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 it here, but if you want to check it out, here’s the website: www.wp-brighton.org.uk

Hope this’ll save someone the same painful process of Google searching leading to broken page links and out of date instructions/screenshots. So, you’ve got WordPress installed, Thematic as your theme or parent theme and you’ve installed WPML (I’m using v2.3.2), selected your languages and options and are now in ‘Theme and Plugins Localisation’ in the […]

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 theme development without having to worry about the eventual web hosting environment or domain host. […]

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 […]