WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012 took place this last weekend. And what a weekend it was! WordCamp UK rocked because of the attendees… In addition to wonderful support from our local Scottish WordPress community, attendees came from all over the UK and Europe. It’s so much fun meeting a bunch of new people, as well as… [Read more...]
The EU Cookie Law
What is the EU Cookie Law? The EU Privacy and Communications Directive, colloquially called the EU Cookie Law, requires websites to ask their visitors for consent to use certain types of web cookies. If your business is based in the EU, this law applies to you. The law came into effect on 26 May 2011,… [Read more...]
WordPress Infighting: Normal. Necessary. Pivotal.
Another day, another controversy in the WordPress community. Seems like you can’t turn around in the WordPress world these days without sending some shit flying into the fan(base). The latest grievance to see the light of day after a long period of underground grumbling is the discrepancy between the high levels of WordCamp San Francisco… [Read more...]
Increase The Security Of Your WordPress Website By Deleting Inactive Plugins And Themes
Every now and then, news of a mass compromise of WordPress sites does the rounds. In the latest of these, over 30,000 domains were affected. Such news often prompts people to blame WordPress for the vulnerabilities. But WordPress itself isn’t inherently vulnerable – the software is built with security in mind, and the core WordPress… [Read more...]
10 Steps To Spring Clean Your WordPress Site
Spring has sprung, the grass has ris, and time to spring clean your WordPress site it is! Here are 10 things you can do now to spruce up your website… Update WordPress: In addition to taking advantage of new features included in each WordPress update, having the latest WordPress version running is one of the… [Read more...]
WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012 Officially Announced
I’m very excited to announce that WordCamp UK – the UK’s largest WordPress event – will be happening in Edinburgh this year, on the weekend of 14 – 15 July! WPScotland (the Scottish community group for WordPress designers, developers and users, for which I’m the East of Scotland Regional Coordinator) had an amazing first year… [Read more...]
WordUp Edinburgh 2011
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...]