Time to secure my wordpress sites more seriously

My WordPress site has been hacked by the Pharma Hack. It’s sad yes, I know, I should have properly secured my site years ago. I assume one of the reasons my site was hacked was due to a large portion of my print design portfolio containing Pharmaceutical Ad Campaigns. The hack was spotted by a [...]

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WordPress “Custom” Post Types, Taxonomies and Write Panels

The WordPress developer community is a buzz with a new “Custom” set of lingo which seems to be dominating the airwaves of late. With the release of WordPress version 3.0 a whole host of new custom features have been added to our favourite Content Management System(CMS) platform taking it way further along the line towards [...]

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New WordPress site for 2010 WorldCup Fan Accommodation

The fani.am website promotes fan accommodation in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup Soccer event, using WordPress, some great plugins & flutter custom fields.

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A few ways Firefox rocks my day

I’ve used Firefox for years & it’s grown into a real gem of a tool. Not so much for it’s standards support, but due to a great community of add-on developers. It’s also just geekishly cool & makes a huge difference in my day as a designer, developer, blogger & general surfer. A Few Reasons [...]

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Miraculously my Categories have returned?

So my cats are back in the wordpress hat! After some trouble with my comments going walkies, it seems all is well again in nomad-one land. Turns out the problem was caused by some quota limit which caused some plugin problems and not the plugins themselves so WP Super Cache and friends, my apologies. Donncha [...]

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WordPress Meetup Cape Town #2 Coming up soon

Hi All you wordpress Gurus, Rockstars and enthusiasts out there. The second WordPress cape Town Meetup is closing in on us and registration is open. The first meetup was a great success even though numbers were relatively low but we expect a much larger turn-out for session 2. No payments necessary this time as the [...]

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Great Flickr Photography – Check out Daniel Lurie’s pics

When I came across Daniel Luries’ Flickr account I just had to contact him and give him a compliment on a great collection of imagery. It’s amazing how technology & web 2.0 has levelled the playing fields in many disciplines to allow those who, like Daniel are looking to make a name for themselves. Many [...]

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1st WordPress Meetup Cape Town – Post Mortem

It was good to finally meet up and discuss wordpress with other enthusiasts today, and to see where others’ minds are at with regard to the future of the cms.

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I won twice in constructive criticism blog commenting

I’m ecstatic at the moment after receiving word from 2 online commenting competitions that I’ve been nominated as a winner. Woohoo! Firstly on www.adii.co.za I’ve won a copy of adii’s new premium magazine style wordpress theme which is one of the best magazine style themes I’ve come across so far. The competition entailed commenting on [...]

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The South African new media scene is hotting up

The last few weeks have been an amazing experience for me as a blogger, designer and new media strategist though it’s been one steep learning curve. It all started when I quit my day job a little short of 2 months ago. I had been blogging for a while experimentally and on more of a [...]

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Muti now part of our favourite bookmarking wordpress plugin

Looking around for ways to allow people to submit my posts to various social bookmarking networks I was introduced to share-this by a friend a while ago which is a much more elegant way of adding a whole host of bookmarking options in a discreet manner. I just hate those long lists of icons cluttering [...]

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