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In my post building a digital career, I hinted at the fact that I was planning on building a new site on the domain name neil-matthews.com, I’ve pulled off the wrappers off that site and I would like to announce it here first. What Neil-Matthews.com is about I’m going to be writing all about the idea of a digital persona on neil-matthews.com, a topic that doesn’t really sit that well on a WordPress site so I have branched my writing off onto another site to allow me to write about WordPress here and a wider range of online topics at […]

One of the most useful plugins I have ever found is one called Firebug,  Let me quickly qualify this by saying this is a Firefox plugin not a WordPress plugin What Does FireBug Do? It gives you a visual representation of the CSS that is used to code your site.  It shows you which css files particular components use. In other words it is a brilliant tool to help you write and code up WordPress themes. It’s not the easiest thing to explain so I have recorded a quick screen cast video of me using Firebug where all will (I […]

I’ve been called in a couple of times recently by clients to fix hacked sites.  What makes it worse is that they were victims of a very pernicious attack know as the Pharma Hack. I want to make you aware of this hack and give you tools to find if you are a victim and how to fix it. What Is The Pharma Hack When your site is infected with this hack, you will be inadvertently giving links to Pharma sites selling Viagra and Cialis and other disco drugs.  Not the most professional thing for people to see in Google […]

I’m going to extend the focus of wpdude in the coming months and start to write about some of the things I am passionate about outside of the tech arena.  I hope they are of intetest, it not just tell me to shut the F!!K up in the comments. Today I want to talk about building a digital career. What Is A Digital Career I think of it as digital entrepreneurship, running your own business (probably as a solopreneur) online.  This means you sell your products or service solely online via online marketing practices such as email lists, search engine marketing and […]