Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
As of WordPress 3.4, the way custom headers and backgrounds are handled by WordPress is changing. This won’t make any real difference to end-users, but those of us who make themes should being transitioning to the new system immediately. On the current trunk version of WordPress, even the Twenty Eleven theme is serving deprecated errors […]
I’ve created an uber simple Colorbox plugin for WordPress. Unlike other Colorbox plugins, this one has no complicated administration panels or mess to confuse your clients with. It is named simply “Simple Colorbox“. Check it out on the WordPress plugin repository, or here.
A long time ago in a WordPress world far far away, I made a plugin called “Multi-level Navigation plugin”. It turned out to be very popular, and despite the introduction of menus into WordPress core, is still fairly popular to this day. It seems however, that times have moved on, as has my knowledge of […]
There may be occasions when you would like to call a raw post from your WordPress powered site and insert it elsewhere on the internet. You could setup a complex cross-server MySQL query, however I decided to take a simpler approach by creating the No Theme plugin which allows you to enter the page or […]
If you have ever wanted to remove the extraneous CSS and JavaScript files which you may not be using in the excellent WP e-Commerce plugin, then you should check out the new “e-Commerce Disabler” plugin which automatically removes them for you.
The Auto Update plugin now includes a download counter to allow you to track the number of downloads of your plugins and/or themes. The number of downloads can be seen in the admin page underneath the slug and URL information. If there are any other features you think should be added, please let me know […]
Unbeknownst to many internet surfers, the data you submit to a website which does not use https, is free for anyone with appropriate access to see. This includes usernames, cookies and passwords – stuff you don’t want random people finding! Often these are not easily accessible as the data may be encrypted between you and […]
We have a new plugin called the “Auto-update plugin” available. It makes it easier to setup themes and plugins to auto-update themselves without needing to be hosted in the WordPress.org plugin or theme repositories. Check it out now!
Josh Davies and I developed the Freysinnet UK WordPress theme. Josh handled the design side of the project which explains the slick graphics 🙂 Custom plugins were developed for this website, including a newsletter plugin for handling mail outs.
Today we released a small plugin as a companion to the Hybrid Tabs plugin. We hope someone finds it useful! Hybrid Tabs CSS plugin.
I developed the ITX Design WordPress theme. It is a smooth green and blue design for a hosting company. The graphic design was handled by Josh Davies.
The catch with using the Grunion Contact form plugin for WordPress has always been that you were limited to a very simple contact form and did not have the ability to modify the fields used. However a recent update to the plugin has changed this situation dramatically. The new version includes an easy to use […]