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Ideally want's to be more of a desktop/office phone, rather than the cordless. We need to be able to route/divert calls to other desks and locations, put callers on hold etc. Plus, I prefer corded phones anyway - stops me wandering round and round in circles

Hardware. Oddly enough, I have also been considering Voipfone as well... They do sell the hardware themselves, just wondering what other people use that's all.

Can anybody recommend a good, all-round voip phone? Moving away from the traditional BT system we had and want something half decent.

^This! I wouldn't be without this plugin (and the repeater add-on).

EDIT: Solved! Helps if you actually change the string to be edited in the code..... I hadn't noticed this before, but the admin bar text in the WordPress dashboard now says 'How are you', instead of 'Howdy'. When did this change? Anyway, I have always had a custom welcome script setup to show a more personalised message; /* Change howdy text */ add_filter('gettext', 'roothost_change_howdy', 10, 3); function roothost_change_howdy($translated, $text, $domain) { $blogtime = current_time( 'mysql' ); list( $today_year, $today_month, $today_day, $hour, $minute, $second ) = split( '([^0-9])', $blogtime ); if ($hour <= 11){ $greet = "Good Morning"; } if ($hour >= 12 && $hour <= 16){ $greet = "Good Afternoon"; } if ($hour >= 17){ $greet = "Good Evening"; } if (!is_admin() || 'default' != $domain) return $translated; if (false !== strpos($translated, 'Howdy')) return str_replace('Howdy', $greet, $translated); return $translated; } /* End howdy text */ This has always worked as expected. Fast forward to this week, and I'm rebuilding my framework for a few new sites coming up in the next couple of weeks and noticed this is no longer working. I have stripped everything else out completely, and even tried the snippet on a fresh install of wordpress with the twentyfifteen theme. Still no joy! Presumably the hook, or filter has changed in recent versions. Anybody have a solution? Cheers!!

Nice Owl! Bet you had a 'Hoot' making that..... I'll get my coat :\

Yeah, sorry, should have been a bit clearer, in that we tend to use GoCardless for the Direct Debit, or recurring payments (monthly hosting and maintenance, social media plans etc). For one-off payments, or project stage payments we take Cheque (if I have to!), BACS and we also have a Barclaycard terminal. It is also portable as well, so we can actually take it with us if we ever need to take payments anywhere other than the office (great for when I'm working at home or on-site).

I tend to use GoCardless, https://gocardless.com/?r=WTCQHEPY&utm_source=website&utm_medium=copy_paste&utm_campaign=referral_scheme_50 (affiliate link)

I was afraid you were going to say that I'm not likely to run my business on a machine that has no security measures in place...

OK, I have narowed it down to Norton. If I completely disable the firewall, I can connect. Not ideal, as you can imagine. Looking at the firewall, there seems to be a 'connection blocking' option, however disabling this alone makes no difference. Any help greatly appreciated.

Firewall is off (mac firewall that is), and always has been. I have disabled Nortons firewall and tried that, still no joy.

Arrived at work this morning to find I can no longer connect to any FTP server, via any FTP client on the mac. I haven't changed anything, and at 5.30pm last night I was connecting as normal. I have checked the routers etc, and am able to connect via the PC I have here, but regardless of what client (cyberduck, fetch, transmit and filezilla all tried) I use, I am unable to connect to any FTP server (tried about a dozen different servers on various hosts). A quick Google says the mac may be blocking port 21? I do have Norton installed, and have done for the last 6 months without a single issue like this. Any ideas?

As above really. Any stock images need to be factored in to the cost of the project, or provided by the client. Every hour spent 'looking' for free to use images, is an hour out of your day that somebody needs to pay you for. I am presuming, from the figures you provided, that you are simply using premium (or free) themes for these websites? If not, you really need to rethink your costs, as £300 would be way to cheap for a bespoke design/build.

But you can suss out media fire, and post a link to that? Seems legit...

Nothing like data protection and client confidentiality with working from a coffee shop... Not to mentioned the 'likely' unsecure wifi they are connected to!

Just install a plugin/add-on if you are using firefox or chrome...

In theory, buying a pre-made template is the simplest option, as the bulk of the work is already done, right? In reality, and through my experience, working with templates is normally more time consuming and costly for the client as not only does a developer have to sift through somebody elses work (am I the only one who hates doing this?) trying to figure out what does what and why it is there (this can be a days work alone!), but it is never a simple job! The client will always want additional features, sections moved or added, and layouts changed, meaning you actually end up with a website that looks nothing like the template you started out with! Additionally, if you then wish to add extra plugins, for whatever reason, you then run the risk of these plugins conflicting with the already installed theme plugins or functions. You just never know what another developer has used to get things to work. I now don't actually take on projects that involve any pre-made templates, it's just not worth the hassle. If you pick the right developer, and there's a few good ones here, they will produce a completely bespoke theme, built around your requirements and free from all the bloat that a pre-made theme would come with.

Have to agree with Jason here. My own company website hasn't been updated in over 2 years. Nothing. No blogs, no portfolio updates. Nothing. Yet, it still outranks the majority of competitors that are constantly blogging/adding new content. Why? Domain age and quality (and quantity) of backlinks.

Erm, they would normally be used for off-site marketing, like magazines, adverts, stickers etc. Not sure why anybody would want one on a website?

I would imagine that's why the client contacted me, you know, to quote for a new website.....? Thanks for your wisdom though

Hmm, still not loading at all. Got to be beiing blocked by the network somewhere. got to run (client meeting) but cheers for the help

I can't get access to the buildings router (it controls the whole block of offices), but have reset my own individual one that I run the wireless through.

Yep, tried that \

Yeah, tried a range of browsers. Like I say, seems to load OK on 3g, or another network, just the office says no! I did notice (albeit briefly) there was no styling. That's the issue the client is having.

Anybody able to load http://www.ponymaloney.com/? I have a potential client asking me to look at an issue with the site but I can't even load it. It did load in briefly the first time I accessed it, but ever since it hasn't opened? It does only appear to be an issue on my network as if I browse via 3g it loads fine and others have said it loads fine (including the client!). I have cleared the cache, history etc and reset the router. I am in a serviced office block, so there is a master router (somewhere), could that be blocking access?