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LA Marketing goes to Manchester

Social Media, Websites, Wordpress, Workshops & Upcoming Events

On Friday 16th July Alison & Frankie will be attending the 2010 WordCamp. This year LA Marketing & Design are proud to be bronze sponsors of the event to be held in Manchester. WordCamp is held over 2 days and is an informal annual gathering of WordPress publishers, designers and developers based in the United Kingdom. It’s always good to keep up with the latest developments and discuss ideas with like minded people.

How to expand tables within Wordpress (for non-developer type people)

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Rows + Columns = Tables

For every web developer/designer, we all know that it is fairly simple to create a table using a bit of html, and the issue can sometimes be that the clients do not. This became an issue recently when one of our clients wanted to update the website themselves, and add tables as they pleased.  Of course, we can always do it on their behalf, but of course this then defeats the point of having software whereby they have the opportunity to manage it themselves.

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Spam Comments on my Blog

Blogging, Wordpress, Wordpress Top Tips

So you’ve got your Wordpress Blog but you are having a problem with Spam comments. One obvious route you may take is to stop people from commenting altogether. Now on the face of it this may seem to be a reasonable step to take but you would be defeating the point of having a Blog. (more…)

Booking Calendar Plugin

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If you have ever spent time looking for a plugin for your Wordpress site you’ll know that while there are lots out there it’s not always very easy looking for the right one. What you find may not be easy to use or you may not actually find one that does all that you want it to do. (more…)

Useful Plugin for your Wordpress Categories

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My Category Order

My Category Order

As a fellow Wordpress web designer, I found myself searching for a plugin to help organise certain categories in the sidebar. I didn’t want to exclude or order the categories via the code, as I knew that at some point the customer might want to do this for themselves, so my search began. The plugin which I found is called ‘My Category Order’, I found it extremely easy to use and will definitely use it again on other websites. Please follow the link to download and start using it.