Reclaimed wood kitchens
Wood is an incredibly durable resource and in centuries past reclaiming wood was common practice. By reclaiming and recycling wood we can reduce the demand on the world's forests yet satisfy the growing demand for wood furniture and furnishings.
NCM Carpentry is a company in Cambridgeshire that make reclaimed wood kitchens and furniture. Reclaimed pine kitchens create a traditional country or rustic feel and are environmentally friendly. The natural ageing of reclaimed pine gives your kitchen colour and character that is difficult to achieve with new timber.
The NCM Carpentry website was built using Wordpress.
Fiftyone – Cambridge Bed and Breakfast
We recently completed a website for the new "Fiftyone" bed and breakfast in cambridge. To get something up very quickly was the most important requirement so we proposed making a straight-forward Wordpress template based site with some text, photos, and contact details. This simplicity meant that the website could be developed quickly and as a result it could be delivered at a cost that the client was very happy with.
Getting a good looking, functional website up quickly at low cost is a good first step - and once the B&B becomes established we can work to develop it further.
Websites for research and academia
Wordpress is an impressive platform that offers so much more than blog-capabilities.
There are plugins that provide forums, calendars, member profiles and RSS feed imports, to name just a few. The ability to easily customise the front page and the ability to define a mix of static and dynamic pages as well as easily customise navigation menus and widgets means that you can pretty much create any type of website in a matter of hours. Coupled with the amount of professional looking free or paid-for themes that are available for download - it becomes an offer you can't afford to ignore.
To the client this means that they get
- a professional looking wesite
- a website with advanced features and that is secure
- a website where they have complete control over the content
- a website that works extremely well from a search-engine point of view
- a website based on a widely used open-source platform written in the popular language PHP
- and last but not least a website that is very cheap.
For these reasons we are currently developing a site based on Wordpress for a research initiatve at the University of Cambridge. The website will be used to provide some static informational pages describing the research initiative, to publish news and events, pull in some RSS feeds and have a member register and a community forum in order to promote interworking between groups at the University.
All these capabilities can be delivered within a week and at a very low budget thanks to the stability and extensibility of the Wordpress platform.
If you have any thoughts or queries about how we could offer the same for you - please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Disabling new user email notifications in Wordpress
Sometimes there is a need to disable the email that is automatically sent to newly registered users. One example might be if you are setting up new users in your blog and don't want these new users to be notified until the data-entry has been completed.
This can be done by modifying the file /wp-includes/pluggable.php. Locate the function wp_new_user_notification(). This starts on line 1144 in Wordpress version 2.8.5.
function wp_new_user_notification($user_id, $plaintext_pass = '') {
$user = new WP_User($user_id);
$user_login = stripslashes($user->user_login);
$user_email = stripslashes($user->user_email);
$message = sprintf(__('New user registration on your blog %s:'), get_option('blogname')) . "\r\n\r\n";
$message .= sprintf(__('Username: %s'), $user_login) . "\r\n\r\n";
$message .= sprintf(__('E-mail: %s'), $user_email) . "\r\n";
@wp_mail(get_option('admin_email'), sprintf(__('[%s] New User Registration'), get_option('blogname')), $message);
if ( empty($plaintext_pass) )
return;
$message = sprintf(__('Username: %s'), $user_login) . "\r\n";
$message .= sprintf(__('Password: %s'), $plaintext_pass) . "\r\n";
$message .= wp_login_url() . "\r\n";
wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__('[%s] Your username and password'), get_option('blogname')), $message);
}
Simply comment out the last line to disable the email..
// wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__('[%s] Your username and password'), get_option('blogname')), $message);