Category Archives: Blogging for Gites

How to install Wordpress really quickly without Fantastico

I used to have Fantastico, now I don’t. I’ve recently moved over to Mosso as my web host, and they don’t have the standard Cpanel functionality, let alone the one click install for Wordpress that Fantastico affords. Which has been… frustrating.

You see, I probably do at least one Wordpress install per week, either for a client, or for myself for my latest experiment in getting-rich-quick-that-never-works. (As an aside, for all you Wordpress developers out there Read More »

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Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order

This one is critical for the layout of any blog, as the build in Wordpress page ordering function is in their own words crap ’clunky’ and despite ongoing promises, it’s still not fixed in Wordpress 2.7.  There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the default page order Wordpress assigns, which makes creating a sensible page layout very tricky. Read More »

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Favourite Wordpress plugins

I only found out this morning that yesterday (28th Jan) was Thank A Plugin Developer Day over at Wordpress, the idea being a day focused on given thanks and financial support to the thousands of Wordpress plugin developers.

Well I missed it, so I feel the need to make amends.

When I design a website for a holiday rental property owner, there are several Wordpress plugins I use to make the site really work. I’ve been asked a couple of times for plugin recommendations,  so I thought I’d do a series of posts focusing on the plugins I get the most out of and in doing so, get to ‘big up’ the developers involved.

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