Web Design, Wordpress and Hosting Services in Swindon

Have you recently updated WordPress and noticed your post area looks blank and the icons don’t display when you edit existing posts or pages?

Here is a solution to fix the white text on white background problem in WordPress that could improve performance too

11 good reasons to host your blog content on the same website as your business website rather than on independant blogging sites

According to Quantcast, the website audience measurement company, wordpress.com is now the 19th most popular site for US visitors. This is likely to improve further as more businesses start to realise that WordPress is a credible web development platform.

Wordpress is now being used to power 14.7% of the top 1 million websites in the World, and 22% of all new domain names active in the US are wordpress sites.

See the full ‘State of the Word’ address by Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg

WordPress saves copies of your content every time you update a page or a post, and auto-save revisions are taken while you are editing content too. These ‘revisions’ are then displayed towards the bottom of the page when you are viewing or editing your content, and can be used to compare changes between 2 different [...]

Have you discovered Google Web Fonts yet? This is a library of fonts, suitable for using on your website, that are available under an open source licence and stored on and accessed from google web servers. So they are fonts you don’t need to pay for! The possibilities for your website are great. There is [...]

What options are available for installing and running Wordpress? How do you choose between running it on the wordpress site, running it standalone on your computer and running it on your own (or a hosted) web server? What pre-installation checks should you do?

On several occasions WordPress posts that I schedule for release fail to publish at the chosen date and time – and sometimes fail to publish at all. I’m on WordPress 3.0 and I know that my wp-cron.php is working ok as I get no warning messages and other plugins on my site use it without [...]

I have been experimenting with the WordPress FlippingBook Gallery plugin recently as I think it could be useful to a few of my current and (hopefully) future clients. For those who aren’t aware of it, this plugin produces one of those cool effects that allow jpg and png files to be combined into an online [...]

However you blog, whether through WordPress or some other platform, if you accept comments you will have experienced that momentary high that comes when you realise your much loved, carefully-crafted post – the one that the World has long been waiting for – has attracted a mountain of comments. And why not? It’s a great [...]