Category: Web Development
How to suppress Skimlinks for some content in WordPress
Skimlinks is a great way to moneterise a blog. Once signed up and approved you simple need to add a line of JavaScript to your site and it will add moneterised links to your output. However, you may be adding sponsored posts or your own links and may not want Skimlinks to modify the entire, or [...]
Moving Hosts – Goodbye Memset, Hello Tsohost
I’ve been hosting this site with Memset for some time. They’ve provided an excellent, quick and stable service throughout. With a change in emphasis towards providing servers rather than hosting, though, my recent time with them has not been without its strained relationship. Some time ago my hosting package was done away with to new [...]
WordPress plugin review of 2011
2011 has been a hectic year for me and my WordPress plugins. I’ve learnt an awful lot – especially thanks to the excellent book Professional WordPress Plugin Development . As a result I’ve been re-visiting a lot of my plugins and vastly improving their code quality and capabilities. I’ve also got rid of my first plugin . Plugins that have been given a fresh lick [...]
Bandwidth Problems
So, I’m into day 11 of this month but my hosting bandwidth (which was only recently doubled) is now at 75% used. What’s going on? Thankfully, Memset provide cPanel and a host of data analysis tools. As you can see from this graph it’s rocketed since mid-October. I’d love to say it’s because visitors have gone [...]
How to use the Android 4 Roboto font on your website
This site previously used the font named Droid, which is the open source font used by Android. With last week’s introduction of Android 4, however, they’ve created a new font named Roboto – this has been designed for HD screens, so is perfect for websites. You can learn more about the Roboto font from a Google+ post by Matias Duarte , [...]
Copying to clipboard in WordPress
I was recently asked, as a commercial request, to create a WordPress plugin that would allow users to click a button and copy text the clipboard. It seemed an easy enough thing to do – 2 weeks later, though, and I’ve thrown in the towel. Using JavaScript to capture contents is the easy bit – [...]
UK2.net Hosting
While I was moving something else happened – this site’s bandwidth limit was reached and the site went down. As you can imagine, I didn’t even notice. My host is Memset who, I have to say, are superb. But you pay for that quality and I was already having to pay more than I was [...]
Streamline Hosting
Somebody once described NTL (now, Virgin Media) to me as “excellent, until you need any help”, due to their poor support. When it comes to Streamline.net hosting I wouldn’t even go that far. Their hosting is quite cheap and that’s the only good word I can give them. The Copy+ website, owned by the software [...]
Simple Code Embed WordPress plugin updated
Simple Code Embed (now named Artiss Code Embed) has had a total make-over, bringing with it much more efficient code and a total re-write of the instructions. The admin options has had an overhaul too, with users able to now personalise each aspect of the embed code. All details are on the plugin page .
Simple Facebook Link WordPress plugin updated
Indeed, it’s more than updated… it has a new name. It is now named Artiss Facebook Link, and is part of a new naming policy for my plugins. A short code option has been added but, more crucially for me, it uses my new coding standards including use of PHPDoc to document the code. Full [...]
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