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Building Multi-Language Websites in WordPress

Paul Myatt — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:58:19 +0000

I’ve built a number of sites in Spanish and a few (including this one) in two languages. There are a number of issues to consider when planning multi-language sites such as will each page be translated manually or by machine? How will the language be switched? In her 2011 presentation Shannon Smith talks about some [...]

Getting Started with WordPress: Video Tutorials

Paul Myatt — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:12:48 +0000

I've been looking for some basic WordPress tutorials that I could reccomend to clients who are new to WordPress. Here is a series I liked from ithemes.com. Of course you can find many more over at YouTube or for more advanced topics there's WordPress TV.

Chrome Dev Crash Loop

Paul Myatt — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:57:06 +0000

How to fix Chrome's latest crash loop

The Kindle 3′s Text To Speech: Male and Female

Paul Myatt — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:08:11 +0000

One of the Kindle’s surprising features is that is can read books to you. Although the quality of the two voices is very good the only accents available are currently American. Text To Speech – TTS The space bar to pauses/resumes reading The Aa key allows switching on/off TTS The Aa key also lets you switch voices [...]

How to Save Web Pages Directly to Your kindle

Paul Myatt — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:36:19 +0000

Since I received my new Kindle 3 I’ve been playing with its web browser, which although very good at displaying web pages, has many limitations. One of which is that only a very few file types can be saved. HTML is not one of them so I went looking for a way to download a [...]

Google Improves Security With Help From Your Smart Phone

Paul Myatt — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:22:35 +0000

As your Google account becomes increasingly important Google have announced a new (optional) technique to secure your account using your mobile or smart phone. Google’s system doesn’t require a physical keycard. Instead, it relies on your mobile phone. First, you need to activate the optional feature from your settings page (again, this is only available [...]

WordPress: The Big Three “O”

Paul Myatt — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:20:23 +0000

Today WordPress hits version three. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now on a number of sites with no problems and recommend upgrading ASAP. I have used WordPress version 3 with over sixty popular plugins and can report that they all work. I’ve also had no problems using older themes although they won’t [...]

Plugin Review: Insights

Paul Myatt — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:23:09 +0000

If you are looking for a way to speed up writing posts then Insights may be the answer. It quickly finds and inserts links, photos, videos and maps in to posts and pages. The great thing about this plugin is that all the searches are done without leaving the editor page. What’s more the search [...]

Plugin Review: Add Linked Images To Gallery

Paul Myatt — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:54:05 +0000

Copies external (linked) images to the WordPress gallery when post is saved making images editable.

Plugin Review: Admin Renamer Extended

Paul Myatt — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:02:53 +0000

Renaming the default user name admin is one of the most basic security measures that should be taken to secure a WordPress installation. Unfortunately the only way to do this (until WordPress 3.0 arrives which will let you choose your admin name at install) is to edit the database directly. This plugin lets you rename admins [...]