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No more wp-admin

Who would have thought that typing just eight characters would get me so wound up? I monitor, edit, amend and set up so many WordPress websites every day that I must hit the keys that make up /wp-admin / more times than any other keys on my computer. I got fed up with it so much that one time I went and renamed my wp-admin folder to something else and even when I edited the… Continue reading

The WordPress Admin User Error

If you are a wordpress admin user – you need to read this Never one to miss a trick those people hell bent on causing mayhem have struck again. It seems that many, potentially thousands of WordPress websites were set up using ‘Admin’ as the main user username and spam/hackers have noticed this. There has been a huge surge in attempts to gain access to WordPress websites via the brute force attack method. Basicaly a… Continue reading

Free Marketing Advice

MARKETING: – Take every opportunity to tell people what you sell. I have some free marketing advice for you I was recently on holiday and needed some beach shoes, you know those rubber soled scuba jobs that you can walk into the sea with – I was in half a mind to get a wet suit too – well it was a holiday in the UK and the kids wanted to be in the sea.… Continue reading

Multiple WordPress sites one domain

The Assist website is in reality three websites in one, yes multiple wordpress sites one domain. Yvette the owner of the business wanted something quite unique, a website that had two distinct halves but one common theme. That might sound like a bit of gobbledygook but it actually is quite straight forward. The Brief: Multiple WordPress sites – one domain Design a WordPress website with an index page that could direct people in two… Continue reading

Simple WordPress layouts

Simple WordPress layouts It takes a lot of crafting to make something look effortless. The simple WordPress layouts for the Advance Land and Planning website took a long time to achieve. We went through a few layout choices and style and size considerations before  we were able to achieve the correct balance of all the items. Andy from Advance is meticulous in his work, so it was obvious he was going to… Continue reading