Author: Ed
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Oops!
Apologies for the recent downtime folks – I took a trip into the wilderness the past week and had been experimenting with some fine tuning of my varnish/nginx config just before I left. I thought everything was sweet but turns out it wasn’t 🙁 Anyway, everything should now be back to normal. If it’s any…
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Featured packed Jigoshop V1.0 released
It looks like the folks over at Jigoshop have not been slacking off in January with today’s announcement that Jigoshop V1.0 is out! Dan the team have clearly been listening to the community and have delivered in spades for V1.0. Key highlights Complete overhaul of the Products UI – This is a biggie – many…
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Happy New Year!
Wow can you believe is 2012 already? I want my hover board already 🙂 As is now a regular pattern, when it’s quiet here on the blog it normally means that I’m hectic with work and life. This time is no different! I was originally intending on running another 24 ways post series in December…
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High Performance WordPress – Part 4
Alrighty folks, if you’ve been following along with the High Performance WordPress post series you will by now have experienced the awesomeness of a WordPress website running on nginx. If you’ve not been following along what are you waiting for? Go check out the following posts first: Part 1 – VPS Setup Part 2 –…
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High Performance WordPress Part 3
Hey folks I’m back with Part Three of the High Performance WordPress guide. If you’ve not done so already, be sure to check out Parts One and Part Two which will take you from a position of having no server to a fully configured VPS machine running the kickass nginx web server and mysql –…
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High Performance WordPress – Part 2
So it’s taken much longer to push out Part 2 of the High Performance WordPress post series but it’s back and hopefully won’t have as big a gap for Part 3! Last time in Part 1 we got you as far as selecting a VPS host (still loving Linode!) and your OS selection (Ubuntu 10.10).…
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In defense of themeforest
I’ve been keeping a close eye on a number of different theme marketplaces recently. As far as WordPress is concerned, to me there are 2 main marketplaces in the ecosystem today. The first and the biggest by some distance in my opinion is the juggernaut that is themeforest (part of envato). The second is the…
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Rooling: a new Commercial WordPress theme for law firms
So this one has been a while coming. Today I shipped Rooling – a new commercial WordPress theme designed specifically for lawyers, law firms, attorneys, Lionel Hutz wannabes – you get the idea. I’ve spent the past few months building a pretty decent framework for my own custom WordPress themes. Nothing groundbreaking really, just pulling…
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WooCommerce launched by WooThemes
Wow a whole month with no posts! Sorry about that folks – you might think this means I’ve been hiding under a rock and not keeping up with whats going on with WordPress these days. Far from it – I’m still knee deep trying to ship a new WordPress theme which is taking forever with…
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Hello WooCommerce, Bye bye Jigoshop?
Hmm…this is an interesting one. WooThemes have pulled off a pretty spectacular move today and forked Jigoshop (our favourite new WordPress eCommerce plugin) into WooCommerce, which will replace it’s heretofore unsuccessful attempts at creating a WooCommerce platform off their own bat. The possibly bigger news is not only have they forked Jigoshop but they’ve brought in the…