HOW TO: Secure Your WordPress Blog

Admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:49:47 +0000

WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for self-hosted blogs and websites. It’s what we use here at Mashable, and it’s a terrific tool. While WordPress is pretty secure out of the box, there are always going to be individuals who want to make trouble by finding a way to crack into accounts or sites to cause damage or inject hidden spammy links

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HOW TO: Add Facebook “Like” Buttons to Your WordPress Blog

Admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:59:01 +0000

Facebook officially unveiled its new Open Graph API and tools a few weeks ago, making it possible for developers and end users to easily hook their own sites into Facebook’s broader ecosystem.

Via Mashable: Add Facebook “Like” Buttons to Your WordPress Blog.

WordPress Founder Talks About the Platform’s Future

Admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:44:13 +0000

Via Mashable VIDEO. Matt Mullenweg, the man behind WordPress, PollDaddy and Akismet.

WordPress does it all

Admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:22:19 +0000

That may be a bit of an exaggeration but it has to be one of the best content management systems, come blogging applications, on the net at the moment. It always exceeds my expections so could it do the same for you?

I was converted a couple of years ago when I needed to provide a website that could be easily updated by a user that did not know anything about how to write a web page. Okay I am biased. The cost of the software is free and is open source so that there are lots of developers out there creating new theme templates and plugins that make life easy. If you have a little more expertise then, you can turn it from a tool just for blogging, into a content management system that has lots of features just like the enterprise versions that you pay thousands of pound for. This is a boon for any small business that wants to get a business on the web.

There are three flavours :

Hosted service that you can sign up for
Install the software on your own hosting space
Multi user version

The Hosted Service

It is free and you have a limited number of templates called themes and an equal limited number of plugin (helper applications) to choose from. Ideal if you just want to get something up and are not worried about design and branding.

Install the software on your own sever space

Very easy to do and you get two templates and a couple of plugins for good measure. You can change the theme to any number of templates that are available on the web and most of them are free and add as many plugins as you need.

WordPress MUI

Unless you have need to allow mutiple users to create blogs then this is probably best left to the corporates. To be fair most of them do not know that they could use this software very successfully to host their websites.

Need help with content?

We don’t provide the content but if you need some help with that side of things then email John Armstrong or visit his website to find out more: www.jdarmstrong.co.uk

Special Offer

For a limited time only we will set up a blog for you, with analytics (you need to see how many people visit) and set up the 5 most common plugins that you will need to get you started for £30 (for the year) AND that includes a .co.uk domain (subject to availability). All you need to do is find a template you want to use and get blogging.

If you want it as a content management system for a website we can set that up for you too for an extra fee. Contact Tina to find out more

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