Category WordPress

Reflections on WordCampUK

I am typing most of this on the train back from Birmingham, where I have been attending WordCampUK, a two day conference on all things to do with the greatest online publishing platform, like, ever. It was great to meet…

Simon Dickson at WordCampUK

Quick notes on Simon Dickson‘s presentation at WordCampUK: Make big change happen in a small way Didn’t intend to be a WP fanboy, but it just turned out to be the best way of doing things Need for a WP…

SEO for WordPress

Here’s some notes from the session at WordCampUK on SEO for WordPress, presented by Nick Garner of Betfair. Will tidy up later with more links and stuff. you can’t hold your website users’ hands the whole time. SEO can make…

WordPress 2.6 out now

The WordPress development blog has announced the release of a new version of the world’s best blogging software. Some of the big improvements include: the ability to compare versions of posts, wiki-style, tracking who changed what – great for multi-user…

Local stuff

I always like reading Andrew Brown‘s roundups of stuff that’s happening in his area – Lewisham – that he regularly posts to his blog. I haven’t the discipline to do anything regularly, but here are a couple of things I’ve…

Upgrading…

…this blog to WordPress 2.5. Possible weirdness ahead! Update: upgrade went fine, with the exception that my theme got overwritten, and my backup wasn’t complete. Hence why you might be looking at the boring old default theme. Am on the…

WordPress 2.5

Went live for download over the weekend. Will be having a look at it over the next day or so. Looks a great release, with some much needed improvements, including: Improved admin dashboard, which can now include widgets Multi-file uploads…

How to paste stuff into WordPress

Most people have WordPress’ rich text editor turned on, because generally speaking, it makes life a lot easier. It does have its problems though – one is when embedding media from places like YouTube and SlideShare and the other is…