Category: Web Development
Damn you WordPress – 3.0 launches!
WordPress 3.0 has been launched. And it’s late. And I’m busy all of tomorrow. And the weekend. I’m not going to risk the install now – sods law says it will go hideously wrong. I could try the install whilst I’m at work but their wireless network is so slow it’s nearly impossible to use. [...]
New WordPress Plugin – Simple Timed Content
Fancy making page or post content appear and/or disappear at set times and dates? Well, this plugin is the way to do it – it’s compact, easy-to-use and XHTML compatible. If you’re only interested in making content expire and only by date then an alternative solution was discussed last week in a post. Download from the WordPress Plugin site or read more [...]
Adding a Heat Map to WordPress
Wanting to learn a bit more about the visitors to this site, I thought installing a on the site would be a good start. I initially used PicNet Mouse Eye Tracking – this is free, but an advert for the service appears at the foot of your site. However, I soon came across the OpenSource [...]
WordPress – Making Post/Page Content Expire
There are some excellent plugins available to allow you to make time sensitive posts and pages expire. However, these work for the entire post/page rather than just a section. Here’s the simple solution – a shortcode that you wrap around some content and allows you to specify a date on which it should expiry and [...]
Adding information to your WordPress dashboard
If you wish to add a widget to your WordPress dashboard then that’s a different, and longer, discussion. Instead I’m going to show you how to add a simple message, of your choosing, to the “Right Now” box. How could you use this? You could use a database lookup beforehand, for instance, to report on [...]
New plugin released – WP Plugin Cache
I’m rather excited to announce the release of my new plugin, WP Plugin Cache . Intended for plugin developers, this provides file cache facilities to other plugins. Developers can add a single line to their code and, assuming the user has WP Plugin Cache installed as well, files will be cached. Expect my existing plugins to be converted [...]
New WordPress Plugin – Organ Donor Register
Right now more than 10,000 people in the UK need an organ transplant that could save or dramatically improve their lives. But each year around 1,000 people die while waiting for a transplant. Help us to give these people the chance for a new life. My new WordPress plugin – Organ Donor Register – will [...]
WordPress – Create an instant link to Wikipedia
I’m often wanting to create quick and useful links to Wikipedia. Obviously, you could add a link manually each time, but wouldn’t an automated system be so much better? Well, crack open your functions.php file within your theme folder and added the following code… add_shortcode(‘wikilink’,'add_wikilink’); function add_wikilink($paras=”",$content=”") { return ‘<a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/’.str_replace(” “,”_”,$content).’” title=”Look up ‘.$content.’ [...]
Simple Social Bookmarks – Version 2 released!
Only 2 days after releasing version 1.8 of Simple Social Bookmarks , version 2 is out! Almost completely re-written, version 2 is a lot more efficient and is easier for me to maintain. And, more importantly for the user, there’s a plethora of new Social Bookmarking sites included. One thing to note for existing users – the “basic” [...]
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Vote BNP? They can’t even run a website!
If (for whatever insane reason) you stumble onto the BNP website today, you’ll find it’s a single page “temporary” site. Temporary? On the day of the general election? Maybe visiting one of the other site pages, as indexed on Google, would shine some light… A message from Simon Bennett due to the volume of phone calls and emails [...]
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