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Here’s a quick way to run a petition in WordPress

James Davis — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:01:20 +0000

I’ve written a short and simple plugin that embeds a web based petition into your WordPress page or post. Signatures are confirmed by e-mail and the administrative interface allows for customization along with deletion and exporting of signatures. Learn more now.

Software Freedom International’s Summit

James Davis — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:58:24 +0000

On Saturday I met (and had the pleasure of photographing) members of Software Freedom International‘s board at the end of their three day summit in Oxford where they discussed issues affecting Software Freedom Day. Some interesting discussions were held on OpenStreetMap, the involvement of open source in e-voting, the problem of language in inviting worldwide participation and the use of free software in education. If I brought one thing out of the experience it would be seeing people with a wide range of thoughts on free and open software putting aside any differences to further awareness of software freedom.

Release of WordPress 2.1

James Davis — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:12:09 +0000

WordPress 2.1, upon which our hosting is based and this site is already running, has been released in the last few minutes2.1 is the first major release since 2.0 was released almost a year ago and contains several new features:

Auto-save of Drafts
Better Image Upload Handling
New Visual Editor Interface
Built in spell checking

After a short period of testing we shall be upgrading all sites to WordPress 2.1.

FreeCharity.org.uk mentioned in Spring’s Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Journal

James Davis — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:10:57 +0000

FreeCharity.org.uk, through their work with Pembsdoe.org.uk has been mentioned in the Award Journal’s article on the use of blogging in the award scheme. Further information on our blog and web hosting can be found here.

Sea Trust Blog

James Davis — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:40:34 +0000

FreeCharity.org.uk welcomes the Sea Trust Blog to our list of hosted sites. Sea Trust was formed as the marine arm of the south west Wales Wildlife Trust. Sea Trust volunteers survey monitor and record marine life off the coast of Pembrokeshire.

Smile at St. Martin’s

James Davis — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:37:29 +0000

The Friends of St Martin’s Primary School Hereford now have a site hosted by FreeCharity.org.uk to advertise their activites and fundraising.

Mansel Lacy

James Davis — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:25:29 +0000

Calan Edwards has created a website, hosted by FreeCharity.org.uk, for the village of Mansel Lacy in Herefordshire.

The Walks Restoration Project

James Davis — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:58:58 +0000

FreeCharity.org.uk welcomes The Walks Restoration Project to the list of hosted sites. The Walks is a public park in King’s Lynn and the group works to preserve and restore the park.

Server upgrades

James Davis — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:17:07 +0000

Thanks to Bytemark Hosting we’ve been able to afford an upgrade to the server which powers FreeCharity.org.uk’s services. Bytemark offer virtual machines, dedicated servers, clusters, co-location and ADSL services. Their support given for our operations has been second to none.

The Listening Centre

James Davis — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:50:03 +0000

FreeCharity.org.uk welcomes The Listening Centre who are now hosting their website with us. Based in Oxford, the centre offers a counselling service to people on limited incomes, who would otherwise be unable to afford the services of a counsellor in private practice.