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bbPress Plugin: SEO

Friday, July 16th, 2010

I’m pleased to finally release version 2 of bbPress KJG SEO.

One of the great things about bbPress is that when it works, it blows away other forums. It doesn’t get many things right, but I feel with this plugin you’ll see a huge difference in your site’s SEO. It has almost all of the features of it’s WordPress counterparts and many more. Definately it’s something I’m very proud of, and it’s seeing great results in the beta tests. In the past 6 months, I’ve come to regard this bbPress Plugin as a must have – something that rarely happens as an overly critical developer.

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An open letter to Automattic re: the bbPress plug-in

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Dear Automattic,

My name is Kevinjohn Gallagher, and I’m one of the people to who contribute to bbPress.

I’ve mentioned this before, but after the announcement by Jane Well on the Official WordPress blog, and by Andrew Nacin on the WordPress development blog, I thought I’d take one last shot at a bit of sanity:

Please, stop calling the new forum plugin for WordPress the “bbPress plugin”.

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New Client: Heriot-Watt University

Friday, June 18th, 2010

I am pleased to announce the signing of a new client: Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Heriot-Watt are migrating their online information repository as part of the larger SAS Project, and today signed off on our pitch to create the web app on the WordPress platform. This will be the first time that Heriot-Watt have used WordPress for an externally facing website, and we’re very pleased that they have continued the trend of Scotland’s Top Universities (Edinburgh and Napier universities are previous clients) in choosing Kevinjohn Gallagher and PureWebBrilliant.com.

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Murphy’s Law with WordPress

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

It had to happen eventually. At some stage in the last 2 weeks, some of my older wordpress installs on my old server appear to have become compromised in some form. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that it was over the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of the last month; right when I paused my server migration process.

If I’m honest with myself, I’ve been lucky with some of the sites that this hasn’t happened before. Ofcourse, I’ve taken every precaution availible and even being critical of myself I can hand on heart say that security on my WordPress installs has improved dramatically in the last 18 months; but a mixture of older WordPress versions, bbpress legacy code, custom code and the great unknown, the website user, have finally conspired against me.

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I build WordPress based websites

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Sounds simple, and obvious, given that WordPress has been my go-to platform of choice for website creation over the last 4 years; but as I upgrade the last of my client websites to the brand new WordPress3.0RC3 it occurred to me that this is what I do.

I build, from end to end, websites in WordPress.

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4 months of silence

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

This weekend marks 4 month since bbPress received any official update on it’s blog, or has any of it’s “weekly” IRC triages; Matt has thrown his toys out of the pram, and publicly talked down the project at this year’s WordCamp, no-one knows if we’re meant to be working on the 1.0.3 trac or the 1.1 trac, and this version of the software is going to be it’s last.

So the question I want to ask is, where now for bbPress? Here are my thoughts…

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Looking for Work

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

As of today, 1st May 2010, I have decided to officially end my sabbatical from the IT industry.

In other words, I’m actively looking for work.

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(Matt + holiday) = (bbPress – Matt) = (Matt – Fanboys) = Toys – Pram

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Matt + holiday = bbPress – Matt = Matt – Fanboys = Toys – Pram = bbpress – Automattic

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whats-happening-with-bbpress/page/5#post-64410

I don’t think I’ve ever been so shocked at an adult’s childishness.

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Basic versus Standard

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Neither word is ideal in it’s definition of pre-packaged functionality, but lately I’ve seen far too many people confuse the two as interchangeable. It’s not just a case of semantics either, it’s a statement of what we can aim to achieve against public perception.
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Server Upgrade

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

This website, and all feeds, will be offline for about 6 hours today.

I’m moving to an upgraded server that will give me a bit more control over the installed server modules which is a feature i’ve been look forward to for a few months; and hopefully should see a rack of new services offered to clients in the new year.

Between you me and the post, i’m hoping a new server build will decrese the load times on some of the WordPress based sites; because I’m still utterly bamboozled as to the cause of the intermitant issue.

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7 Days!! WordPress 2.7

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

It’s almost as if Irony is lost on the good folks over at WordPress. Just 7 working days after ranting about how WordPress is not updated too often and that the next version is not due for months (november infact), Jeff Chandler posts the inside scoop on the new version of WordPress along with screenshots and links to install the beta.

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