With WordPress powering approximately a third of the worlds websites, it touches a lot of peoples lives including developers, designers, business owners and end users. We have seen the New Zealand WordPress community when we have attended WordCamps, the large unconferences that happen each year in NZ to discuss all thibgs WordPress (and some no […]
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Learn Stuff! Have Fun! Make a Difference! Tuesday 14th of May, 2019 – 9:30am to 1:30pm Get your chance to help your site improve in search rankings by understanding how they work and how you can make changes to your website to do this. It is a 4 hour workshop that covers a whole range
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We are doing some work with a Java based application (Alfresco) that we have deployed using a Windows installer. Recently, we had an issue where the starting of the services (Tomcat and Postgres) both failed, they would say \”Starting\” for about 5 seconds and then stop. The log in the Application Log showed Starting Tomcat
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As the internet moves toward a more secure web and Chrome and Firefox start to increasingly make insecure websites more and more obvious, it makes it more and more important to make sure your website is on the right side of the SSL line. We have turned to Really Simple SSL It is really simple
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Do you need to change a port number in Outlook for your email? Looking for some other mail account settings that you were sure were there before? Join plenty of others who seem to be having the same issue. If you are running the latest version of Outlook (Office 365 subscription users like me are
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WordPress is due for a major upgrade shortly. (Currently in Beta form, here is the link to the latest info https://wordpress.org/news/2018/11/wordpress-5-0-beta-4/) Whenever you see a piece of software tick over to the next major version (in this case 4.9.8 to 5.0) it can be nervous times for website owners and website developers like us. In this
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Tuesday 20th November, 2018 – 9:30am to 1:30pm Before we get into the crazy season, we have a last chance to help your site improve in search rankings by understanding how they work and how you can make changes to your website to do this. It is a 4 hour workshop that covers a whole
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Technical stuff that is only technical because I like doing the creative arty stuff for our Word Press website builds: We have just finished Phase 1 of a website using Elementor as the page Builder inside a template called Phlox. It took me a good 10 days to get my head around all the functionality
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We use Dropbox as a backup solution enabling a sync of our data into the cloud. One of the limitations of Dropbox is it is all under a single folder, which is all fine if you start from that, but in our situation we had legacy locations for data on our PC. So along comes
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As part of the new General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) compliance that many website and business owners are now required to work to, one of the areas that needs to be looked at is anonymising data that is not relevant. One of these items is the visitors IP address. This is useful to determine where
