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Category Archives: wordpress
Planning for Councillors
A nice little project this, that we developed for our friends at NALC. It’s a site introducing some of the issues around planning, particularly aimed at parish councillors. We did the design and built the WordPress template, while the guys … Continue reading
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Some useful BuddyPress plugins
BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress that turns your site into a simple social network. It’s a remarkable thing, but I think it is fair to say that while it makes creating a social network easy, creating a good social … Continue reading
Learn WordPress.com
WordPress is a great bit of software, and by far the easiest way to get up and running with it is to use the usually free hosted version at WordPress.com. It’s even easier to get started than ever, with Learn … Continue reading
Look and feel
If you visit this site in a browser, rather than just getting the content via your RSS reader, you’ll notice it looks a bit different. I have reverted the site to the new default theme for WordPress whilst I figure … Continue reading
WordPress 2.9
Bit of a late one this, but WordPress 2.9 came out before Christmas. Well worth the upgrade – especially for the image handling stuff and the ease of embedding flash content like YouTube videos. More information in this video:
