Back in January this year, seven people met in a pub in Glasgow for the very first WPScotland meetup. Fast-forward ten months to Saturday 22 October, to find just under 50 people from all over Scotland (plus a couple from the north of England, including Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress) gathered together in a room… [Read more...]
Thou Shalt Not Steal
What’s up with the Internet lately? I mean, I know that the Intertubes are not exactly the place where only saints and paragons of virtue hang out. After all, it’s representative of humanity, and humanity’s a delightful mishmash of the aforementioned paragons on one side, those with more dubious morals on the other, and everyday… [Read more...]
WordPress 3.1 Released
WordPress 3.1 was released this past week, and it introduces some new features that make WordPress an even more powerful Content Management System (CMS) than before. From a development point of view, I’m really excited about the new options that will allow us to build even more functionality into client sites. And from a user’s… [Read more...]
Client Spotlight: Kimberly Richey Rolfing
Once upon a time, in a country far, far away, I used to be an Occupational Psychologist (sometimes also called an Organisational Psychologist), with a particular interest in career development. While I’m no longer a practising psychologist, my deep interest in why people do the work that they do and the journey they took to… [Read more...]
Client Spotlight: Sarah Aldrich Pilates
Once upon a time, in a country far, far away, I used to be an Occupational Psychologist (sometimes also called an Organisational Psychologist), with a particular interest in career development. While I’m no longer a practising psychologist, my deep interest in why people do the work that they do and the journey they took to… [Read more...]
The Monthly Marvin
I remember when I first started Phenomenoodle… I was approached by a local networking organisation and asked to join – at a fee of £250, to be paid upfront for a year’s membership. It’s not an unreasonable amount at all, but at that particular point in time, not really having earned very much yet from… [Read more...]
Marvin, Or, Why The Heck Do You Have A Skeleton On Your Website?!
Today’s blog post was supposed to be about our new pay-monthly option for our web design and development services – The Monthly Marvin. But, as I started writing it, I realised that launching into details about something called ‘The Monthly Marvin’ didn’t really make sense if I hadn’t ever fully explained who or what Marvin… [Read more...]
Critical WordPress Security Update: 3.0.4
WordPress 3.0.4. has just been released. It fixes a core security bug and is therefore defined as a critical update – as a result, it is imperative that you update your WordPress installs now. You can update using the automatic update feature on your WordPress dashboard. If you choose to do this, please remember to… [Read more...]
WordPress 3.0.2 released: Mandatory security update
WordPress 3.0.2. has just been released. It’s a mandatory security update for all previous versions of WordPress – while this release does address some specific security issues, it’s always a good idea to keep your WordPress installation updated to the latest version to ensure that your site is as secure as possible against threats. You… [Read more...]
WordPress Wins CMS Award
Congratulations WordPress! WordPress has just beaten Joomla and Drupal to win this year’s Open Source CMS Hall Of Fame Award. Those of us who work with WordPress every day know exactly how powerful the software is as a Content Management System, and it’s fantastic to see WordPress getting more and more recognition for this and… [Read more...]