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My interests and experience with WordPress

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Doug Lawrence with Mike Little WordPress co-founder at one of his training courses at Madlab in ManchesterI'm an intermediate WordPress user particularly interested in creating multilingual websites with WordPress.

 

 

Being based in the UK my introduction to deeper WordPress usage was  the Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, and the WordPress Birmingham (UK) Monthly meetup group

I run about 20 WordPress sites, in up to five languages,  using multisite hosted by the Pressjitsu and developed with assistance from Very Twisty.

I have attended several WordPress courses given by Mike at MadLab in Manchester.

I have spoken at WordCamp UK Lancaster 2013  about Going Global with WordPress.

I have attended WordCamp Russia in Moscow twice.

Setting Arabic WordPress locale

July 14, 2013 By Doug Lawrence

Arabic WordPress language files

These are the steps I went through with the help of Ben Huson to: 1) Set the locale of my Arabic site on my English language Multisite 2) Install the Arabic languages files on my English WordPress Multisite 3) ‘Activate’ the rtl style sheet for the front end of the Arabic website Set the locale […]

Filed Under: Arabic | العربية, Multilingual WordPress Tagged With: rtl

Going Global with WordPress presentation WCUK 2013

July 14, 2013 By Doug Lawrence

Going global with WordPress

I was delighted to deliver a presentation WCUK 2013 Going Global with WordPress 20130708 today during WordCamp Lancaster UK 2013 at Lancaster University. I wanted the presentation to facilitate discussion which it did despite a large audience. They were very kind to me 😉 and from feedback during and afterwards I learnt a lot more about making […]

Filed Under: Multilingual WordPress

Setting WordPress Multisite Locale

July 13, 2013 By Doug Lawrence

Setting WordPress Multisite Locale

I’m running an English install of WordPress multisite with a few sites in languages other than English. I was dismayed see that multisite appeared to set the locale to en_US (English for the United States) for these non-English sites.     Mike Little helped me to implement the following code to fix this: <?php add_filter(‘locale’,’sitename_locale’); function sitename_locale($locale){ […]

Filed Under: Multilingual WordPress

‘Interconnect IT’ Lego Twitter-Skittle dispenser WordCamp UK 2012

July 18, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

Interconnect IT built an automatic Twitter-Lego-Skittle dispenser at WordCamp UK 2012, which was activated by tweeting a hash tag. Great for geeks who are more interested in the Twitter integration that the Skittles, as you can see by the number uneaten Skittles lying in the collection tray!

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: Skittles, WordCamp UK 2012

Creating a custom 404 Page on douglawrence.org, using PHP and HTML

April 19, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

I’ve been spending way too much time recently on the ‘work-in-progress’ www.douglawrence.org website. So when I came across a custom 404 theme ‘Lost in Space – Error 404’ (by adraft) on ThemeForest, I couldn’t resist downloading and customising it to work with my website.  It’s the best $4 I’ve ever spent. douglawrence.org is based on a WordPress theme called […]

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: Adobe Dreamweaver, Custom 404 page, HTML, HTTP 404, NASA picture, ThemeForest

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