A lovely shiny new version of WordPress – but don’t hit the update button! As ever I’ll be backing up and testing this major release to make sure there’s no interruption to service.

On 22 July I (and some other Cambridge-based WordPress experts, users and fanatics) will be running a “meet the experts” drop-in session at the Future Business Centre in Cambridge. The format of the session is to be determined, and more news is coming soon, but it’s likely to be an all day affair, helping people […]

Big changes are afoot! We’re currently in the process of becoming a limited company after 8 years of sole trading. In the short term, this means a few changes which we’ll be communicating by email – new bank details, new address and so on. There’s going to be a short transition period while I’m still […]

I’ve found a bug introduced to a common bit of code by a recent update to WordPress. It’s not exactly a bug in WordPress, it’s more a change to something a lot of people have been using for some time which breaks what we’re doing. The result for you may be that while you can […]

WordPress 4.2 is here! I’m currently testing (between keeping up with a huge workload at the moment – you may have seen on Twitter I’m looking for local developer to help out). Don’t worry for the moment about upgrading – most sites should upgrade automatically to the latest security release of 4.1, and I’ll move […]

I rarely take any time off. I think it’s been a couple of years since I took more than 4 concurrent days off for anything other than surgery or norovirus (and neither was particularly fun). But now it’s time! I’m getting married, and I have two whole weeks off. It does mean, however, that I’m […]

WordPress 4.0 has been released, but hold off on updating until it’s been fully tested!

Rare as it is here at Maltpress Towers to take any time off, it’s a wedding-crazy year in 2014 which means some time has already been booked! We’ll be unavailable on the following days: 25-26 June: I’ll be making a wedding cake for some friends! Emergency issues only on 25 June, and completely unavailable on […]