BuddyPress powers new Civil Service community site
There's a new website in the civilservice.gov.uk domain - but because it's at a subdomain, of course, it doesn't count as a 'new' site. (That's an observation, not a criticism; I'm as guilty of doing...
View ArticleCode For The People presents: HMG’s Olympic & Paralympic media centre
The run-up to the Olympic Games starts in earnest today, with the arrival of the flame on British shores - and Whitehall is opening up its dedicated Government Olympic Communication operation,...
View ArticleCutting down on cookies: practical tips
The Government Digital Service's Implementer Guide for the new cookie rules recommended that site owners should audit their sites, and look to reduce 'unnecessary and redundant cookies'. With or...
View ArticleMick, Keef, Charlie, Ronnie – and us. Oh, and the Greatest 404 Page Of All Time.
I'm now into my 18th year earning a living building and running websites. I've been lucky enough to work for and with some household names. But never could I have imagined that I'd end up working for...
View ArticleCode For The People among only nine agencies with WordPress VIP accreditation
Big news today, if you're into this sort of thing: Automattic have just announced an extension of their WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner program(me). It used to be only for other technology...
View ArticleTwo projects make State Of The Word
Saturday saw the annual State Of The Word address by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, as part of WordCamp San Francisco. Worth taking an hour out to watch it, if you've got any interest in the...
View ArticleDept of Health’s eulogy for WordPress
I feel somewhat obliged to highlight the latest blog post by Stephen Hale, head of digital at the Dept of Health. As regular readers will know, Stephen switched the department's web publishing strategy...
View ArticleShifting sites: a new home for the Wales Office web presence
Regular readers will know the pivotal role played by the Wales Office in recent gov-web history. In 2007, they took the then-radical step of moving their corporate web presence into an open-source web...
View ArticleFacetious: CFTP’s Advanced Search plugin for WordPress
Out of the box: a Facetious widget in Twenty Ten We're proud to announce that Facetious, a plugin we've been working on for quite some time, has now been released in the official WordPress repository....
View ArticleUS develops shared, centrally-managed WP platform for government
Can't help but mention the sites.usa.gov project being run by the US General Services Administration, offering 'a shared service to help agencies focus on creating great content rather than on building...
View ArticleNew CERT-UK website will be shortlived
Maude at Sprint 14. Pic: gdsteam on Flickr If Puffbox was still on active service, it would already have brought to your attention the news that: 'The number of government websites is increasing...
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