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WordPress Themes – Third Party or Custom?

If you’re at all familiar with the WordPress content management / blogging system, you’ll be aware that WordPress sites are built around the WordPress application core (this provides the functionality) and a theme (this provides the design and, to some extent, the site structure), with plugins filling the gaps between what the core and theme [...]

New Client Site – SUMS Math

Bristol-based Sums Ltd is a leading UK provider of educational software for multiple platforms (including the web), specialising in fun, animated maths activities.
ZigPress has been working with Sums for around 3 years, though nothing has appeared on the Portfolio page until now, because the projects were password-protected sites used by schools who were given access.
Now, [...]

10 Reasons Websites Should Not Play Music

I do a lot of surfing, looking for design inspiration, coding tips, or simply something to amuse me. I often start a surfing session using StumbleUpon or Wikipedia and then simply see where my interest leads me.
Sometimes, even in 2009, it leads me to a website that starts playing music or talking [...]

ZigPress Guide to Upgrading WordPress

Recent attacks have shown that keeping WordPress installations up-to-date is absolutely vital. If you have WordPress installations and they’re not yet running at least 2.8.4, ask yourself why not?

Self-hosted WordPress upgrades are supposed to be really easy, but the “one-click” upgrade process is flawed and only works on certain hosts, and these certain hosts [...]

WordPress 2.8.5 Released

A new version of WordPress has been released. This isn’t the major, extra-improved 2.9 that all WordPress developers are waiting for, but rather a minor interim release to harden existing installations against recent attack methods.
From the WordPress site:-
The headline changes in this release are:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being [...]