Twitter embeds are bad for web performance. They cause so many extra requests, and a huge amount of data added to a page, so how can we fix it?
Twitter embeds are bad for web performance. They cause so many extra requests, and a huge amount of data added to a page, so how can we fix it?
Interchange is an excellent responsive image utility that comes with Foundation. Time to hook it up to Wordpress!
A lot can happen in two and a half years since my original build. Time to pull my sleeves up and make the old website responsive!
The Wordpress auto update feature is superb; when it works. When it doesn't it can make you cry. Luckily there can be a quick fix.
What could make Wordpress any better? What about the ability to edit your posts directly in the page? Yay!
Have your Wordpress Stats broke? Feel a little lost without that friendly graph on the Dashboard? You need Jetpack!
So you have your Wordpress install in Subversion. What about those pesky plug-ins that always need updating.
I hope other people find this fix useful, I wish I'd known about it a few hours earlier...
Adding a custom header image to a Wordpress theme has never been so easy. Simply copy / paste and edit the code listed.
Finally got round to HTML5ing my Wordpress theme. Lots to learn with the (ongoing) HTML5 specifications.
Having a little time to spare I decided to update the Snipplr Plug-in for Wordpress, originally by Tyler Hall.
Building a mobile site can be quite painful, but it's made much easier using the DeviceAtlas API.
Post Thesaurus is broken.... oh wait no it isn't. Just a pesky JavaScript error from another plugin!
Converting your current posts isn't as easy as it looks. If you are comfortable editing the DB directly it's fairly simple.
Upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress on my development server didn't quite go as smoothly as expected.
When combining NextGEN gallery and built in Wordpress custom fields you can add some superb functionality which is easy to use.
Added a little feature to the CodeColourer Wordpress plug-in on my website that I'd thought I'd share with people.
I created this plug-in for Wordpress as I have a tendency of using the word 'great' a little to much...
NextGEN gallery just got a little smoother with this fine addition.
Finally solved an issue I'd been having with a couple of themes and the preview post functionality...
Sometimes the default markup for for the Wordpress sidebar isn't quite what you need. Here's how you change it.
For a while now Feedburner and the blogs RSS feed haven't been playing nicely, I finally figured out why.
While adding a few features to Post Ideas+ I needed to find all the administrator IDs in Wordpress.
Got a great idea for a blog post you don't want to forget? Use Post Ideas+ to keep track of them.
Writing a plug-in for Wordpress it gave me a strange error. Solved it in the end though.
Add this little bit of code to your functions.php file to remove jQuery.