Blog Posts Tagged `web development`

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QWeb Ltd launches Wordpress Admin Country Allowlist plugin

We host a number of Wordpress websites, and we manage servers for other agencies hosting Wordpress websites too. Out of the box, Wordpress isn't exact...

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Creating Wordpress admin users directly via the database

For a multitude of reasons, we don't often pick Wordpress as a suitable platform when developing new websites, but we do often migrate existing Wordpr...

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QWeb Ltd launches new exchange rates API

Back in 2014 I wrote a post about a rate exchange API that did a decent job replacing a Google service which had shut down the prior November. A year...

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Reading from a Facebook page with PHP

This is an old post and Facebook have since closed access to their XML feeds. It's still possible to access Facebook content via their APIs which we'l...

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Reading from a Twitter feed with PHP

This is an old post and Twitter's API is no longer freely accessible. We've kept it though, because it might still be useful to somebody....

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Setting up a Barclaycard ePDQ account to use with Egg Basket

Barclaycard ePDQ is one of the easiest payment gateways to integrate into a website, but the merchant panel is a little overwhelming at first and, wit...

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Setting up a Paypal account to use with an IPN enabled shopping cart

Paypal is one of the nicest platforms to take online payments through. A developer can build Paypal integration in to just about any website relativel...

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Alternative to Google's currency conversion API

This is an old post about a service that's since been discontinued. We've kept it though, because some of the attached comments might still be useful...

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Wordpress plugins tutorial

This week's tutorial covers Wordpress plugins. Wordpress is an out of the box development environment which was originally used as a blogging and CMS...

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How to install Sphinx on CentOS

Sphinx is a search engine that you can use instead of directly accessing your databases. The concept is quite simple, you tell Sphinx how to create in...

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Google maps

Google Maps is one of the most effective interactive map tools available on the web. Its most basic implementation is quite simple, however to give it...

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Caching: A quick effective way to speed up your site

While caching is becoming slightly less popular due to the forever increasing speed of networks, it can still be useful for both mobile data and slow...

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