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Phil Emery

Principal / Owner / Creative Director at Focused Creative

@noise St. John's, Newfoundland joined Sep 2006

focusedcreative.com

    Bio

    I transform your brand with expert solutions in branding, messaging, design, marketing, website development, and social media. I specialize in helping businesses and national non-profits define their identity, communicate their mission, and connect with their audience effectively. With a proven track record across industries like technology, retail, IT, manufacturing, and transportation, I deliver tailored services, including brand development, corporate identity systems, multi-channel marketing campaigns, WordPress and BuddyPress websites, engaging videos, and thriving online communities. Let’s craft compelling marketing materials and annual reports that drive results and make an impact.

    Interests

    Music performance, songwriting, organizing and hosting of monthly songwriting workshops, public speaking, travel, photography, book clubs. Founder and co-host of the Song Talk Radio Podcast & Radio Show on 1280AM Toronto

    WordPress Origin Story

    Back in 2004, I was re-building my bands (The Parkdale Hookers website. I’d created lots of websites for clients as static HTML pages. I knew that if the updating process on the new site was too demanding, the site would become out of date after a while. I had seen that happen on too many client sites.

    I thought about what would be required: a simple site, database driven that would have new content displayed on the front page. Realizing a blog engine would fit the bill, I already knew that Blogger was hard to customize, I started to look around. I tried Joomla, but that would only output table-based output and I had long moved over to CSS-based coding – to the point where I couldn’t really remember how to do table-based layouts – I also knew I’d never go back.

    I found WordPress and installed it. There were very few resources on the web at the time (figuring out how to create multiple loops on the front page was a challenge) but I was thrilled with the result. The next couple of updates broke lots of stuff as old calls were removed (gettext anyone?) – which worried me. But it settled down after a bit.

    After that, I’ve never looked back!

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    July 2026
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    Created a topic, Need to redirect all 404 to homepage, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
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    Terrible solution. Just used it as the client used it …
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    December 2025
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    Dec 10 Wed · 14:46
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    Posted a reply to Was good, now not worth it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
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    October 2025
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    Posted a reply to WHM/Nginx Plugin & W3 Total Cache, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
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    Totally borks the site - prevents access to all sorts of admin panels No errors…