Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
One of our clients required a very simple WordPress plugin to allow them to collect email addresses on their site and to output those in a convenient format. The result was the PixoPoint Email Submit plugin which adds this functionality to your WordPress install. The plugin has been submitted to the official WordPress plugin repository […]
There was a silly error in the Simple CMS plugin which we have now fixed. The bug was kindly reported in our support forum by dave2ic and brianedm. An update is now available in the plugin repository or you can update using the built in plugin updater in WordPress. The bug caused administrators to not […]
WordPress Version 3.1 (due for release within the next month or two) will include an admin menu bar similar to the one seen on WordPress.com and Vipers’ Admin bar plugin. You can read more about the development of the admin bar in WordPress Trac. You can see the admin bar in action by installing the […]
I developed the WordPress theme for the famous New York Ensemble Theatre for for CubicTwo. It includes a slick slider gallery on the home page and makes extensive use of the new post thumbnail system in WordPress for most of the images used on the site and includes a large number of widget areas so […]
I developed the Accredo JBiz WordPress theme in collaboration with graphic designer Paul le Comte and Total Communications. I’m very happy with the final result. Paul’s design is clean and very easy to read.
The Organic Connections web developer contracted me to develop a new dropdown menu for their site. It features curved graphical dropdown borders and dropshadows.
We have rewritten the Simple CMS plugin for WordPress. The new version uses PHP to remove items from the administration menus and redirects the WordPress dashboard to the edit pages screen. There are still some remnants of the old blog post and commenting functionality of WordPress left after the plugin is installed, but the main […]
Have you ever written a blog post which links to another post within the same blog in WordPress? Has it annoyed the heck out of you when it triggered it pingback to the other post? If you answered yes to both of those questions, then install the excellent “No Self Ping plugin” by Michael D. […]
WordPress.com has performed some updates to the Titan theme recently. They removed the <h1> tag from the header and moved the navigation into the header area instead of below it. This has caused some problems with the CobaltCloud theme which is built on Titan. CSS update If you are using CobaltCloud on WordPress.com, you will […]
Aside from the known issues with flash, there is a major problem with the default setup of most flash objects which many people are unaware of. A quick search through our support forum, will show up dozens of questions relating to Adobe Flash objects and dropdown menus appearing beneath them. The usual solution people look […]
The PixoPoint Theme Integrator has now been launched as a stable release. We have fixed the following bugs since the last beta version: 1.0.6 – Stable release 1.0.5 beta – Folder permissions bug fixed (problem which afflicted most users) 1.0.4 beta – Fixed path error in admin panel code 1.0.3 beta – Fixed function name […]
Our JavaScript guru Ronald Huereca has launched a terrific new e-book explaining the technical side of using AJAX with WordPress. If you have ever wanted to learn how to add AJAX features into your WordPress powered site, then we highly recommend checking out Ronald’s new book. The book is easy to read, easy to understand […]