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Translation plugin for Wordpress

By Dave | Published: September 25, 2009
I’m a big believer in catering for foreign language visitors to holiday rental websites. Inevitably most of my client’s guests come from another country, and mostly speak a different language. Whilst many do understand english to an advanced level, those who don’t could be missed bookings. With that in mind, I wrote on here about a [...]
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How to install Wordpress really quickly without Fantastico

By Dave | Published: May 21, 2009
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 [...]
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Multilingual Gite Websites with Wordpress using WPML plugin

By Dave | Published: April 12, 2009
With the Euro hammering Sterling, more and more gite owners are looking to new markets to attract visitors. To do this, you need to be found in the right search engines, for the right search phrases, and then engage with the visitor in their own language to ’seal the deal’. I’m increasingly asked to design multilingual [...]
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Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order

By Dave | Published: February 3, 2009
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 [...]
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