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Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

It’s Time to Grow Up About IE

It’s Time to Grow Up About IE

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.

What Exactly Does WordPress Tell the World?

What Exactly Does WordPress Tell the World?

We have lots of corporate clients. They have important websites, sometimes with particular intellectual property and information that they’d rather not share with rivals. Consequently, knowing what information is being sent by the software underpinning your website is important. We knew that WordPress is chatty from previous articles such as Lynne Pope’s on WordPress Privacy, various discussions on WordPress support… continue reading

WordCamp Portsmouth 2011, A Business Case

WordCamp Portsmouth 2011, A Business Case

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be talking at WordCamp UK yet again!  The final details will be announced over at the official WordCamp UK site. In the meantime, a lot of times you hear the debate over whether or not it’s worth attending and speaking at this type of unconference.  They’re relatively casual affairs, full of quite geeky types… continue reading

Make WordPress Scale, on a Budget

Make WordPress Scale, on a Budget

If you create great content, your WordPress site is going to get a lot of traffic. That’s a good thing! One of our clients has done just that, but we had a couple of problems – he’s become popular in general, bringing in, on busy days, over 10,000 visitors, many of whom look around the site. And worse, he’s also… continue reading

WordPress 3.0 Multisite With Multiple Domains Setup

WordPress 3.0 Multisite With Multiple Domains Setup

WordPress 3.0 multisites lets you easily publish multiple sites, on multiple domains, within one installation.  This is a time-saving option for those of us who need to manage multiple separate domains running WordPress, but it does take a little knowledge and file access to set up, and at the moment isn’t for anyone who doesn’t consider themselves technically proficient. Editor’s… continue reading

WordPress Distributions are the Future

WordPress Distributions are the Future

If you’ve been involved in WordPress over the past few years you’ll have seen it change from being an excellent but limited blogging platform into something on which you can build much more complex websites.  We ourselves have been involved in some pretty sophisticated uses of the system – for example, over at Telecoms.com which makes extensive use of various… continue reading

Migrating a WordPress/WPMU/BuddyPress Website

Migrating a WordPress/WPMU/BuddyPress Website

Migrating a WordPress site can be something of a scary challenge, but we do it a lot, and we’ve become used to it. There are many good reasons to move a site – for example, you might set one up in a subfolder, and decide to move WP to the root. Or perhaps you’ve built a site on localhost and… continue reading

A Common-Sense WordPress Security Primer

A Common-Sense WordPress Security Primer

There’s been a big fuss lately over the latest WordPress hacks that have targetted older versions of WordPress. And in my view, they show the less pretty side of WordPress and some people in the community… but not all of them.  The attitude has been a straight “upgrade your blog and you’ll be secure.” Well, I have news for you. … continue reading

WordPress in News & Media Presentation

This is the presentation given by David Coveney at WordCamp UK 2009 in Cardiff. It covers the advantages, problems and implementations of WordPress as used by the News & Media sectors. If you need to view the slide notes (primarily for me, to be honest, but you may see some points that got cut during the presentation) you’ll have to… continue reading

We’re Presenting at WordCamp UK 2009

We’re Presenting at WordCamp UK 2009

Last year we decided to keep quiet at WordCamp UK, on the whole, beyond a spot of sponsorship – simply because we didn’t have that much to talk about that we felt could be exciting.  But a year has changed a lot – WordPress is becoming popular for large scale blogging platforms such as The Telegraph Blogs, and for use… continue reading