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We primarily use two technologies in Web Development here at Matter Solutions.

WordPress Web Development

Looking for expert WordPress website development in Brisbane? Matter Solutions is here to enhance your website with new and additional features, but our strategic approach means we're always thinking about, and advocating for, your users. Will this new feature add value, or could it slow things down and detract in some way.

Okay, we've found a feature that we're confident will add-value to your website. What next?

Our experienced team specialises in developing custom functionality to improve user experience (UX), boost performance, and meet your evolving business needs.

We have extensive experience ensuring your WordPress site stays ahead of the curve:-

  • Integrating existing advanced (free and) premium plugins, e.g. GravityForms, GravityView, ACF Pro and WPML and many more.
  • Optimising for speed - a serious part of Technical SEO too.
  • Adding unique capabilities with custom plugins just for you.

Laravel Web Development

Laravel empowers a number of excellent features, we've used it for clients in the following ways with great success:-

  1. Rapid Development - Migrating a legacy MVCC system, i.e. Code Igniter into Laravel, and FuelPHP into Laravel.
  2. Prototyping - Building a system using an Agile Methodology to create the shape, and structure and functionality desired by an entrepreneur.
  3. Support + Maintenance + Development - Actively troubleshoot, maintain (with upgrades etc) and support a cohort of users, and incrementally improve the system over time.

The testimonial from Katrina at Ontex refers directly to all three services here.

Other Web Developer Technologies

It is worth noting that we have extensive experience with systems admin.

This includes primary technologies stacks and what we call "equivalent technologies" that can be swapped in place instead of specific components to improve functionality, performance or both.

  • LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
  • Docker - Developing on portable virtual machines
  • NGINX + PHP-FPM & Varnish Cachine
  • MariaDB - instead of MySQL
  • Percona XtraDB - for running clustered databases which directly replace MySQL
  • MongoDB - NoSQL when appropriate

We're also have skills with foundational server and sysadmin technologies:-

  • WPCLI - WordPress' own scripting tool for command line management
  • PHP - command line based scripting, used for automation
  • Selenium - for automation of web browsers, e.g. for testing and repetitive tasks
  • Bash scripts, usually for server management
  • Perl scripts - great for text processing

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Articles about Web Development

October 22, 2013
Execute WordPress Shortcode from PHP

Sometimes when building themes we need to execute shortcode directly from php. This can be for things such as Forms, Sliders, Gallery’s etc. Below is the code needed. Replace the code between the ‘ and ‘ marks with your own.

October 21, 2013
Magento "Cannot add or update a child row" Report Event

Had an issue on a clients Magento site today. The site was moved from one server to current one a few weeks back. Today our system alerted us to 500 errors being […]

October 16, 2013
CentOS - Disable Firewall

For whatever reason, sometimes you need to disable the firewall on your CentOS server. Below is the code necessary that you can run in SSH to disable the firewall. For IPv4 […]

October 9, 2013
To Grep or not to Grep

A client's website (of 3000 pages) has recently seen 1.3 Million pages indexed. We need to hunt for the reasons why and the fastest solution is actually to go through the […]

September 30, 2013
IBM M8837-35M Ethernet Drivers

Recently had an issue when installing some servers we purchased as a bulk lot. They are IBM 8837 15M & IBM 8837 35M servers. One of which we needed to install a Windows 2003 DEV environment onto. Unfortunately finding that

May 22, 2013
AJAX Cross Domain

Today I came across an issue when trying to load a JSON file via an AJAX call to a subdomain of the site I was working on. After trying various work around with the JavaScript […]