Linux and PHP web application support and development (Bromsgrove, UK)

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Why you want to upgrade from PHP5.6 to 7.0

Here’s why it’s a good idea …. (The server was upgraded on the 23rd of May. The graph shows CPU time – where yellow is idle and blue+green are used/busy).

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Integrating a Google drive spreadsheet with WordPress

Recently, the Bromsgrove Hockey club asked if they could show upcoming matches / fixtures / results on their website. Here’s a short summary of how we integrated Google Drive/Docs Spreadsheets with WordPress.

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Flashbak.com – new wordpress based image gallery site

A new wordpress site we’ve architect-ed has just gone live – Flashbak.com

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Spam detection / tagging for a forum

One customer has a forum which has been consistently plagued by spam – here’s a short writeup about what we found worked for us in an initial attempt at reducing the tidal wave of spam.

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Varnish for WordPress Performance

How to improve WordPress/Apache performance on a relatively heavily loaded server using Varnish and more

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New website

So, we’ve just changed our website… why? The previous website was based on Drupal, but an outdated / now unsupported version, which would at some point probably give us maintenance problems. By moving to WordPress we move to something we have more day-to-day experience with The new theme has HTML5 elements within it (header, footer, […]

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WordPress Performance Case Study

Background A WordPress site we maintain had one page (warning: some of the pages/images may offend) displaying a large number of posts (they all happen to be galleries) using the nextgen-gallery plugin. The Problem The page in question, on each load, would perform a query on posts within a specified category, and display them inline. […]

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