WordPress comes 'home': France holds its first WordCamp

It seemed like fun. A quick jaunt over to Paris, to attend their first WordCamp proper. A chance to put my French to its toughest test in 17 years. A chance to attend a WordCamp as an ordinary punter, rather than as an organiser. And a good opportunity to check up on the neighbours. Paris … Continue reading WordPress comes 'home': France holds its first WordCamp

Foreign Office finally switches to WordPress

Earlier this week, the Foreign Office rebuilt its blogs.fco.gov.uk site. It doesn’t look much different. But the screenshot above isn’t the significant one. The one below is. Yes, after some gentle encouragement on the pages of this blog, it’s great to see the Foreign Office moving off the Apache Roller blogging platform – What, you’ve … Continue reading Foreign Office finally switches to WordPress

When WordPress gets boring, things get interesting

[Thanks to @JonAkwue for suggesting a vastly improved headline for this piece…] The big moment of this year’s Word Up Whitehall came in the second presentation of the day: Gavin Dispain from the Department for Transport, telling the story of their hasty migration to WordPress. It was already clear that we were in very different … Continue reading When WordPress gets boring, things get interesting

Civil Service website moves to WordPress (at least for a bit)

I’m grateful to the GDS blog for pointing out something I’d missed last week: the relaunch of the main Civil Service corporate website, on none other than WordPress… albeit as an interim measure. the coincidence of impending changes to Civil Service recruitment processes and the end of the existing hosting contract for the site provided … Continue reading Civil Service website moves to WordPress (at least for a bit)

UKTI's TechCityUK site: 100 WordPress pages, £53k

TechCityUK.com is a website produced by UK Trade & Investment to promote the ‘entrepreneurial cluster’ of technology startups in the Shoreditch / Old Street area of east London. Judging by its blog, it launched on 19 July this year. Google currently reckons it has 89 pages. And according to an FOI response published this morning, … Continue reading UKTI's TechCityUK site: 100 WordPress pages, £53k

WordPress in proper English

If you’ve ever felt just a little, well, awkward with WordPress’s use of American (so-called) English – color, ‘uncategorized’ and so on – I’ve got frightfully good news for you. A brief exchange of tweets this morning between myself, Dave Coveney and Automattic’s Peter Westwood led to the creation of a proper localisation project, to … Continue reading WordPress in proper English

WordPress-based hosting solution in final stages of Cabinet Office cost-saving contest

It’s great to see some positive coverage of the Cabinet Office’s Innovation Launchpad process at the Telegraph today; and with it, a very positive writeup for a company we’ve been building a partnership with. CatN first came to my attention when their commercial director, Joe Gardiner blogged last year about how the Department for Transport could … Continue reading WordPress-based hosting solution in final stages of Cabinet Office cost-saving contest

Transport website relaunched on WordPress (not by us)

There’s a new website at the Department of Transport; and it’s running on WordPress. Sadly, it’s not one we’ve been involved with; we weren’t even approached, in fact. (I wonder why.) However, there are definite similarities with the work we’ve done for Defra; so we’ll console ourselves with the knowledge that we’ve at least been … Continue reading Transport website relaunched on WordPress (not by us)

Microsoft thanks WordPress for dropping IE6 support

As I noted here a while back, there could be bad news on the way for government people running WordPress sites: the next release of WordPress, version 3.2, will discontinue support for Internet Explorer version 6. Here’s how the new WP dashboard will look, courtesy of Automattic’s Jane Wells: Ouch. Now, Microsoft has published its … Continue reading Microsoft thanks WordPress for dropping IE6 support

New look for WordPress admin side: bad news for IE6 users

WordPress takes the ‘open’ in ‘open source’ very seriously: discussion of functionality and design changes happens in public, and it’s always possible to download and play around with the next version in its current form. Development work on version 3.2 (set for release at the end of June) is approaching completion, with a couple of … Continue reading New look for WordPress admin side: bad news for IE6 users