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Friday, October 30th, 2009

Minimize PHP and Database Queries

Why?
Because each time a page on your site loads, if your browser has to execute any PHP queries, it adds to the load time. So, the obvious thing to do to reuce this waste of time is to replace the PHP queries with static HTML. That way, every time a page loads, your browser just [...]

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

A new theme for FreshlyPressed clients

James has been ‘playing’ again and this time he has decided to give his new theme ONLY to those clients with us at FreshlyPressed.
It’s a great looking theme with so much built-in functionality, you would be silly not to take a moment and have a look.
Well? What are you waiting for – here it is!

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Outage – 2nd October 2009

As many of our clients noticed, we had a major outage [some 36 hours in total] on October 2nd.
This was due to a major component fault and involved rebuilding the RAID components. Due to the nature of this collapse, it was impossible to speed up the process of repair. Our technicians worked round the clock [...]

Monday, August 31st, 2009

A new Members Only area

For all of our FreshlyPressed clients, a new Members Only area has been put in place which includes such resources as providing information and guidelines on how to use the various areas within your account.
Here are a few of the recently added items:
The FreshlyPressed Hosting Firewall – how it works and what not to do.
Adding [...]

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

FTP – it really helps (a lot)

One of the more frequent issues that comes up when helping people get set up and started with WordPress, is that they often have no concept of what FTP [File Transfer Protocol] actually means. And as much as you don’t have to use an FTP program in order to run a WordPress site, there can [...]

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Welcome to our Blog

There are so many blogs already, so why make yet another? Well, we could give a really long answer and bore you to tears, but maybe the best reply is the simple, but honest, ‘Why not?‘
We have such a great bunch of clients using FreshlyPressed as their hosting platform so we thought, why not give [...]

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

WordPress security

[Original article source: JamesICT]
As more and more versions of WordPress are released, unfortunately more and more hacks become prevalent, especially in outdated versions. So, the obvious way to keep your WordPress installation secure, is to keep your site upgraded to the latest version. This is the Number One way to keep your safe free of [...]

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Individual category styling

[Original article source: JamesICT]
Did you know that you can make your category archives individual in style for each? Take JamesICT.com as an example. If you take a quick look at the categories there [as listed above in the menu bar] you can see that each archive has it’s own introduction, particular to each on an [...]

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Post revisions and Autosave off

[Original article source: JamesICT]
One of the latest features of Wordpress is the inclusion of post revisions [since about version 2.6 if memory serves me correctly] and whilst I can see the use of it in some instances, personally, I would rather it was not automatically enabled.
Basically, it is an autosave function and I find that [...]

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Admin funtionality extended

[Original article source: JamesICT]
Two plugins that I highly recommend are:
1. Admin Management Xtended:
When you want to edit properties of posts/pages, you’ll have to open the edit page, set the new options and save the post/page… which obviously takes time. For those who are using WordPress as a CMS, it’s important to be able to manage [...]