Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
We often receive requests for information on where to learn more about WordPress theme and plugin development. Unfortunately, the official resource site WordPress.org is not a good place to go for information beyond the extreme basics of WordPress or encyclopaedic type information about various hooks and filters and functions used within the core software. So […]
In our IE Hovers post we outlined how the Superfish jQuery plugin can be used to create a smooth flowing animated effect for your dropdown menu. However the Superfish script is reasonably large and many people don’t require the various options which are available with the Superfish plugin. So here is an explanation of a new […]
We have received a few requests for information about how we have added our latest forum topics to our sidebar here on geek.hellyer.kiwi. The answer, is that it is a custom coded WordPress widget. We weren’t intending this for public release, so it is not as easy to use as it could be. The plugin […]
Since the inception of geek.hellyer.kiwi, we have been providing free support in our support forum for our menu plugins and CSS generator. Later, we began offering our Premium Support service, which gives much faster response times and we are happy to answer even very complex questions or even write extensive code to help out our […]
I often receive requests for new menu designs from my Premium Support members (note: this service is no longer available). Here is a case study demonstrating the fastest way to get your dream menu implemented onto your site. Dropline menu Dre Armeda from CubicTwo contacted us regarding the construction of a custom menu design for one of […]
Many people get confused when working with our WordPress menu plugins and CSS generator as to what exactly “Suckerfish” is and what the difference is between it and “Superfish“. Most of you will never need to understand the difference, but for those of you keen to dive in and either custom build your own menu or tinker […]
There seems to be some confusion amongst the users of our site about exactly why our WordPress menu plugins include javascript files, yet work fine without it, so here is an explanation. If none of this makes sense to you and you are using one of our WordPress menu plugins, don’t worry! Our plugins handle all […]
Marty Kassowitz of Interest Factory contacted us requesting assistance in creating a new menu for the official website of Emmy Award-winner Nancy Cartwright. Nancy is best known as the voice of yellow coloured spikey haired underachiever Bart Simpson, but also gives voice to Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and Todd Flanders on the Simpsons TV show […]
Some you may have noticed the drastically different look we have around here. This has been thanks to the brilliant work of Tung do (aka Small Potato). Tung has recently come back from an extended break from web design and offered to redesign geek.hellyer.kiwi. We were stoked when he sent us two PSD’s with the […]
Nancy Cartwright is the voice behind Bart Simpson. I was contracted by her web developer to provide the coding expertise for her dropdown menu. It includes features such as graphical curved dropdown borders, drop shadows and flyouts. The content of the menu is powered by our PixoPoint Menu plugin for WordPress.
We have been asked many times before to provide a way to remove the links of parent pages in our menu plugins. Today one of our Premium Support members requested this feature, so we added support for it into our latest release for them. Simply add a comma separated list of the page IDs you […]
WordPress is known for it’s “five minute installation”. However here at PixoPoint we’re found it takes me a lot longer than five minutes due to thelaborious task of uploading stacks of files via FTP on slow internet connections. To improve the upload time, we are releasing a very simple script which allows you to upload […]