If you’ve been involved in WordPress over the past few years you’ll have seen it change from being an excellent but limited blogging platform into something on which you can build much more complex websites. We ourselves have been involved in some pretty sophisticated uses of the system – for example, over at Telecoms.com which makes extensive use of various elements of WP functionality as well as having quite a lot of custom code bolted in. Read more
This is a real-life burglar... still easier to identify than a hacker, sadly. Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution Picture by Jofus.
There’s been a big fuss lately over the latest WordPress hacks that have targetted older versions of WordPress.
And in my view, they show the less pretty side of WordPress and some people in the community… but not all of them. The attitude has been a straight “upgrade your blog and you’ll be secure.”
Well, I have news for you. They’re wrong. Read more
This is the presentation given by David Coveney at WordCamp UK 2009 in Cardiff. It covers the advantages, problems and implementations of WordPress as used by the News & Media sectors.
If you need to view the slide notes (primarily for me, to be honest, but you may see some points that got cut during the presentation) you’ll have to visit the Slideshare site.
Be there to get the latest news and network with the leading lights of WordPress in the UK
Last year we decided to keep quiet at WordCamp UK, on the whole, beyond a spot of sponsorship – simply because we didn’t have that much to talk about that we felt could be exciting. But a year has changed a lot – WordPress is becoming popular for large scale blogging platforms such as The Telegraph Blogs, and for use as a news platform such as at Telecoms.com. Read more
On the night of June 23rd, Telegraph Media flicked the switch on a new project they’ve been working on this Spring – the Telegraph Blogs, relaunched on WordPress MU.
And, proudly, we’d like to say we had a little bit to do with the project. Not a lot, mind – we provided some consultancy, some code snippets, advice and developer support now and then. It’s the kind of project we’d have loved to have taken on in full, but the in-house team at the Telegraph were perfectly capable of doing the work and we always say that if you have the in-house skills then you shouldn’t spend a small fortune on external consultants and developers. Read more
David Coveney of WordPress Developers Interconnect IT is a big fan of motorsport and a member of Liverpool Motor Club. Although not directly involved in the website, he helps out where possible. Previously we supplied a blog based theme and this had proven to be a huge success for the website. Lately, however, more was wanted – the ability to target visitors with a home page along with a fresher, more businesslike appearance. Read more
You know that over-clocking experiment?
We had an interesting failure recently. The server for one of our larger clients, who have their own high-spec dedicated server arranged, went down. We got the alert by text, and swung into action.
Well, more accurately we had called the hosting providers and told them to fix it.
They gave no solid reason or explanation as to why the server had died, but within in an hour things were normal enough.
Or so we thought…
Very quietly we’ve been building something quite special for WordPress. Let’s just say that we’re not the first with the concept, nor, I’m sure, the last. But it’s going to be about the most professional set-up. And we’ve done almost all of it with WordPress based technology.
What is it, exactly?
Well, just at this moment, we’re not saying. There’s been hints out there, and it’s not a huge secret, but we’re not ready to make any big announcements just yet. Look out for clues in our forum posts around the place, and in some of our work.
Really I had to post simply to explain why we’ve posted nothing on the blog for over a month. There’s been that internal project, but also some very interesting projects for clients. All of which has conspired to keep us with our noses on the grindstone. Soon we’ll look up and return to normal. Maybe.
It’s quite apt that on the day that WordPress.com appears to have broken (it’s not serving any front-end pages on this blog at the time of writing if you’re logged in) I’m making a post about hosting.
So to the gist of this post.
We provide hosting to clients, and only clients. You can’t just ring us up and ask us to host your site. We’re quite picky about what hits our server. Read more
