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An online notebook
WordCamps are fairly unorganised events for lovers of the best blogging platform, like, eva: WordPress. The first one in the UK is taking place in Birmingham next month, and it’s going to be great. Get a ticket here. Even better…
I’ve noticed that quite a few folk who have installed their own version of WordPress (as opposed to those that use WordPress.com) haven’t got round to making the URLs (the bit that appears in the address bar of a browser)…
David Wilcox pointed me in the direction of the latest E-Government newsletter from Headstar, and their article about ICELE’s slow and rather painful death: In the medium term, the government is considering an overhaul of e-democracy policy which could bring…
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…
…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…
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…
lgSHOUT! is another little service I have put together for local government, following on from LGSearch, which went a little way to fixing the problem of getting relevant search results. lgSHOUT! tries to do something about communication. The idea behind…
It was interesting to see the results of the little poll I have been running in my sidebar recently regarding how people read posts on this blog. Out of the 25 votes cast, only four people responded that they read…
This looks very exciting. Thanks to Nick for the tip off. Edit: More via TechCrunch: It is easy to dismiss this as completely unnecessary given the abundance of social networks already out there, as well as application development platforms like…
WordPress is the best, we all know this. As well as the amazing free themes that are available, there are also tonnes of plugins which make your blog do interesting and cool stuff that it can’t do out of the…
Every day, WordPress and the community around it manages to surprise and delight me more. I have mentioned how it can be used to consult before, specifically by using the amazing CommentPress theme. But you can also create small polls…
Simon Dickson points to a new theme that turns WordPress into a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool. This confirms to me something that I have been thinking for a while that WordPress is no longer a blogging system, nor a…
I have been wanting to give this blog a redesign almost ever since I started it. For some reason I just haven’t taken to the Mandigo theme I was using – a bit dark, maybe? I do think that darker…
Thanks to Simon Dickson, the Welsh Wales Office website has had a real facelift. It looks really good, nice and clean layout and a smart news layout. Simon covers it all in more detail on his blog. And the best…
Matt Mullenweg has announced over on the WordPress.com blog that Automattic, the company behind WP.com, Akismet and the driving force behind WordPress development, have created a new theme for WordPress. Whoopie-do, you might be thinking. But this theme is more…
One of the many reasons why WordPress is such a super publishing platform are the many themes which are freely available to give your site a professional look and feel. 1. Envy – WPDesigner.com Envy is a bold and bright…
Neville Hobson reports on the new site for BA’s new airline. And guess what? It’s running on WordPress. More and more, public bodies and corporations are moving towards WordPress as a lightweight, flexible and powerful way of establishing a social…
WordPress never fails to astound me with its brilliance. I still haven’t finished putting this blog together properly yet, but today thought I ought to at least cobble together a mini blogroll of some of my favourite fellow bloggers. I’d…
Simon Dickson muses on the advantages of using open source platforms, as opposed to proprietary ones, in the light of the Interesource debacle. It’s funny. Not so long ago, the question was ‘why should I be using open source?’ Increasingly,…
Quick presentation on improving a WordPress blog from Mark Jaquith: [slideshare 158924 amping-up-your-wordpress-blog-1194474703187376-3]