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Designing The Plaza

Designing The Plaza

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

bigSWIG

bigSWIG

The Liverpool WordPress Interest Group invites you to an evening of learning and networking at Leaf on Bold Street. Event Registration Online for bigSWIG Tuesday 24th January @ 6.30 SWIG started off as a purely WordPress based community group meeting at the interconnect/it offices.  It’s clearly become something more than just that and is of interest to anybody who works and… continue reading

SWIGmas – 15th December Special

SWIGmas – 15th December Special

SWIGmas is the end of year get together for all SWIGgers – we’ll relax a little, have a drink, and watch some entertaining and thoughtful videos on a range of web and design related subjects. Nothing too heavy, and we’re not planning on anyone giving a talk as we know how hard it is to prepare in the run-up to… continue reading

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 24th November

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 24th November

In the run up to SWIGmas we’ve got a great event on this month. We have 2 talks from regulars Matt Pealing and Anthony Casey covering the modern web design techniques and how WordPress can be applied to very specific content management jobs so it promises to be much more interesting than listening to me prattle on! Next month’s event… continue reading

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 27th October 2011

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 27th October 2011

Good grief, is it late October already? How did that happen? What it means, of course, is that it’s SWIG time soon! In less than a week. So you’d better get booked in quickly, and we’ll look forward to seeing you there!

Spots for WordPress Developer Notes

Spots for WordPress Developer Notes

Our Spots for WordPress plugin is designed to make your content management life with WP even easier. Although there are developer notes on the WordPress.org repository, we’ve decided to maintain a page here where we can possibly show a broader range of information in the future, depending on the take-up of the plugin. Template tags Spots provides 2 template tags… continue reading

How You Sell Matters – Our Story

How You Sell Matters – Our Story

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

Announcing Spots

Announcing Spots

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

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 25th August 2011

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 25th August 2011

Heck – again, a little note from me about how quickly these events come around. But they’re great – we all enjoy them. This month we have the excellent local designer Edward Ridding coming to talk about design. There’s also the usual Q&A and technical assistance to hand, as well as a wide range of WordPress developers and know it… continue reading

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 28th July 2011

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 28th July 2011

Amazing how quickly these things come around. Consequently, apologies for the late announcement of this event’s agenda and ticketing. Must try harder for next month, but it’s been very hectic. This month we can look forward to Lydia Bates and her talk on writing for the web, as well as the usual Q&A, show and tell and pub trip. You… continue reading