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 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 ⇢
You know sometimes you have a site requirement and the needs simply aren’t that easily met? Well, this was one of those – there were several primary requirements, but the biggest was to be able to easily display a wide number of healthy living events across the borough in a way that would be easily understood by the general public… continue reading ⇢
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 ⇢
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’ve had a pretty busy few months here at interconnect/it and, as a consequence, we’ve failed to tell the world about a large number of website’s we’ve built recently.
Here’s one we built earlier. Hope you like it.
SWIG is great! SWIG is ace! Swig is every fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm. We talk about WordPress. A lot.
WordPress has a habit of storing serialized PHP data in the database. This is fine if you’re working in PHP, but when you migrate a website from one domain to another it’s very easy to affect strings and corrupt this data. This search & replace tool can help you to make changes without inadvertently affecting settings such as widgets which could leave you with a very broken and time consuming migration.
We had an interesting one today. The LinkedIn WordPress application is a widget that allows you to have your latest WordPress posts on your site. The references within it all relate to WordPress.com – however, I knew it worked full well with self-hosted WordPress.org sites as well as I use the application. So I was a bit bemused when a… continue reading ⇢
Using WordPress in enterprises with old browsers installed can be problematic. Developers whinge about it (and should stop) and staff struggle with it. Well, there’s an answer to both that may surprise you.
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