Learn, Share & Grow with WordPress
This blogsite supports and documents the key topics covered in our popular Auckland WordPress User Group meetups. Here you’ll find tips to help you build a better WordPress website or business.
Want to know what WordPress is and how it started? Here’s an interview with the founder Matt Mullenweg back in 2010. We spoke with Matt on his recent tour and can confirm he’s one of the nicest and most giving entrepreneurs in the technology sector…
The covid lockdowns affected countless meetups across the world. New Zealand wasn’t an exception. However it did give rise to the growth of online meetings using zoom and other toolsets. With that in mind, we’re working through a revised meetup group, not just for Auckland, but New Zealand.
More details coming soon. In the meantime, if you have questions or believe you can assist in some way, contact us via our own website. https://wordhost.co.nz/wordpress-meetups/
We are excited to announce WordCamp Auckland 2017 – a conference that celebrates all aspects of WordPress.
This year the event is being held at GridAKL, Wynyard Quarter in Auckland’s CBD and has a range of local and international speakers, on a wide range of different topics.
If you’ve been to our meetups in the past – you will be familiar with some of the speakers already, but there is lots of great content and friendly faces to meet.
WordCamp Auckland organisers are looking for:
Find out more today at https://2017.auckland.wordcamp.org. Tickets are only $50 for the weekend!
Recently Jim Stewart, an SEO colleague from Melbourne set up a special 30-day intro course for bloggers to improve search traffic to their site. www.bloggersseo.com
At a recent WordCamp event in the US (the biggest ever), a developer from Automattic, the owners of WordPress, outlined the issues people have when selecting a theme. We’ve touched on these issues ourselves, but this video went into some detail. He provides thoughtful advice for both users and developers.
If you’re struggling with that new theme you purchased, contact us using the form below. We’ve set up hundreds of WordPress sites and themes. What can often take you days of effort and research, we can usually do in a couple hours – Letting you can focus upon content and the message.
Annual talk from the WordPress Founder
Source: 7 Steps to more website traffic
Updated for October 2015
Updated Sept 2015 – Hosting is a complex, contentious topic. Even the self-proclaimed ‘professionals’ disagree. Web designers, IT people and even developers are often surprisingly ignorant upon what makes a good or bad host. They tend to just follow the crowd, relying upon others. This is a frank, honest account from a tertiary-qualified engineer who has been working on line and used over 100 host providers since 1998.
I’ve provided a summary below of the main types used today.
This is where computing resources are shared amongst multiple domains and users. This can range from 100 to 1,000, with 500 commonplace. Think of shared hosting as riding on an old, overcrowded Indian commuter train, except you’ve no idea how may others have boarded the same train. Generally the cheaper the monthly [host] cost, the more commuters you’re sharing the ride with, the more delays, the slower it runs…
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