Tag Archives: Wordpress

Sweet-Apple wins new website development for Bristol Copywriters

Posted on November 3, 2010

We were recently appointed to redevelop the website of top copywriting agency S!M. Based in Bristol, they specialise in editorial for the Men’s market. We got Indesign files, fonts and a smattering of images and turned the job around in … Continue reading →

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Faster web development with Textmate

Posted on October 29, 2010

When you’re a freelance web developer it’s important to be able to work quickly and accurately. If you’re working to a fixed price quote there’s a great motivation to get work done as efficiently as possible. Because of this I’m … Continue reading →

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WordPress site developed for Bath publisher

Posted on October 5, 2010

We’ve recently been working for Spaced, a design and publishing agency near Bath, doing the web development for their latest project. They’re publishing a graphic novel, Yuri’s Day : The Road to the Stars to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri … Continue reading →

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SQL query to automate switching WordPress from a development to a live server

Posted on October 1, 2010

One of the more tedious things about WordPress is the way that it hardcodes complete fully qualified urls into the database, which makes quickly switching from a development server to a live server an irritation. It only takes a few … Continue reading →

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Where to get help when WordPress gets hacked or you can’t edit content

Posted on September 27, 2010

I’ve just got off the phone from a customer in Bath who’s suddenly become unable to edit their WordPress powered website and found my details via Google (it’s nice to know when some of your Search Engine Optimisation goals are … Continue reading →

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WordPress security basics

Posted on August 16, 2010

I’ve just had an interesting little chat with a Web Designer based in Bradford on Avon about WordPress security. Due to valid concerns about the updates breaking his clients’ WordPress sites, he’s been advising them not to install the updates … Continue reading →

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Finally – the death of PHP4…

Posted on August 6, 2010

Wordpress 3.2 will only be supported on servers running PHP 5.2 What does this mean for the evolution of PHP as a language? Continue reading →

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Avoiding comment spam in WordPress

Posted on July 16, 2010

By default, WordPress is set to approve comments automatically from people who have previously had a comment approved. Ever wondered why seemingly random people leave comments on your blog saying things like “Hi, I found your blog really interesting”? There … Continue reading →

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Website redesign complete (at last)…

Posted on July 3, 2010

After using the same design for 5 years, we’ve finally got round to redesigning our website. The old site served us very well, generated a nice steady stream of traffic through organic listings on Google and was well liked; but … Continue reading →

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