WordCamp is an informal gathering of WordPress users and enthusiasts, who, like us, enjoy meeting other likeminded people.

The event boasts a range of experienced speakers, ensuring a captivated audience year in and year out.

With presentations like ‘WordPress for Noobs’ it’s an event you don’t want to miss = )

WordCamp kicks off on the 21st of July at the beautiful University of Sydney on their main Camperdown/Darlington campus and runs for two days.

Cya there!

Home of WordCamp 2012 – 2012.sydney.wordcamp.org
Session Information – 2012.sydney.wordcamp.org/sessions
Speakers – 2012.sydney.wordcamp.org/speakers
Venue – 2012.sydney.wordcamp.org/venue

Well, this was a no brainer considering we love helping the WordPress community, so we happily accepted.

The event will be held on Nov 5th and 6th 2011 at Bond University and is looking like it will be jam packed full of awesome guest speakers, such as Troy Dean, Stephen Cronin and Dan Milward (and many more…)

We’ll have a small presence at the event, but mainly just to socialise and mingle :)

Make sure you check out the WordCamp Gold Coast website for more details!

We’re also installing a new phone system so please be patient while we implement this over the next few days, just in case we have any hiccups with our telco. :)

• Quarterly
• Semi-Annually (6 months)
• Biennially (2 years)
• Triennially (3 years)

Thank you to all business clients who provided this feedback.  We hope this makes it easier on your accounts department! :)

Our last iPod giveaway was a while ago now and we’re itching to give something away, so we’re going to be giving you the opportunity to win a brand new 4GB iPod Shuffle in polished stainless steel. OoOohhh, shiny!

The iPod will be engraved with our website address just in case you ever need a reminder :P

All you have to do to enter is follow @wphaustralia and tweet the following:

WordPress Hosting Australia are giving away another iPod.  Visit http://wordpresshosting.com.au/blog for details. #wphcomp

We’ll be running this competition from 26/05/2010 to 25/06/2010.  The winner will be notified by email and receive their prize by express post.

*Australian residents only.

]]> http://wphosting.com.au/blog/2010/05/26/ipod-shuffle-competition-show-us-your-tweets/feed/ 1 http://wphosting.com.au/blog/2010/05/21/new-wph-affiliate-and-partner-programs/ http://wphosting.com.au/blog/2010/05/21/new-wph-affiliate-and-partner-programs/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 20:59:49 +0000 WP Hosting Team http://wordpresshosting.com.au/?p=202 Yes we know, it’s about time! Due to popular demand we’ve released our new WPH Affiliate and Partner Programs.

Being an affiliate is a hassle free way of earning some commission for your referrals, which can be withdrawn to Paypal, bank deposit or used for hosting payments.

Partners are usually businesses who would like to on-sell our services to their clients. Many businesses simply don’t have the time and resources available to maintain their own servers and network infrastructure. Our managed service eliminates the hassle and worry and instead gives Partners a great service to compliment their own product and services.

Details can be found on the Partner and Affiliate information page.

Let’s say we want to make 2 kinds of templates for pages.  Perhaps one page has the page heading and one does not (however you can change pretty much anything you want as long you keep the header, sidebar and footer references).

First of all, make a duplicate of the index.php or page.php file and rename it to something like page2.php (can be anything really).

Now this is the important bit to let WordPress know the template exists.  You will need to add the following code to the very top of the file:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Page 2
*/
?>

Now make the changes to the template and save it in your template directory.  You can do things like remove sidebars, change content sizing, etc…

Login to WordPress (any current version) and select the page you wish to use the template for.  You will now notice a template section in your edit page (or quick edit) where you can select from available templates for that page.  Select the template and save your page.

Easy as that!

Entering the competition couldn’t be easier, simply help us promote WordPress Hosting by writing a blog post or placing a link on your blog or website, then email us with a link to your site to show off your handy work.

Link code: <a href=”http://wordpresshosting.com.au”>Wordpress Hosting Australia</a>

You are not required to have your blog or website hosted with us to enter.

We will randomly pick one lucky poster when the draw closes on the 31st August 2009.

Now we only have one of these beauties to give away so don’t muck around, start linking! :)

EDIT: Competition is now closed.  Congratulations to Matthew Walker from WLM Financial Services.

Download your plugin from somewhere like WordPress.

Fire up your FTP software and navigate to the folder wp-content/plugins.

Unzip your plugin and drag it to the wp-content/plugins folder in your FTP program.

Once uploaded, login to your admin section of worpress by going to http://yourdomain.com.au/wp-admin.

Once logged in click on plugins in the top right hand side of your browser window.

Now select your plugin and click activate.

Now your plugin will be in the active section.  You will be able to change the settings of most plugins by going to the menu section set out in the plugin instructions.

Happy Blogging!

Wordpress Hosting Staff.