WordPress 3.8 – What’s New

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The WordPress team have announced the availability of the first beta version of WordPress 3.8, with a projected release slated for 12the December.  Aside from the usual bug squashing there is quite a lot of new stuff to enjoy: A new default theme (Twenty Fourteen) Refreshed Dashboard (DASH) New Theme Selection page (THX38) A new … Read more

Enabling WordPress Excerpts on Pages

By default WordPress enables excerpts on posts, but not pages. If you’re using The Genesis Framework and setting up content via Featured posts/pages it is very useful to be able to control how the excerpt is shown. As an example, the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified allows the placement of either the excerpt or a limited sample of … Read more

WordPress Plugins – What To Look Out For

Ok, so you have installed WordPress and you’re ready to start customising your new website.  Many people turn to WordPress plugins to add that extra bit of functionality, but as with all things, there is a word of caution. Although WordPress will work just fine without any additional plugins, there may be some specific function … Read more

WordPress 3.6 is live – Genesis 2.0 to follow

So Wordpress 3.6 Oscar has gone live,  and this time it’s accompanied by a very slick video, almost Apple like in production. The main headline features of WordPress 3.6 are: The Twenty Thirteen theme – which can only be described as gorgeous, with a rich colourful blogging centric design. New Revisions interface so that you can easily find … Read more

Is WordPress for Blogging only?

It’s very easy to get carried away in knowing how versatile WordPress is.  And forget that many people may assume that WordPress is for blogging only. During a presentation recently I was asked how I was going to manage the content on a client’s website. Oh, said I, we use WordPress as the core and … Read more