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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

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 […]

May 18, 2015
WordCamp Brisbane Announcement

Hooray! It’s almost time for WordCamp Brisbane – a weekend of networking, web fun and seriously cool speakers covering every WordPress topic you could possibly imagine! For the weekend of May […]

February 21, 2014
25 Questions you HAVE to ask your web designer

If you’re in business, you’ll need a website. Want to avoid nasty surprises down the road? Make sure you and your web designer are a match made in heaven BEFORE you […]

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 […]

March 29, 2013
WordCamp Melbourne coming up fast!

Where did all that time go? It seems like quite a while since Matter Solutions decided to be a community sponsor of WordCamp Melbourne 2013. If you haven't got your ticket […]