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Get the most from your WordPress Website

WordPress has been the main Content Management System (CMS) we've used since 2008.

WP - Just for blogging?

At that the time WordPress 2.7 was considered to be "just for blogs" but it was clearly a very good option for building regular business websites, with particular configuration options that turned it from primarily blogging to handling pages in a hierarchy.

Custom WordPress coding

Right from the start clients wanted custom WordPress functionality and with years of experience in PHP Ben (our founder) began customising websites and learning what now is called the WordPress way. This WordPress Way means that websites can be customised and the code added so that it doesn't prevent the core, and other plugins from being upgraded and improved over time. It is also referred to as being "pluggable", this is a clear feature that distinguishes a novice from an expert in terms of WordPress coding... and the big warning sign comes if your web designer tells you NOT to update a plugin, or core!

WordPress & SEO

As far back as 2008 Ben wrote blog posts about WordPress SEO, based on Technical SEO principals that we still use today (in 2024).

Services

Our primary business services revolve around WordPress

Posts

Below are blog posts about WordPress Design, WordPress Custom Development and WordPress SEO.

Articles about WordPress

November 23, 2016
3 Things You Can Do Right Now To Speed Up Your WordPress Website So It Purrs Like A Kitten

WordPress is a great platform for those who want to design a WordPress website without needing to be an experienced web developer. However, it’s very easy to run into problems, such […]

September 25, 2016
3 Terrible Mistakes That Most Lone Web Designers Don't Even Realise They're Making

So there I was standing at the bar with fellow attendees after day one of WordCamp Sydney, it was Saturday night, Matter Solutions had helped with extending the bar tab, everyone […]

May 12, 2016
Announcing MatterKit an open source WordPress theme framework

Hannah, our lead web developer, spoke at WordCamp Sunshine Coast - May 6th-8th 2016 about the WordPress theme framework we've been building for almost a year. She talked about the major […]

May 9, 2016
WordPress Security Update; What it means for you

Urgent Security Vulnerabilities. Coder: Last night, WordPress released a security update (4.5.2) for WordPress Core exposing and addressing a major security flaw for third party plugins for media uploading. Attackers use […]

May 29, 2015
WordCamp Presentation. Wouldn't life be better without clients?

Ben's presentation about working with and getting the most out of your life building websites for clients. Looking at his experiences, some good, some bad, working through tasks for clients and trying […]

June 5, 2013
Not Receiving Emails From WordPress Forms

We recently had a client who had this problem. Here's how we fixed it. Emails weren't being sent to him from WordPress and as such he was missing most of his […]