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Wordpress training videos on Gite Guru

A while back I did a couple of training videos showing people how to get Wordpress set up on their servers.

Recently I’ve noticed that, particularly with new customers, it’s sometimes difficult to talk someone through the basic functionality of Wordpress when you’re not in the same room looking at the same screen (which we’re inevitably not!).

With that in mind, I’ve started producing some really simple training videos and sticking them up on the site for clients and non-clients alike. So far I’ve covered writing a Wordpress post, writing a Wordpress page, Adding Images to a post or Page, and changing your Wordpress page order. All these videos can be found in the Wordpress Tutorials category of the site.

Coming up are using the widgets area of your theme, and some of the more advanced plugins such as next gen gallery. Done.

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Photo Lover theme release

photo-lover-themeI’m a big lover of background photography on Wordpress themes, (the theme on this site Aeros uses background images) so I decided to make my own, which I’m releasing today, called Photo Lover (demo here).

The Photo Lover Wordpress theme is perfect for holiday rental websites,  but also for photographers, illustrators and I’m sure many other users.

It features a clever little function which allows the reader to hide the content on the page to see the image below in it’s (near) entirety and displays the page content on a semi transparency. Read More »

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Annoucing the launch of rentgitefrance.com

If you can’t beat ‘em… this is actually more of an experiment than a business model, but I’m interested to see what’s what in the directory market so I’ve launched Rent a Gite in France.

There’s lots of sites out there taking money off people for listing their gites, and so I’m launching my own, free directory (free to a point, but essentially free). Over the course of the next few months I’m going to bring my SEO expertise to bear on the site (the directory is built using Wordpress plus a series of amazing plugins, so that’s a good start), and allow the link juice love to flow directly down to all the gites listed in the directory.

So if you own a gite, advertise it now before I sell my soul and start charging like the rest of them. It’s bound to happen. 

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I’d love you to list if you own a holiday rental property in France, and also would appreciate any feedback in the comments below. 

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Wordpress 2.7 release

Wordpress announced today that 2.7 is out of public beta and now the official stable version of Wordpress. You can download it here. I’ve been playing around with the beta version of Wordpress for a couple of months now, and if you’ve watched any of my WP tutorial screencasts, you’ll have had a sneak peek at the 2.7 admin interface. Some of the key benefits are: Read More »

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Photo lover theme is sponsored by Rent Gites in France and designed by Gites in Normandy