Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
Regular site visitors may have noticed a rather major change in this site today, the URL changed! The site has moved from geek.hellyer.kiwi today to it’s new home at geek.hellyer.kiwi. Probably no one else will care, but this is a major move for me as I’d worked very hard on building a brand name and so I thought I’d write a post about it.
I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. Over the past year I have changed from approaching plugin development with the intention of pleasing as many users as possible, to attempting to solve single problems as flawlessly as possible.This has made the plugins I release […]
I went on the hunt for a tool to let me DDOS my own site and provide me with some nice little graphs to show me how slow (or fast) it is under heavy load. The tool I used was blitz.io.
Spam Destroyer plugin now features experimental support for bbPress user registrations, bbPress guest posting.
I was having a dreadful time converting from the UTC time stamp stored in the WordPress database to the local time set in the admin panel. I ended up writing the following handy little function to convert the times easily.
The Simple Colorbox plugin now features slideshow functionality. It will no longer display those annoying horizontal scrollbars when the browser is skinnier than it is tall.
I’ve created a new plugin called the Unique Headers WordPress Plugin. It adds the ability to use unique custom headers on individual pages, posts or categories.
A simple filter to automatically add a class attribute like widget-order-1 to all widgets within sidebars.
Quick code snippet for anyone attempting to filter get_header() in WordPress. This is a useful feature for developers wanting to modify the header image of a site without needing to mess with the theme.
Including convoluted chunks of code to WordPress themes so that you can provide support for advanced title tags is mostly pointless since the same functionality is provided by SEO plugins.
WordPress plugin which removes the “delete site” link from the admin panel of a multi-site installation.
A plugin which demonstrates how to extend the theme customiser built into the default Twenty Eleven theme in WordPress 3.4.