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New Job Title: Andy Killen is CTO of SpeckyBoy design Magazine

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Today the 23rd of February 2011, Andy Killen the Owner of Phat Reaction was also appointed as CTO of SpeckyBoy Design Magazine. SpeckyBoy has around 2million visits per month and around 40,000 active regular readers, and currently ranks 2900 on Alexa.

It is Andy’s tasks to make the website significantly faster and exploit more features of wordpress and social networking to raise the profile of Speckyboy and thus the SEO, PageRank and Alexa rank.

Quoting Andy: “I’m really very happy with this opportunity to make an already successful website in the way of content more successful in the way of technology. I will be pushing to put SpeckyBoy in to the top 250 websites of the world”

We should be going live with the new version of the SpeckyBoy theme this weekend, so do watch for the first round of speed changes.

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Attributed with developing another wordpress plugin

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

Due to having to create multi-language sites we constantly come up against that shortfall within other peoples plugins. Most people just don’t need any other language than English, where as us being based in Holland need to have at least English and Dutch.

This time it was the was the turn of WP Email Login that we translated in to dutch after first making the plugin localized. Many thanks to Beau of Automattic/Wordpress fame for including us on the list of developers.

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New Article, this time about supporting wordpress plugin developers.

Friday, January 14th, 2011

I’ve been busy again, this time creating an article about the lack of support from the wordpress community towards plugin developers, especially in this changing time of wordpress being #1 CMS and moving to 60million + users.

As ever I’ve put it out through speckyboy.com as I like the way that their articles are aimed at the common man and not at the designer elite in a self back scratching kinda way. Here take a read http://speckyboy.com/2011/01/13/do-we-do-enough-to-support-wordpress-plugin-developers/

Hopefully it will raise the issue with Automattic the makers of wordpress as the support needs are really outweighing the benefits of creating a product to go in their plugins set, if that plugin becomes popular in any way.

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New Plugin Release, Easy iFrame Loader

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

We were finding that many of our clients wanted to be able to add iFrames to wordpress pages, but were finding that it would only stay there if HTML mode was the only one used. If they entered visual mode on the editor then it would automatically delete the iframe.

So we have created an iFrame loader so that it will stay. Not only that we have created it so that it loads the iFrame using Javascript using the window.onload function. This means that the iFrame will not load at all until the complete page has downloaded. This is better because often an external iFrame will be the cause of a page failing to load quickly.

After tesing on Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE, Flock and Opera, we released the plugin via wordpress. See the easy iframe loader plugin page for more information

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