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Free introduction to WordPress e-course, delivered straight to your inbox

Chris O'Brien May 16, 2017 0 Comments
Do you use WordPress? If so we've got a free WordPress e-course, with easy to follow video tutorials, that cover common site management tasks that you might be interested in joining. We developed this 7 lesson course for our website design customers, to familiarise them with the basics of WordPress. Our WordPress customers loved it so much we thought we'd make it available to newsletter...
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Time for an update – WordPress 4.7.4 released

Chris O'Brien April 20, 2017 0 Comments
This release contains 47 maintenance fixes and enhancements, chief among them a fix has been provided to address an incompatibility between the upcoming Chrome version and the visual editor, inconsistencies in media handling, and further improvements to the REST API. For a full list of changes, consult the release notes and the list of changes over on the WordPress website....
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Immediate update advised as WordPress patches six security vulnerabilities in 4.7.3

Chris O'Brien March 08, 2017 0 Comments
WordPress 4.7.3 is now available with patches for six security vulnerabilities that affect version 4.7.2 and all previous versions. WordPress.org is strongly encouraging users to update their sites immediately. The release includes fixes for three cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that affect media file metadata, video URLs in YouTube embeds, and taxonomy term names. It also includes...
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WordPress: Display a message or other text in a page or post only to logged in users

Jenny Howell 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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Keep your plugins and themes up to date

Chris O'Brien August 29, 2016 0 Comments
A question we get frequently from clients (and prospective clients) is “Do I need to install updates for WordPress, plugins, and my theme?” The answer is an unwavering  “Yes!“, and it’s because updates do the following: Increase the security of your website Fix bugs that could cause unintended behaviour of your website Add features and functionality to your site Web...
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Upgrade today: WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” now available

Chris O'Brien August 18, 2016 0 Comments
The latest version of WordPress, version 4.6 (named “Pepper” in honor of jazz saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III), is now available to download via the WordPress website at wordpress.org. There are some exciting new features in WordPress 4.6 to help you to focus on the important parts of running your website along with enhancements to simplify some of the the...
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Upgrade your Drupal and WordPress sites now!

Chris O'Brien August 12, 2014 0 Comments
Just as every now and then you need to update and upgrade the software on your computer, your website also needs upgrades to the software that powers it to keep your website operating at its best. On the 6th August a patch for a security vulnerability that had been discovered in all recent versions of popular blogging and content management platforms Drupal and WordPress was released.  These...
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