Following on from our initial announcement, I’m happy to announce we have a new version! We’ve listened to feedback and made many improvements. We’re also making expanding the closed beta! One of the points mentioned in feedback was the potential for extending the plugin, examples including Google Analytics traffic widgets on the overview page etc. The second iteration now comes with… continue reading ⇢
The Auditor (name to be finalised) is a plugin that comes in two parts – an event logger that tracks key options and content changes within your WP install, and a viewer that lets you view what’s been happening on your site.
BigSWIG wasn’t a big idea we had one night, but simply an evolution of our usual SWIG events. A bigger venue, beer on-tap, a PA system, a big screen, and four awesome speakers! No, not loudspeakers, but actual people, talking about all things web, WordPress and design related. In the end there were very nearly 40 people at our first… continue reading ⇢
You may have heard by now that we recently launched a new website for the Plaza Community Cinema in Waterloo near Liverpool. We try to fit one charity project in a year at interconnect/it to give ourselves a challenge that wouldn’t normally come up. I should come clean that part of the reason for doing this project is that we were… continue reading ⇢
One thing that many non-clients fail to appreciate about our work here is that it’s not just about pretty front ends. We believe in streamlining your workflow so that when you need to keep your content up to date it’s as quick and easy as possible. We’re currently building a site for the Plaza Cinema in Crosby, Liverpool which makes… continue reading ⇢
Sometimes, it’s not just what you’re selling, but how you’re selling it that really matters. Way back in 2008, we decided to launch a WordPress themes club called Spectacu.la. We had a couple of nice blogging themes that had been targeted for a marketplace, but as that marketplace got canned we found we had nowhere to sell them. We figured… continue reading ⇢
Imagine that you’re building a theme, and in various places in that theme you have small elements that you’d just love to content manage. It could be items in a footer, in the header, or for use as widgets. Things like a copyright notice, a credit line, some free form spaces and so on. In the past, coding for this… continue reading ⇢
We recently developed a new site for the Foundation Trust Governor’s Association (or simply FTGA) which allowed for an easy self-hosted and self-managed yet sophisticated website. Social Structure The site uses bbPress and ties together a number of custom functions. We’ll be following up with a full write-up in due course for our Portfolio, but for now, why not take… continue reading ⇢
On the 5th August, it will be my last day at Interconnect/IT before I disappear to have my little bundle of crying and pooping joy. This blog post has been written with the purpose of both introducing myself (even if it only to say goodbye for now!) but to also show my appreciation of the great people here at Interconnect… continue reading ⇢
Informa Telecoms & Media are a large and growing division within Informa, the publishing and events giant. Since the launch of the interconnect/it developed Telecoms.com, they have increasingly used WordPress to deliver business critical websites.
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