Well, as you may or may not know WP Snippets til Christmas will start rolling out snippets as of the 1st of December. I asked Brad on twitter if he’d like to submit a snippet and in the true nature of open source and sharing his knowledge of WordPress he gladly agreed so, just before […]
How’s about a WordPress treat for Christmas? In the spirit of good will, peace to all men and in the spirit of community sharing we have decided to run a mini site dedicated to WordPress snippets and what better way to do so than with a Christmas Advent Calendar using a WordPress installation. All the snippets […]
Bloggers be aware that today at about 4pm BST there will be some downtime for wordpress users. WordPress.org will be going down for maintenance – physical servers will be moved and a notification will be make once the migration is complete, read more at http://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/10/23/wordpress-org-will-be-undergoing-some-maintenance-starting/
Matt Cutts announces Google’s new Disavow links in Webmaster Tools. This has been a little hot drama and has been a long time coming for some SEO’s in the industry. This tool will allow webmasters to have more control over poor links back to their site, links that might have a negative effect on your sites SEO. […]
I found out today that the WordPress 3.5 release date will be 5th December with some sweet improvements to the Media Library, including the ability to attach images to posts via the Media Library it’s self rather than having to re-upload individual images – now thats going to be handy! Haven’t actually installed the beta […]
After a recent hot drama on a well know social network about Open Source vs Proprietary software, I felt inspired to write this. The drama was about websites and content management and the key tone that came across was that there are two approaches to this – Open Source Software (OSS) or Closed Source (also known […]
Is WordPress just a blogging platform? Originally, yes! Actually it’s a very powerful publishing platform. Combined with good web design and good content it can be any type of website. Social, e-commerce, resources or a very powerful content management system. A non-public installation of WordPress could even be used as a very powerful CRM system […]
BPay is a one stop shop for paying all your bills in Australia, they ran a competition to find the Worlds Biggest Most Awesome Waste of Time!. This is what to do with some milk crates and a few hours in a day…. probably more! Look out for the crate dragon at the end!
I have mixed opinions about this, should you design for mobile first or desktop? I understand the pro’s for mobile first but it’s got it’s pitfalls too in my opinion. I would be interested in your views too so please leave your comments below. So, if we decide we’re going straight in to the browser […]
Hey folks, quick WordPress security tip for users. If you run a WordPress website be careful not to use ‘admin’ as your username and Do Not use a common word as your password. Hackers can run a dictionary script and gain access to your site within seconds and that’s a bad thing! All sorts of nasty […]
