Debugging WordPress
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 [...]
The Climate Run
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 [...]
IDM Property Services
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 [...]
What the Font? Detecting fonts from images
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 [...]
Adding Custom Content Types to the Sitemap
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, [...]
CSS Classes and WordPress Filters
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 [...]
Ceremony Designer
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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