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Debugging WordPress

By Mark on December 24, 2010

An important task in developing a website, or plugins and extensions, is the ability to hunt down errors. Unless you’ve invested in an IDE that has built in debugging features, it can be a real headache tracking down that elusive error. Good news for WordPress developers is that debugging is built in – if you [...]

Posted in Web Development | Tagged Debugging, multisite, WordPress | Leave a response

The Climate Run Homepage

The Climate Run

By Mark on December 13, 2010

The Climate Run organisers wanted a site that would act both for information dissemination and for facilitating the event’s organisation.  This we gave them using the WordPress Content Management System. The fixed top menu makes it easy to navigate to another page no matter where you are on the current page.  The multi-column layout, newspaper [...]

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IDM Homepage

IDM Property Services

By Mark on December 10, 2010

IDM wanted a site they could keep up to date themselves. The site we developed uses WordPress as the base CMS along with some customisations to make it work the way IDM wanted. Each Property page allows them to upload images and specify an address for the automatic Google Map. To help the organisation of [...]

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What the Font? Detecting fonts from images

What the Font? Detecting fonts from images

By Mark on December 9, 2010

I’m sure that if you’re into your design and especially your fonts you sometimes wonder what font it is you’re looking at because you want to use it for your own site or work. The frustrating thing though is that there are tens of thousands of them out there – it’d be like looking through [...]

Posted in Web Development | Tagged font detection, fonts | Leave a response

Adding Custom Content Types to the Sitemap

By Mark on June 29, 2010

I was working on a customer site and realised that the Google Sitemap Generator I use wasn’t including the Custom Content Types I had created in WordPress 3.0. Luckily the original plugin writer (Arne Brachhold) had created a hook to enable the addition of extra pages. Since I couldn’t wait for Arne to catch up, [...]

Posted in Search Engine Optimisation, Web Development | Tagged Custom Content Types, Filter, Sitemaps, WordPress 3.0 | 63 Responses

CSS Classes and WordPress Filters

By Mark on June 22, 2010

The longer I develop websites, the more I love and appreciate CSS classes: with small changes to your stylesheet you can easily change the look & feel of a website.  Something else I love is the WordPress Filter framework.  This allows you to take and modify a piece of output text or an array, without [...]

Posted in Web Development | Tagged Classes, CSS, Filter, Theme Development, WordPress | 1 Response

Ceremony Designer

Ceremony Designer

By Mark on June 7, 2010

Ceremony Designer Katie Deverell wanted a simple site to help promote her work.  It is built on WordPress which allows her to edit the site’s content whenever she wants including all the banner images. The design incorporates 3 columns of content and rolling images on top of the banner.

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    When content has to bend to the will of design, the design is probably wrong. 3 months ago
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