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

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

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

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

How’s about a WordPress treat for Christmas? In the spirit of good will, peace to all men and in the spirit of community sharing we have decided to run a mini site dedicated to WordPress snippets and what better way to do so than with a Christmas Advent Calendar using a WordPress installation. All the snippets … 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/

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

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

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

Hey folks, quick WordPress security tip for users. If you run a WordPress website be careful not to use ‘admin’ as your username and Do Not use a common word as your password. Hackers can run a dictionary script and gain access to your site within seconds and that’s a bad thing! All sorts of nasty … read more

WordPress is currently the most popular publishing platform in the world with over 60 million people choosing to use it! The question is ‘why is it so popular..?’ The answer is not that difficult … because, it’s so easy to use you could teach your granny to use it! In-fact your granny could download it and … read more