Between Christmas and New Year Journalxtra was deluged by an amazing coincidence of IT cock-ups that put JournalXtra flat on its back. If I didn’t know better I would say JournalXtra and its server enjoyed a week of drink fuelled mayhem [aka a piss-up, in the British English vernacular]. The JournalXtra Christmas party began with … Read more
We are in the process of moving our plugin, script and other downloads to Github. We host some files on SourceForge, some on our own server and some in the WordPress SVN repository. This means our downloads are spread around the web with no real central management policy. Good for posterity and accessibility but bad … Read more
Only a few days to go and the big man of Christmas will don his red cloak, ready his reindeer and fly from house to house, climbing chimney after chimney to deliver gifts to loved ones around the world. Web developers love gifts too and will enter sleep Christmas Eve with restless imagination to awaken … Read more
Dear readers, over the next few months you will see a few changes to the structure of JournalXtra. This is not the first time we have said this but we now feel that this is the right time for us to conduct the changes we have planned during 2013. Over the coming days, weeks and … Read more
This is something the JX team has been debating over for a few months: Should we change our URL structure? Will the change damage our search rankings? So, what is the change in our URLs and why the change? Our old link structure had all links ending with digits e.g http://example.com/article-123/ The digits represented article … Read more
Way back when JournalXtra first popped into existence as a blog, we planned to write FAQs to accompany every post. An early post and complimentary FAQ showing this idea in action can be seen here (post) and here (FAQ). This idea – 4 years later – is coming back as a public Q&A forum. We … Read more