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On WordPress blogs, there has for a number of versions been a really handy trick which automatically embeds YouTube videos when you post the URL on it’s own on a new line. Traditionally(!) this was a real time saver, as it allowed busy WordPress webmasters the opportunity to grab YouTube URLs and simply paste them [...]

This morning, we committed the 1.0 version of a new WordPress plugin, called “Race Maps” to the WordPress plugins repository, on behalf of international running website, Race-Calendar.com. You can find Race Maps at WordPress here. The plugin very simply allows bloggers with an interest in running, or health, to very quickly add interactive maps (built [...]

Whenever there’s a new version of WordPress out (which should always be installed for security reasons – (WordPress 3.4.2 is out today!)) or a new version of your WordPress website’s theme or plugins is released, you’ll often want to upgrade from within WordPress without having to download, FTP, upload and install each new version. Luckily [...]

We often install the Open source (free, and developed by a community of programmers, rather than one, paid, team) Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. WordPress was originally a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg, but, in its short history, the software, which runs on (also Open source) PHP and MySQL, has developed into far more [...]

The mobile web is here, and it doesn’t look like it is going anywhere fast, now, does it?! So you probably want to make your company website look good on an Apple iPhone, iPad, or Google Android Handset? Well, the good news for people who use WordPress to manage their web content is that there [...]

More and more frequently, in this shrinking, digital, world, we find we are asked to consider more than just one language when new web development projects come through. We recently completed a website which is available in two languages – for a Germany based translation firm, interestingly enough. This work led us to consider the [...]