Josh.biz goes 100% WordPress powered

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It’s been a while since we last posted. Sorry for the delay. We had temporarily paused making any new posts until the Josh.biz website had been fully converted into a WordPress powered website on new servers. Up until now only the blog section of our website had been WordPress powered.

WordPress is now our favoured content management system. Many of our clients are already using WordPress to update their web pages (and blogs/news pages) themselves. It’s a powerful system and most importantly, it’s easy to use. We now even have our own dedicated support website for WordPress users: wpmadesimple.org. The remaining core tutorials should be online by Christmas.

As a safeguard, the Josh.biz website is now hosted on a server entirely separate to our clients. This means that in the event of a service issue or incident, clients will still be able to access our website, check our announcements page and email us (assuming they have access to a working email account).

With our website converted, it’s much easier for us to update the page content and to post new stories on the blog. We can even update the entire website from an iPhone app!

Using NextGEN Gallery

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At last, our first WordPress guide hits the press. Due to popular demand, we’ve gone for one of the ‘more advanced’ subjects to cover first – using the WordPress NextGEN Gallery plug-in.

Displaying galleries of photographs is a common requirement for many websites. Business websites often have a need to show off portfolios or show sample products.

Josh.biz chose to use the NextGEN Gallery plug-in by alexrabe.de. This is a great plug-in (with some impressive advanced options) and offers the user and easy to use interface for updating images. Keeping galleries up to date should be performed frequently and keeps a website feeling fresh.

The NextGEN Gallery is a great option but there aren’t many really easy to use guides available. So, here’s our own.

If you know of any other handy guides, tutorials or resources for NextGEN Gallery, please let us know so we can pass the information on.

Managing Galleries using the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Plug-in

Managing Galleries using the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Plug-in (pdf)

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Coming soon…

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Sorry for the prolonged delay with the all important content for this website. We’re nearly there!

We have determined the subjects which will be initially covered (and later expanded). Sample subjects include:

  • Fundamentals - Understanding what WordPress is, the difference between pages and posts
  • Responsibilities - understanding the responsibilities of running a WordPress website
  • Posts - how to add posts to your blog
  • Pages - how to add pages to your blog
  • Text formatting – what’s available and what to avoid…
  • Using images – preparing images for your website and how to add

WordPress 3 coming soon

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Wordpress 3Clients running WordPress (content managed) websites will be pleased to hear that a major new release of WordPress, version 3 is due for release any time now. It offers lots of new features, allowing web designers to do even more with WordPress. This popular CMS (content management system) and blogging tool just keeps getting better! Clients effected will be contacted if and when necessary.

Once WordPress version 3 is released, we’ll be completing our in-house WordPress online user guide.