Wordpress Tips

What makes a popular website?

By Paul Cracknell - 5th October 2011

Well, we all want to have a popular website but with literally millions of websites on the net you have to try a little harder to stand out from the rest.  So what makes a successful and popular website. To discover this we need to know a little about ourselves.  First off, you have probably heard the expression ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’.  Of course the content of …

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Video Embed

By Paul Cracknell - 16th June 2010


This is a test for embed of video.

youtube video

This is a test of the video embed. By default the video will not display on the front page because the excerpt call is used. If you would like video to be shown on the front page you will have to change this. See this Article to change this.…

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How to stop Firefox crasing when using WordPress

By Paul Cracknell - 2nd June 2009

If your Firefox browser is crashing when you are using WordPress, this is the fix.

Firefox has Google Gears as an add on which interferes with WordPress. By disabling Gears you will fix the problem. This is how you do it.…

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How to fix errors with uploading images or media in WordPress

By Paul Cracknell - 13th May 2009

If you are having trouble uploading images because of this error: File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini when you use either the flash uploader or the browser, there is fix. A short article by  Phillip Barron outlines a fix using the .htaccess file.…

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