Month: January 2017

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Download option for Office 365 administrators

Chris O'Brien January 28, 2017 0 Comments
Office 2016 is the recommended version of Office 365 ProPlus and includes all the latest upgrades and new features. As we announced in September 2015, when we released Office 2016, beginning March 1, 2017, the Office 2013 version of Office 365 ProPlus will no longer be available for installation from the Office 365 portal. How does this affect me? Beginning March 1, 2017, your users will no...
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Powerful Search

  Now, where will you find your article in a repository of thousands of articles? Don't worry, Our search engine searches to thousands of articles within seconds and prioritises results based on contextual weightage. Content prioritization and weightage: Priority and weightage are given to content appearing in different places like title, post content ( exact position in post content ),...
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Publishing Capabilities

Are you worried about bad contents in your article? Do you not want everyone to publish the article? Do you want to set different capabilities for different users not allowing everyone to publish or approve the article? It's as Simple as ABC with Helpie. Just go to dashboard -> Helpdesk -> Helpie settings -> Core -> Publishing. Publishing: You can now assign capabilities to any user...
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Internet Explorer, no longer a “current” browser as Microsoft cuts off support

Chris O'Brien January 17, 2017 0 Comments
Following Microsoft withdrawing support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 at the start of 2016 and switching to a "security only" update model for Internet Explorer 11 (with no functionality issues being considered for fixes if the issue had already been resolved in Microsoft Edge) we are calling time on Internet Explorer as a "current" browser. With support from Microsoft for their Internet...
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CMS update notifications for our customers

Chris O'Brien January 16, 2017 0 Comments
If you host your WordPress or Drupal website with O'Brien Media we provide an enhanced CMS software reminder service. In addition to the built-in reminder options in WordPress and Drupal we will send you a notification email (and letter if your Drupal and WordPress version is very out of date) using the contact details we have on record for your account with O'Brien Media. Starting from...
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WordPress: Display a message or other text in a page or post only to logged in users

Jenny O'Brien January 14, 2017 0 Comments
You can use this to post advice or reminders to logged in users when they need to perform different tasks. All you have to do is add the following anywhere in your theme you want to display the message. ​ Create a shortcode to detect logged in users To turn this into a shortcode so you can use it in your posts you can just use the below snippet add this into your functions.php page. To use...
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