On the weekend I replaced my last Drupal site with a WordPress one. The main reason was that it and one other site had become resource hogs due to spammers. The registration tables were bloated and it felt like my host had downgraded my sites to a slower server. That plus upgrading drupal is a...

I did a survey the other day for a wine company. It had arrived in the mail, had a nice brochure, offered a decent free gift for doing their survey, no strings attached. I mailed it off and promptly forgot about it. On Monday I got a phone at work saying they had the free gift ready, and would...

Dear Magento, You need to update your documentation. It’s a consistent message across all the blogs and forums I’ve visited. We want to build plugins that follow best practice, but finding documentation about best practices has proved elusive. Magento, more than most other sites...

Was just viewing a site through the Web Development Network console, to check whether tracking codes were in place, and noticed warning messages from Twitter that our Twitter widget was deprecated and would stop working soon. ?No other announcements? Followed the link, and apparently it was...

Sometimes you find the right plugin. I’ve been playing with WordPress for a couple of weeks, reorganising my AdWords, AdSense, Analytics, Tag Manager, AddThis accounts into consolidated accounts. All managed through the lovely ManageWP interface. This year I’m planning to...