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WordPress powers over 35% of the top 100million websites in 2020 it’s Open Source and available to anyone for free, and it’s one of the most talked about software projects in the world. On this site Tim talks about WordPress concepts, tutorials and videos focusing on more niche aspects of running a WordPress site, be it in a large enterprise environment or a small vanity site.

Going Beyond Unit Tests – WordCamp London 2015

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WordCamp London has been brilliant, but I’m shattered, so have thrown up the slides here For WordCamp London 2015 I talked about testing tools, that go beyond doing unit tests, which not only help in different situations but at least for me are more interesting and dare I say it fun. It’s really interesting giving […]

WordCamp London 2015 – Photos

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The food, the people, the atmosphere as well as the amazing talks, volunteers and speakers WordCamp London was a fantastic success. This is the first batch of my pictures from day 1, mostly unedited, I have another batch sitting to be edited, so if you don’t see a picture of yourself don’t worry it may […]

Random Mutterings: Websockets, Mechanising stuff and looking at Stats

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How did it get to March so quickly? If things have gone to plan, this post was scheduled to go out on Monday/Tuesday and I’m probably already on paternity leave and taking some time of to meet my daughter. Which given the lack of posts it might be hard to notice the difference between taking […]

2015 Predictions for WordPress and Beyond

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So 2014 has been a pretty awesome year for WordPress, PHP and all the stuff I talk about here on this blog. 2015 is looking to be even more interesting, so here are a few of my predictions for major talking points in 2015. Let’s start with the negative one, which is security. 2014 has […]

What’s GHOST got to do with WordPress

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Last week a new rather scary and serious vulnerability appeared effecting most Linux systems, nicknamed GHOST because while it relates to glibc library it specifically can be targeted through getHostName used by many high level programming languages including PHP. If this is the first you heard of this, and you manage a Linux server go […]

Respect your conference Volunteers and speakers

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I’m really sad to announce that I am no longer going to be speaking at WordCamp Birmingham UK. I know my appearance has been advertised via the WPUK website and from a link on the WordCamp Birmingham site. However this was published prior to the official “you are accepted” email which only arrived last Thursday […]

Automating WordPress with WP-CLI and Shell Scripts

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This is the third part of our WP-CLI video tutorials in which we will focus on Shell Scripting and WP-CLI. In previous videos we have introduced a few basic scripts but we will take it further to show how we can use tools within the command line to automate and manipulate WP-CLI. From storing data […]

My WordPress Development Workflow

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I love reading about people’s workflows, and each time I read about someone else’s setup I take something away. I’m inspired by folks who spend half their day at standing tables (not inspired enough to actually give standing a go mind you) and who have built contraptions to aid their day. Yet workflow is about […]

Extending WP-CLI

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Extending WP-CLI
Tim starts to use WP-CLI to launch external scripts and to extend plugins using WP-CLI in this screencast, done with the backing of his Patreon Patrons. This is the second of a multi-part series on WP-CLI for timnash.co.uk

Wanted Organiser for WordPress Leeds

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Tim is turning over the overlordship of WordPress Leeds, and is looking for volunteers to take over and run one of the UK oldest user groups.

Important WordPress 4.0.1 go update!

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Fail2Ban with WordPress

WordPress 4.0.1 has been released and is a security release, please update your sites as soon as possible, want to know why? Well watch as Tim explains why you should be updating right now.

Getting Started with WP-CLI

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getting-started-wp-cli-video
Tim introduces WP-CLI and shows some quick examples of how you can use it in this screencast, done with the backing of his Patreon Patrons. This is the first of a multi-part series on WP-CLI for timnash.co.uk