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How to manage multiple WordPress installations?

Elliott Richmond — Sat, 18 May 2013 10:08:25 +0000

WordPress needs upgrading because a bug has been fixed or some new features have been release oh, and there’s that favourite plugin you use and you’ve installed it across multiple sites but you can’t actually remember which site it’s on…? Can you imagine having to log in to over 100 sites just to upgrade a ... read more

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Looking for the perfect responsive css framework…

Elliott Richmond — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:42:59 +0000

… believe it or not I’m thinking that Square One is looking a little tired and could do with a refresh so I started looking for the perfect responsive css framework. Bootstrap was the first, coincidentally a web project that was recently handed over to me was using the same framework so it was a ... read more

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Guess who got a mention on WPCandy

Elliott Richmond — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:27:52 +0000

Well, as you may or may not know WP Snippets til Christmas will start rolling out snippets as of the 1st of December. I asked Brad on twitter if he’d like to submit a snippet and in the true nature of open source and sharing his knowledge of WordPress he gladly agreed so, just before ... read more

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Open Source vs Proprietary Software

Elliott Richmond — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:48:31 +0000

After a recent hot drama on a well know social network about Open Source vs Proprietary software, I felt inspired to write this. The drama was about websites and content management and the key tone that came across was that there are two approaches to this – Open Source Software (OSS) or Closed Source (also known ... read more

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Is WordPress just a blogging platform or can web designers do more?

Elliott Richmond — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:06:51 +0000

Is WordPress just a blogging platform? Originally, yes! Actually it’s a very powerful publishing platform. Combined with good web design and good content it can be any type of website. Social, e-commerce, resources or a very powerful content management system. A non-public installation of WordPress could even be used as a very powerful CRM system ... read more

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Do you sell online?

Elliott Richmond — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:04:19 +0000

With more and more businesses deciding to sell online it’s really important to get your shop right. So many online shops fail because the basics are not quite right! Big brands get it right for many different reasons but, mainly because of their already well established brand recognition. That’s not to say that everyone else ... read more

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When WordPress was hacked…

Elliott Richmond — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:31:00 +0000

After helping Nissanka via twitter on a little website issue when WordPress was hacked, here’s what he had to say about me on Linkedin… “Elliot was able to resolve many issues that i had with my website. He was knowledgeable and able to provide me quick solutions. He was clear in his communication and i ... read more

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Developing a WordPress site on a live url

Elliott Richmond — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:16:09 +0000

There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some point and sync the database. Although very achievable it can be a pain in the proverbial, especially ... read more

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What you really should know about WordPress

Elliott Richmond — Sun, 13 May 2012 19:16:53 +0000

WordPress can be a cost effective solution for small businesses with the famous 5 minute install, all the freely available and reasonably priced premium themes on the market. Premium themes are certainly cheap and are usually designed to do a particular job – being designed specifically to service a Magazine style, Food Recipe or Design Portfolio style web site. Usually these ... read more

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One way to counteract Google’s Panda

Elliott Richmond — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:37:31 +0000

Everyone should know about Google’s Panda updates by now. They’ve been rolling out periodically for the last 12 months or more. For a majority of websites the number 1 priority is to get indexed regularly and get good ranking in Google’s search engine results. Did you know that if your website is on a shared ... read more

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