I’m organising my first business event! WP-Brighton – a WordPress event for everyone. Working with Michael Bailey and Paul Bunkham to organise this exciting event, which aims to bring together Brighton’s digital and business communities. I won’t go on about…
Hope this’ll save someone the same painful process of Google searching leading to broken page links and out of date instructions So, you’ve got WordPress installed, Thematic as your theme or parent theme and you’ve installed WPML (I’m using v2.3.2),…
This is something that has bugged me for ages. Surely there’s a way to redirect domain.com, *.domain.com, www.domain-variant.com, etc to the primary WordPress domain, www.domain.com using a WordPress function? Something that I can simply copy and paste for all my…
A little while ago, I expressed my joy at being able to avoid CSS cacheing-related issues on websites that could result in poor user experience, by using the CSS Cache Buster plugin. Unfortunately, this has stopped working for me 🙁…
Using Gravity Forms for a client’s website (not live yet), the design dictated that watermarks were used instead of labels. No problem – I’ve used the jQuery watermark plugin before (for example on the Brandwatch site www.brandwatch.com/). Everything worked fine,…
Whilst implementing Highlight Search Terms (HLST) plugin for a client’s website that also uses Cufon font replacement, I found that whenever the HLST plugin kicked in, the Cufon’d text disappeared. The symptom was that Cufon fonts flash up but it…
I was recently asked by a client to add a pause button to the jCarousel-powered carousel on their site. To do this, I used this post by Jeremy Mikola (thanks Jeremy). Here’s his code: $(document).ready(function(){ $(‘#jcarousel’).jcarousel({ vertical:…
Help me to support Prostate Cancer research by sponsoring my Mo, here: Movember 2010 – Day 1 – clean shaven Movember 2010 – Day 7 – tired but starting to take shape Movember 2010 – Day 12 – starting to…
Just a really quick post to say that I’ve wasted about a day trying to get these two plugins to work together and just can’t do it. An epiphany last night: just create a separate WP install with a very…
Having paid for wp-newsletter, I’ve just spent three hours trying to get it to activate from the WordPress admin panel. When I first tried, I simply got a 404 error page and a Microsoft Windows (I’m on Vista 32bit Ultimate…
More thematic child theme functions goodness 🙂 Having read the comments on this page: I couldn’t find a definitive copy and paste guide – looks like the HTML and PHP tags were being stripped out. So, leaning heavily on…
Solar-powered LED lights. Yawn. Seen them everywhere: home improvement stores, fuelling stations, supermarkets, pound stores and don’t even talk to me about eBay (3,200 listings when I checked). Background In theory, solar-powered LED lights make a lot of sense. LEDs…