WordPress is currently the most popular publishing platform in the world with over 60 million people choosing to use it! The question is ‘why is it so popular..?’ The answer is not that difficult … because, it’s so easy to use you could teach your granny to use it! In-fact your granny could download it and […]
After helping Nissanka via twitter on a little website issue when WordPress was hacked, here’s what he had to say about me on Linkedin… “Elliot was able to resolve many issues that i had with my website. He was knowledgeable and able to provide me quick solutions. He was clear in his communication and i […]
With the advent of the new twitter embedding feature for WordPress, here are a few of my favoured tweets over the past few weeks… Big thanks to @elliottrichmond for helping us with some tricky coding issues! #coding #wordpress #webdesign — Edge IT (@edgeitsupport) May 21, 2012 @elliottrichmond Just to say a huge thanks for all […]
This is the new twitter embedding for WordPress, just copy n paste the twitter permalink reference and away you go, Sweet! This is a great way of collecting an archive of tweets relative to a post 😉 The new live preview in #wordpress 3.4 is s-w-e-e-t! — 🇺🇦 Ξll 🇬🇧 (@elliottrichmond) June 14, 2012
There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some point and sync the database. Although very achievable it can be a pain in the proverbial, especially […]
WordPress can be a cost effective solution for small businesses with the famous 5 minute install, all the freely available and reasonably priced premium themes on the market. Premium themes are certainly cheap and are usually designed to do a particular job – being designed specifically to service a Magazine style, Food Recipe or Design Portfolio style web site. Usually these […]
If you are familiar with this website you will know that the Facebook ‘Comments Box’ plugin was enabled on here. The plugin can be beneficial to brand awareness due to the viral nature of Facebook by getting into users’ news feeds. However there are drawbacks, the content goes on Facebook and stays there, the plugin just […]
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No website is 100% secure if the hacker wants to gain access to the server lets face it with brute force its possible however with a little WordPress hacking protection we can do things to reduce the intrusion. As you may or may not already know from my previous post Security with WordPress config you […]
Security with WordPress can be something of an issue amongst web developers and to be honest I’ve learnt the hard way. After having several sites hacked a few years ago I made it somewhat of a mission to safeguard against issues like this happening again. I’m going to keep these posts short and sweet to […]
