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• Save money by enabling your own WordPress skills
• Save time & frustration by bypassing the intensive WordPress manuals
• Gain technical confidence

Services

• WordPress Installation on my server or yours
• One-on-one WordPress training sessions. We sit together and I teach you how WordPress works
• Ongoing WordPress support
• Expert Seo tips and advice
• Result driven design tips and advice
• Essential WordPress plugin exposure
• WordPress In-house Custom built websites

You won’t be disappointed!

{code type = “php”}

$loop = new WP_Query( array(‘post_type’ => ‘melbourne’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3, ‘melbourneCategories’ => ‘designer’ ) );

while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();

the_title();
the_excerpt();

endwhile;

{/code}

Install imageMagick

Download and install instructions are here

Once imageMagick has been installed. The code below will resize all png files in the current directory to be 250px wide.

It will prepend “resize-” onto the file name of the newly generated images.

{code type = “shell”}for i in *.png; do convert $i -resize 250 resize-$i; done{/code}

But I dont like these crazy functions and plugins. I don’t want to fight wordpress. So my solution is a lot more passive.

To be honest 90% of the time i have no trouble with the wordpress auto formatting. I bang in my content an off i go. Most of the time.

Pages that do cause problems however, just take the margins and formatting off the p tags with a little css. WordPress will still wrap just about everything in a paragraph tag, but it wont have any effect.

{code type = “css”}

.page-id-10 #content .entry p { margin-bottom: 0; }

{/code}

Let me take you through the work flow.

I installed wordpress on the girls laptop so they could have a play on the local machine. This allowed them to keep the current MSQM site up for the public whilst they developed the new site in wordpress locally.

After all the modifications and content added had been added to the Architectos theme, it was time to push the site live. This is where I came back into the picture. Wp Melbourne to the rescue!

But we had some trouble. Doh! We found the blue host (hosting company) control panel to be way too confusing and unawesome to use. The Solution: Wp Melbourne Hosting! So now the new MSQM site lives happily on the WordPress Melbourne server, and its running like a dream.

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I recently changed the directory that one of my WordPress sites was in.
For SEO Reasons i thought “websites-melbourne” is a much more semantic directory name then “pixelstormv5″.

I followed the method listed on the wordpress codex Moving WordPress and everything went smoothly. Except my images were not visible. All my images where hardcoded in using custom fields with relative urls. eg:
{code type=php}/pixelstormv5/images/website-05.jpg.{/code}

So the problem was the image path needed to be changed on each individual post. Changing 187 image paths manually is time intensive. I try to avoid manual alterations like this and went searching for a more dynamic way.

Here is that dynamic way.

Access your database via php myAdmin. Click the SQL button. Now do a SQL find and replace using the below code.

Find and replace meta data in the mysql database.

{code type=php}update TABLE_NAME set FIELD_NAME = replace(FIELD_NAME, ‘find this string’, ‘replace found string with this string’);{/code}

As i mentioned before. I use custom fields for all my image paths.

So all my image paths are in the table “wp_postmeta” table of the database. Therefore, my script looked like this.

{code type=php}update wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,”pixelstormv5″,”websites-melbourne”);{/code}

Click go and let the script run. If it worked. the Script just saved you hours of frustrating manual adjustments. And was far more accurate then a human could be. Computers don’t get distracted and start day dreaming of more enjoyable tasks.

• The domain name has been purchased and the domain name server is pointing to the correct location (your hosting space).
• The hosting space has been setup and has the ability to create at least one Mysql database.

The Parental Animations website below is a real world example of what can be accomplished in just one hour of website training with WordPress.
It’s a pretty good starting point for a website on a budget.

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Well, some of them can test you. They will test your time, your patience and your knowledge of WordPress. Remember many themes come with access to a forum. But often support these kaotic forums are scary and its hard to get the support you require.

The High Art Theme is one of those drop dead gorgeous WP themes that comes with a couple advanced techniques ingrained into its core. It expects everyone to have a certain level of knowledge in order to use the theme as advertised.

I’m here for those who don’t want to spent the time working things out. I can show you how. Provide wordpress and theme specific training. Its quick, it’s painless, its friendly and effective.

Below is the HighArt theme which i got know quit intimately whilst working through a few customizations for “Girl Printer” Carolyn Fraser.

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