loop that crashed category pages.
-
25/09/2026
Search Console Adds Multimodal Search Reporting
Search Console now reports traffic from Google Lens, Circle to Search and image uploads. What the new multimodal filter shows and what UK sites…
-
23/09/2026
WordPress 7.1.2 Fixes a Critical Remote Code Execution Flaw
WordPress 7.1.2 fixes a critical unauthenticated flaw that can lead to remote code execution. Which sites are exposed and what UK agencies should check.
-
23/09/2026
Shopify Changes How It Counts Sessions in Analytics
Shopify rebaselined sessions and conversion rate in Analytics on 21 September 2026. What changed, and what UK merchants should do about reporting.
-
21/09/2026
AI Citation Tracking: What the Tools Can and Cannot See
AI citation tracking promises to show when ChatGPT and Google cite your site. Here is what the tools really measure, what they structurally miss,…
-
20/09/2026
Cinema Advertising in the UK: Costs, Ad Lengths and How to Buy
What cinema advertising costs in the UK, how long cinema ads really are, who sells the inventory and how to measure a campaign that…
-
20/09/2026
WooCommerce 11.1.1: Security and Mini-Cart Fixes
WooCommerce 11.1.1 is a security release: stricter REST API key checks, session validation fixes and a Mini-Cart styling bug cleared. What UK stores do.
-
19/09/2026
WordPress 7.1.1 Patches 11 Security Flaws
WordPress 7.1.1 fixes 11 security flaws plus 17 core bugs, and core advises updating now. What UK site owners and agencies should check.
-
16/09/2026
Shopify Adds WhatsApp Consent at Checkout
Shopify WhatsApp consent can now be collected at checkout. What the change covers, and what UK PECR rules mean for your opt-in wording.
-
16/09/2026
Shopify Adds Meta as an AI Channel, On by Default
Meta is now an AI channel in the Shopify admin and products are shared by default through Shopify Catalog. What UK merchants should check.