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Cutting down on cookies: practical tips
The Government Digital Service’s Implementer Guide for the new cookie rules recommended that site owners should audit their sites, and look to reduce ‘unnecessary and redundant cookies’. With or...
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Code For The People among only nine agencies with WordPress VIP accreditation
Big news today, if you’re into this sort of thing: Automattic have just announced an extension of their WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner program(me). It used to be only for other technology...
View ArticleTwo projects make State Of The Word
Saturday saw the annual State Of The Word address by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, as part of WordCamp San Francisco. Worth taking an hour out to watch it, if you’ve got any interest in the...
View ArticleShould we have another WordUp Whitehall?
Over the last couple of months, numerous people have got in touch to ask if there’s going to be another WordUp Whitehall this year. And although I didn’t initially think it was a good idea, I think...
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GDS climbdown on ‘F#@! IE6′ stance
In a post on the (then) Alphagov blog in April last year about design principles: Given it has 3.5% UK market share and Microsoft are trying to persuade everyone to shift off it, we assumed IE6 is dead...
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Failing to warm to the Kindle Fire
Pic from amazon.co.uk There can be few more blatant symbols of internet-powered globalisation than the appearance of ‘Black Friday’ sales in the UK. Personally, I’ve never let concerns about cultural...
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Facetious: CFTP’s Advanced Search plugin for WordPress
Out of the box: a Facetious widget in Twenty Ten We’re proud to announce that Facetious, a plugin we’ve been working on for quite some time, has now been released in the official WordPress repository....
View ArticleUS develops shared, centrally-managed WP platform for government
Can’t help but mention the sites.usa.gov project being run by the US General Services Administration, offering ‘a shared service to help agencies focus on creating great content rather than on building...
View ArticleOpen source didn’t exist until 2011
Puffbox emerges briefly from retirement to bring you an extract from Computer Weekly’s write-up of a somewhat confrontational appearance by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and DWP...
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Why I’ve resigned from WPUK
Last night I resigned from WPUK, the coordinating body which emerged from the organisation of the first few UK WordCamps. In 2008, I felt genuine excitement at the thought that the UK WordPress...
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