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We have just renewed our Post Status membership, here is why you should sign up
We have blogged about this before and as our yearly membership has just renewed we thought we would let everyone know why we continue to be a member of Post Status and what benefit it does for us and the WordPress community. If you are unfamiliar with Post Status then they are a website and…
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We’re growing. Here’s what you can expect from us in the next year.
The last couple of years have seen a real expansion in our WordPress development business and we have been growing in a strong upward curve which has been a fantastic journey. To continue this positive trend we have set some ambitious goals to expand, grow and optimise what we do. WordPress now powers over 27%…
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Why showing up means showing up and how you can show up more often!
There is a quote that often goes round about showing up being 90% of the way to success. What I have realised is that showing up isn’t just showing up and doing your normal amount of effort in your normal frame of mind and then expecting magic things to happen. No, that is the sure…
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It’s a tiny thing, but it’s had the biggest impact on our success. Here it is.
I review my outcomes/goals every day. There, I said it. For those that know me, that won’t be a surprise, as I am a real outcome focused person. For me, and others, the act of reaffirming in your mind, your goals, on a daily basis has been so powerful, it’s now something that we do…
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The new “The Phantom of the Opera” is now live
As an ongoing client, we have done quite a bit of development work for The Really Useful Group, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production company. When they contacted up about developing a new version of The Phantom of the Opera we really excited, especially our finance director Sophie, who is a massive fan of the show. The…
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Did you spend today chasing mice or hunting antelopes?
I picked this saying up when reading Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris and loved it straight away. To explain it a bit better, a lion can easily spend all day catching mice but in the end, they will starve to death as there isn’t enough food for them to survive on. However, if they…
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Wonderful WordCamp Manchester
We are just back from a brilliant WordCamp in Manchester, our first up north and it was excellent. My favourite talk of the day was from Dave Green (@davetgreen) about WordPress coding standards and even though we work to these standards ourselves, there where still some great nuggets on information there. As is usual with…
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WP Agency Review: Pressmatic
Getting us to change from our tried and tested development process is always a challenge and even though we are constantly looking to improve, our dev tools have stayed static for the last couple of years. Enter Pressmatic… Pressmatic (https://pressmatic.io/) comes with the simplest of slogans “Install WordPress on your Mac” and quite simply this…
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Mass updating values in your WordPress database
Often when we migrate a site from one domain to another we have to update the values in the database to reflect the URL of the site we are now going to be using. Nowadays we typically use WP Migrate DB Pro to do all the heavy lifting but sometimes we do it manually and this is how…
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Update: WordPress Loop for a Custom Post Type
As our post on creating a loop for a custom post type was one of our most popular we thought we would add some updates to this and some better examples of how it works. You may find it better to start with this post if you haven’t read it already. Our original post used…
