David Coveney of WordPress Developers Interconnect IT is a big fan of motorsport and a member of Liverpool Motor Club.  Although not directly involved in the website, he helps out where possible.  Previously we supplied a blog based theme and this had proven to be a huge success for the website.  Lately, however, more was wanted - the ability to target visitors with a home page along with a fresher, more businesslike appearance. Read more

You know that over-clocking experiment?

We had an interesting failure recently. The server for one of our larger clients, who have their own high-spec dedicated server arranged, went down. We got the alert by text, and swung into action.

Well, more accurately we had called the hosting providers and told them to fix it.

They gave no solid reason or explanation as to why the server had died, but within in an hour things were normal enough.

Or so we thought…

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Very quietly we’ve been building something quite special for WordPress. Let’s just say that we’re not the first with the concept, nor, I’m sure, the last. But it’s going to be about the most professional set-up. And we’ve done almost all of it with WordPress based technology.

What is it, exactly?

Well, just at this moment, we’re not saying. There’s been hints out there, and it’s not a huge secret, but we’re not ready to make any big announcements just yet. Look out for clues in our forum posts around the place, and in some of our work.

Really I had to post simply to explain why we’ve posted nothing on the blog for over a month. There’s been that internal project, but also some very interesting projects for clients. All of which has conspired to keep us with our noses on the grindstone. Soon we’ll look up and return to normal. Maybe.

It’s quite apt that on the day that WordPress.com appears to have broken (it’s not serving any front-end pages on this blog at the time of writing if you’re logged in) I’m making a post about hosting.

So to the gist of this post.

We provide hosting to clients, and only clients.  You can’t just ring us up and ask us to host your site.  We’re quite picky about what hits our server. Read more

I was going to start this little piece about how there seem to be two hot topics that generate traffic to a website.

Then I realised, there’s actually three hot topics.

But first, the original two.  This blog had been quietly pottering along and not really generating much interest until two features. Read more

I was working with a client recently on their own, customised installation of WordPress… and it was driving me potty.  It was a pretty tiring day, given that our normal training covers concepts such as drafts.  On their installation, you pressed save and the page (no posts on that one) would immediately appear on the navigation.  Not only that, but changing a page order had no effect on the javascript based menu system they’d implemented. Read more

For those of you who are fans of our Anvil WordPress Theme, a new version - 1.3 has just been released and is now available to download.  I’ve been testing it out on my own blog (at least, at the date of writing - that may change in the future) and it’s still one of our favourites.  It’s flexible, powerful, and easy to customise.

To download it, simply go to the official Anvil Demo Site and get it from there.  The site also has plenty of information on the theme’s features.

If you change a slug in WordPress it will automatically generate a 301 redirect - helping keep your search engine juice nice and rich.

Try it with the following link - it shouldn’t work, and I’ve not done anything manually.  Yet it does:

http://www.interconnectit.com/wordpress-course-7th-8th-february-2008/

Some nice tricks inside WordPress.  Keep up the good work lads!

Please Note - This version of the guide is now obsolete and been superceded by our WordPress 2.6 User Guide which can be downloaded from Spectacu.la

One of the things lacking, in the free downloads world, so far as we could see, was a simple, easy to follow WordPress guide designed for non-techie WordPress users.

There are two versions available - the latest which is for WordPress 2.6, and the previous version for WordPress 2.3 - the latest is only available from our Spectacu.la WordPress Themes Club.

To download the NEW WordPress User Guide follow this link to Spectacu.la

Download the OLD! WordPress User Guide Version 2 beta for WP 2.3

I think the document still needs work, but I would greatly appreciate any feedback, comments, or even offers of assistance. It would be quite nice to GPL this but we haven’t done so yet and I personally am 50/50 about it. What do you think?

If you want to help popularise this guide, please digg it, or add it to your favourite social bookmarking system - it would be much appreciated!