March 11, 2010

Live!

Filed under: WordPress Site Development — Mandy @ 2:09 pm

Claire’s new site is now live at Amaryllis Wedding Flowers. She’s still adding and adapting content, but is already getting a stack of new enquiries. Wordpress really does get those search engines working quickly – especially as we’ve not yet submitted the site anywhere as Claire is due to have a baby any day now. Good luck Claire!

February 28, 2010

Very Amusing!

Filed under: WordPress Site Development — Mandy @ 11:22 pm

Well Google certainly picks up WordPress sites quickly. I’ve not submitted this site to any search engines (seeing as it’s very much a work in progress and I’m not sure where it’s heading yet!) but it must be being picked up somewhere as I’m getting a stack of comments – mostly to my “Adapting Colours” post.
Now, anyone who knows about these things will see that I’ve not mentioned anything complicated in that post. Those who don’t know about these things will see that I’ve probably not mentioned enough to get them started either. So all in all, a pretty useless blog entry, so why all the comments saying it’s “quality content”?! Well, it’s making me laugh anyway, so feel free to continue to make these random flattering comments about a less than mediocre blog! Maybe I’ll actually publish the funniest each week…
In the meantime, I’ve been working on a couple of sites, but more about those later this week.
Have fun!

February 9, 2010

The CMS solution!

Filed under: WordPress Site Development — Mandy @ 8:53 am

I’ve found a fantastic plugin that brings Wordpress much closer to being a full CMS system. TS Custom Widgets allows you to choose which pages and posts individual widgets are displayed on. Hoorah! Big thanks to that plugin developer!

However, despite it’s wonderfulness, it doesn’t allow me to hide the right side bar completely when I need to. For this, I need to do some more investigation…

mmm…I’ve worked out that it *can* be done, but it’s a bit messy, so I think I’ll stick with the two sidebars for now. Bringing more divs and even the sidebar call into the page posting takes away the slickness of WordPress! If anyone knows of another way or a good template with collapsible sidebar dependent on if any widgets are set to display on it, let me know about it!

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