What is WordPress?

Posted on 01. Jan, 2012 by in Wordpress

WordPress is a free to download website builder that is powered by PHP and MySQL. The PHP side of the system dictates what the website looks like, and what it can do. The MySQL side dictates most of the content (usually excluding images) and some administration settings like user details. Originally built as a simple [...]

Google Malware Warning – How We Removed The Curse

Posted on 26. Aug, 2011 by in Wordpress

Yesterday for a period of about 24 hours, our website, and every page on it, was branded on Google with the dreaded “This site may harm your computer“. When we noticed the warning, we checked Google’s Webmaster tools and there was nothing there to indicate anything had gone wrong. Of course the first thing we [...]

How to add conversions/affiliate completions to WP eCommerce

Posted on 11. Jul, 2011 by in Wordpress

In order to add a conversion to your WP eCommerce file, you need tp change the file wpsc-transaction_results_functions.php. After these lines, around line 126, if( $is_transaction ){ $message = __(‘The Transaction was successful’, ‘wpsc’).”\r\n”.$message; $message_html = __(‘The Transaction was successful’, ‘wpsc’).” “.$message_html; You have to add your conversion/completion code so that you now have if( [...]

Clean Corporate WordPress Themes

Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by in Web Design, Wordpress

As we were going through the process of building a corporate wordpress website for one of our clients, we thought we would list through some of the clean WordPress themes that are available right now. Just click on the image of the theme to grab the latest version! Main Features: WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Type [...]

Great web posts you may have missed

Posted on 22. Feb, 2011 by in blogging, Wordpress

30 Examples of Big Typography in Web DesignResearching a web design project – keywords, competitors, and target market Occasionally we like to feature some web posts that you may have missed from around the blogosphere. There’s a class action suit against Disney. A great post over at webteacher.ws highlighting how three visually impaired women filed [...]

Reducing time to first byte (TTFB)

Posted on 11. Oct, 2010 by in Web Design, Wordpress

We have also posted on Time To First Byte for WordPress and how the right host can affect your TTFB. Time to first byte (TTFB) is the time it takes for a browser to start receiving information after it has started to make the request to the server. In some situations, as much as 75% [...]

WordPress – Increasing Speed, Reducing Time to First Byte

Posted on 29. Sep, 2010 by in Web Design, Wordpress

Last week, as part of our ongoing quest to increase the speed of our website, we were tweaking our WordPress blog, we noticed a couple of things. The first was that there was a large portion of the loading time spent waiting for the database to respond. The second was that the time to first [...]

WordPress now owned by WordPress

Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by in Wordpress

Just following the trends in WordPress right now, it seems the trademark for WordPress has been passed to the foundations itself. This is probably an very altruistic gesture on the part of Matt at Automattic. The WordPress community took a big step forward today when Matt announced that Automattic has donated the WordPress trademark to [...]

Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in wp-admin/includes/update.php on line 49

Posted on 16. Sep, 2010 by in Wordpress

We experienced some sort of strange error last night when we were updating our site. Suddenly we go the following error after logging in to the admin section; Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /wp-admin/includes/update.php on line 49 After going through the files and the database, we could [...]

Faster WordPress – WP Super Cache vs W3 Total Cache

Posted on 03. Sep, 2010 by in Marketing, Web Design, Wordpress

We had a few websites hammered by big traffic recently, so we started playing around with CDNs like Amazon S3 and the like. After getting some pretty good gains from using S3 for video, we thought we would turn to our own website to see if we could increase the load times here. After getting [...]

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