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April 28th, 2008

Wordcamp UK - update

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Wordcamp uk is progressing nicely with a confirmed date of 19th-20th July in Birmingham. Now it’s just a matter of picking a venue.

From Automattic Inc Sam Bauers will be attending and discussing WordPress scaling and integrating bbpress into your blog.

If your interested in attending or participating here are some useful links:
Official Site
Wordcamp UK blog
Wordcamp Mailing List
Wordcamp UK Wiki

Also if anyone from Bristol is attending and wants to car share please let me know.


				
April 28th, 2008

WordPress vs Movable type

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internet is serious business

“internet is serious business”

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April 14th, 2008

Matt on Best Damn Tech Show

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Matt appeared on the Best Damn Tech Show, they discuss Microsoft, Open Source and some random s^%t.

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April 13th, 2008

WordCamp UK date proposed

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Tony Scott recently took it upon himself to start discussions on the possibility of a Word Camp UK, in the last month it seems to have gaged a lot of interest from fellow UK WordPresser’s, a date is now being considered for 19-20 July, although location is still not clear.

If your interested in attending/organising/sponsoring join the WordCamp UK Mailing List

Hopefully a list of speakers and location will be announced soon. As soon as I find out I’ll update WP Core with the full details. I could also be willing to ‘car share’ with any local Bristolians wishing to go but have no transport.

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March 23rd, 2008

Optimizing a new WordPress 2.5 install

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Everytime I install a copy of WordPress on a site I have set of tasks I always complete before I start writing posts, I’ll be talking you through those with a quick 5 minute guide to optimize a fresh install of WordPress:

1) First things first update the Permalinks so there seo friendly:

login to your wp-admin -> Settings -> Permalinks

Select ‘Custom Structure’ and enter:
/%category%/%postname%/

More info on permalinks here

2) Next let’s update the ping list:

Why? This will help get various search engines to crawl your site as soon as you have created a new post and Index it quicker.
go to Settings -> Writing and at the bottom in the text area under “Update Services” replace it with the list from this post: Pinging update services

3) Next were going to add a google sitemap

head over here download site sitemap plugin, upload it to wp-content/plugins via ftp and activate in wp-admin -> plugins

4) Finally were going to create a Feedburner account.

So head over and sign up, once you have created your account and burnt your feed we need to redirect our WordPress feeds to our new feedburner feed, do this with the Feedsmith Feedburner plugin, again upload it to your plugin folder and activate in the wp-admin.

All you need now is a theme, theres thousands of free ones, but a great place to start is looking through this list on smashing magazine

Now your all ready to post. Theres alot more you can do once your blogs running to improve seo and such. This was just a basic guide for fresh installs, if you found this post useful consider subscribing to our RSS Feed

Update: This post was indexed by google within 20 minutes of being published