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Community News

New Communities, Life Stories & Improved Google Ranking

Thursday, 26th June, 2008 | Community News, Development, News | None

A busy fortnight has resulted in two new community blogs, Colglen and Jura, as well as the first entry in LifeStories, and a third community on the verge of joining our expanding network. One that site is up and running, we’re going to finish off the formatting of lifestories and then move onto the [...]

Collating Everyone’s News

Wednesday, 18th June, 2008 | Community News, Development, News | None

This week sees the launch of http://localnews.forargyll.com, another incremental step in the project’s ongoing collation of news stories and blog entries around and about Argyll.
This blog is entirely automated and collects stories from all the Argyll blogs to combine them in a 20 entry RSS feed for the OFTA front page which is refreshed [...]

Dashboard Gobbledegook

Wednesday, 4th June, 2008 | Community News, Development, Members, News | None

So some communities have been experiencing the following as a problem on their dashboard.

If you see this when you log in, please let Charles know and he’ll clean it out! charles [at] fyneside [dot] com

Twitpress

Wednesday, 28th May, 2008 | Community News, Development, News | Comments Off

I know, I know, this sounds odd, “TwitPress” – almost like “It’s blogging stoopid” or somesuch. No this is better.
The idea is that if any member of a community uses twitter.com, they can now post from their community blog to twitter. Why? To increase our readership. To improve our search engine ranking. To be fully [...]

An Updated Admin

Tuesday, 13th May, 2008 | Bug Hunt, Community News, Development, Top News | One

In our desire to trace the bug we have with the system we have upgraded to the latest and greatest version of WordPress. Everything is the same, and yet different. We apologise to everyone who may have been blind-sided by this, but we needed to get the WPMU working. Thus far it hasn’t worked, but [...]

WPMU Bug

Friday, 9th May, 2008 | Bug Hunt, Community News, Development | None

When is a page not a page? When it just will not save. We reckon this is a bug, but we are not sure what kind of bug it is. Could it be a problem with the WPMU layer? A conflict with one of the plugins? We are just not sure, so we’re testing things [...]