Google and Security Why is it time to be securing wordpress? Google is now ranking sites lower which don’t use HTTPS to secure their sites, and that includes sites that don’t handle sensitive data. Which could mean less traffic to your site! Additionally some customers at Development Matters have been alarmed that their wordpress websites […]
Preface to changing WordPress to UTF-8 Recently a WordPress database was changed to UTF-8. Changing the database character encoding was easy. However, the content of the database now showed strange and erroneous characters. The Patch To repair this, the following SQL code (bellow) was made to fix the wrong characters. It uses regular expression to replace the […]
It comes with great pleasure to announce another completed website. This time for Oliver Han. Oliver who is an excellent singer songwriter musician from Thailand based in London. Oliver Han’s music has a dreamy acoustic vibe and is great relaxation music. The website which can be found at here. The Design The brief for the […]
A close friend of DevMatters, and a great singer/actress: Paty Bermudez, has recently released a music video “Un Pajarito Me Dijo“. It goes without saying you should watch the video and listen to her wonderful voice! The Video “Un Pajarito Me Dijo“ The title: Un Pajarito Me Dijo which in English is: “A little birdy told […]
Vertically Align the Navigation… Recently a client requested a change in their company portfolio navigation. I thought on the outset this would be easy. However, it wasn’t quite easy as I had hoped. To cover the background: the site is a wordpress site, the portfolio is part of the proprietary theme, using a proprietary function to […]