Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
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 […]
After we redeveloped the Red Devils ice hockey team site on WordPress.com, we felt the urge to create something which could be benefit the rest of the WordPress.com community. It is not possible to upload themes to WordPress.com per se, but it is possible to change a themes CSS via the custom CSS option. So […]
The PixoPoint Theme Integrator plugin for WordPress is now available in the official WordPress plugin repository. PixoPoint Theme Integrator plugin page on WordPress.org If you find the plugin useful, please rate is up by logging into the repository and clicking the stars in the right hand sidebar 🙂 If you are using the plugin, please […]
The PixoPoint Theme Integrator plugin is now available in beta form. This new version has some major changes from the original alpha release. For more information and download links, please visit the PixoPoint Theme Integrator page. Admin page The initial alpha versions of the plugin required manual editing of a configuration file within the plugin […]