Author: David Lockie

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, until I submitted a form that failed validation. I had chosen the AJAX option for […]

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 looks like they then go ‘invisible’ when the HLST JS kicks in. I guessed that […]

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: true,      scroll: 1,      auto: 5,      initCallback: function(jc, state) {  […]

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 simple theme that shows a holding page with a contact form, then switch between the […]

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 using Wampserver 2.0i) notification that Apache had crashed with the following details: Problem signature: Problem […]