It seems a bit lame to announce a soft launch of a website especially when it’s your own but hey, I’m pretty stoked about getting it out there. There are a few bits that need to be polished off, but for the most part its functional and the minor details are probably only apparent to … read more

It’s a bit of a shock to hear that Google Reader will be retired in June 2013, how will we keep up to date with all the news from niche areas of the internet?! Why are they doing this? It turns out that the usage has been in decline since it’s launch in 2005… not … read more

Some 20 days ago Adrian Malpass, founder of the Glosbiz™ movement and local deejay, met with John Hanna the General Manager at Ellenborough Park to explore the possibility of hosting a charity event. Ellenborough Park is a restored 5 star Country House Hotel situated on the original Cheltenham Racecourse estate and is the perfect rural venue … read more

Just what we’ve been waiting for, 3.5 was a major upgrade and undoubtably had some issues. With the WordPress 3.5.1 bug fixes some of the preliminary issues will have been ironed out. Now is the time to start rolling out some official updates for our own clients. You can read more about the issues here.

I do enjoy looking at these infographics. “A new Infographic on WordPress and Joomla” I hear you say, well yes of course, stats change and opinons change that’s why these visual graphics are good to look at from time to time. There have been a few of these over the years and it’s about time … read more

We would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and prosperous future.

Well the WordPress 3.5 update has not been release yet but, the new Media Uploader looks really sweet! You can try it for yourself download the release candidate here. The whole interface has change very much for the better in my opinion, it’s intuitive and the design is a lot slicker than the old clunky upload/insert link … read more

Bloggers be aware that today at about 4pm BST there will be some downtime for wordpress users. WordPress.org will be going down for maintenance – physical servers will be moved and a notification will be make once the migration is complete, read more at http://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/10/23/wordpress-org-will-be-undergoing-some-maintenance-starting/

Matt Cutts announces Google’s new Disavow links in Webmaster Tools. This has been a little hot drama and has been a long time coming for some SEO’s in the industry. This tool will allow webmasters to have more control over poor links back to their site, links that might have a negative effect on your sites SEO. … read more

I found out today that the WordPress 3.5 release date will be 5th December with some sweet improvements to the Media Library, including the ability to attach images to posts via the Media Library it’s self rather than having to re-upload individual images – now thats going to be handy! Haven’t actually installed the beta … read more

With the advent of the new twitter embedding feature for WordPress, here are a few of my favoured tweets over the past few weeks… http://twitter.com/edgeitsupport/statuses/204600468398284801 http://twitter.com/nikkiwriter/statuses/196921824590831616 http://twitter.com/nikkiwriter/statuses/195597958127947776 http://twitter.com/kevwiles/statuses/175516157112094720 http://twitter.com/kevwiles/statuses/173054643100848131 http://twitter.com/poburke/statuses/171917856060096512  

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 https://twitter.com/elliottrichmond/statuses/213159031144071169