Wordpress is a great blogging application it’s also a very capable platform for building full blown websites not just blogs.  But, by nature of the fact that Wordpress is a blogging application there are some things you need to be aware of. They’re not pitfalls, but things that might catch you out - like they [...]

If you use the Wordpress Log In link in your wordpress theme, one thing that is probably worth doing is modifying your wp_loginout function to add rel=”noindex,nofollow” as per the example below. It’s a very straightforward tweak.
We’re led to believe “nofollow” will prevent page rank being passed to the linked pages, the aim being to prevent [...]

After a recent headache getting email to fire on Wordpress whilst hosting it on Fasthosts it occurred to me that a “test email” function should be part of the Wordpress administration interface.
Many CMS solutions do have this, Dotnetnuke is the first that springs to mind. The ability to test and retest email settings via a [...]

If you host Wordpress on Fasthosts you might have some extra work to do to make sure your Wordpress installation can send new user and comment notification emails.  Fasthosts require you to take a couple of extra steps in your scripts in order to validate and send your email - this is to help prevent [...]

I was asked to get the products to display in an order the client determined, but couldn’t find a mechanism within the wp e-commerce plugin administration panel to do this. A trawl through the database tables indicated that a product_order table existed, but wasn’t being used. I expect this is work in progress, or reserved for one [...]

Choosing a content management system for your website makes commercial sense; you can update the website yourself, add new pages, delete pages, and basically take the website in the direction you want, without having to call your web designer and ask for the updates to be made.  Like writing a letter, you get lots of [...]

We’ve recently rolled out a new website for Coombe Fisheries. Fully standards compliant, it utilises the open source content management system, Wordpress, which although most widely known for its Blog applications, is a remarkably flexible CMS with the API, documentation and 3rd party plugins to support full blown websites.

I’ve decided that our new website should also be built around the excellent CMS Wordpress, since it’ll be a great learning curve, and although its roots are a blogging application, it’s supposed to be capable of supporting full blown websites.
I set about Wordpress over the weekend, starting the theme for our site. I have to [...]