Invurt web site re-design.

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Recently completed a huge re-design for invurt.com with over a thousand pages, luckily it was already using wordpress so it was all about finding the right theme, styling, hacking, hacking, more hacking; and as a bonus, this could only be done after 9pm due to the site being live (almost 6 years now!) Invurt is … Read moreInvurt web site re-design.

Site relocation & Better Search Replace plugin

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Recently I moved a wordpress install from a sub directory to the current modX install root directory. Only this isn’t correct to say. I didnt know how to look for what I was about to perform at first, and was a little scared as this was the biggest website I’d rebuilt, ever! over 1400 pages! … Read moreSite relocation & Better Search Replace plugin

Making a WordPress Template

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So making a template file just like a child theme or styling using the theme options css box is a good non-destructive way (to the theme and in case you change themes) to style your layout. The following is an example of what to do when making a template for an alternative home page: 1. … Read moreMaking a WordPress Template

Google adsense responsive ad

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Making the Google adsense banner ad responsive for my current project has proven very frustrating. Nothing worked. It either broke the width of the screen and remained at 728px wide on mobile, stayed at 320px on laptop or was 1pxwide x 90px high and other such fun times. Finally after reading up heaps and choosing … Read moreGoogle adsense responsive ad

Web design / maintenance for The Catz Pyjamas

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The Catz Pyjamas is a beautiful cat boarding house in Brunswick. I’d already been past taking photos of the graffiti next door prior to being contacted by Annette and asked for some help in maintenance and upkeep of her equally beautiful website originally designed by the independent web co with art by the kooky and … Read moreWeb design / maintenance for The Catz Pyjamas

blurry featured / related post images fix

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Been too busy for ages to fix the related post image resolution on allThoseShapes. I wasn’t sure if it was a wordpress thing or a mythemeshop theme thing. Blurry related post images. They look terrible. And allThoseShapes is an image driven site. Reading up it seemed there were a few potential ways to fix this … Read moreblurry featured / related post images fix

updating to SSL

scary. can be. when the site is biiiig. 1400-1500 pages! so first things first backup, update plugins, backup, update wordpress, backup heheheh yep THEN So the SSL had already been purchased but not ‘forced’. First change URLs in wordpress then add )(*)* to htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sprinkle\.com.au$|^www\.sprinkle\.com.au$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://sprinkle.com.au/$1 … Read moreupdating to SSL

SEO for Melbourne Street Art Tours

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Been studying analytics and SEO changes for sometime and have now helped a few sites with or to maintain their Search Engine Optimisation. Melbourne Street Tours were the first to start street art tours and are the biggest in Melbourne but had never done any SEO at all so adding/ implementing was done carefully, specifically … Read moreSEO for Melbourne Street Art Tours

dont like hacks? keep updating

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If itDoesCompute seems a little broken – its cause it is. It seems you cant be sleepy, something I already knew, but due to work load and thinking yeah itll be okay, I left myself open for those lovely spammy rank seeking hacker advertisers. More details later, and some tips and info one main thing … Read moredont like hacks? keep updating