January 29, 2010
by Lee
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One of the improvements in WordPress 2.9 is native support for thumbnail images on posts. The API is pretty good – although it assumes that you want to return the whole IMG tag. In my case I wanted to return … Continue reading
October 17, 2009
by Lee
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I recently re-worked a site for a client. He was moving over from Joomla to WordPress, so I started from scratch with his theme design. They liked the new theme I came up with – however I’d put the menu … Continue reading
September 25, 2009
by Lee
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Google has announced the launch of “Place Pages”. Essentially a local hub showing you relevant information from maps, search, business listings and so on. It’s a fairly basic implementation right now (My local page doesn’t return any info just yet … Continue reading
September 18, 2009
by Lee
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I’ve been working with a few clients to move their email marketing to a new home after most of them outgrew the limits of what they could reliably send through their existing infrastructure / hosts. Now – marketing isn’t really … Continue reading
September 7, 2009
by Lee
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I’ve recently been doing some work for a family member on a WordPress blog they run, and the need came up to build a mini-app. Now historically, I’m a Joomla kind of guy, and it’s fairly clear that for a … Continue reading
August 7, 2009
by Lee
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I wrote a previous post about how you could hack the excellent Twitter Tools plugin from Alex King to add Google Analytics tracking variables to the URLs posted to twitter when you posted a new blog post. I submitted the … Continue reading
August 7, 2009
by Lee
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Taxonomy Support I wrote recently about building a brand directory using a fantastic feature of WordPress called “Taxonomies”. Now that that feature is live I’ve realised that a number of my favourite WordPress plugins simply don’t support taxonomies. Among the … Continue reading
July 31, 2009
by Lee
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Background WordPress lets you categorise your posts according to “tag”, and “category”. Which is fine. However, for some time now WordPress has supported a concept called “Custom Taxonomies”. Which is a long winded way of saying “We’ll let you choose … Continue reading
July 18, 2009
by Lee
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I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but I’ve recently had to build a new WordPress site from scratch, and I’ve also had a couple of friends ask my advice on how to get their own sites … Continue reading
June 29, 2009
by Lee
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About six weeks ago, Google made an interesting announcement. They basically said that they will Look for markup formats (microformats and RDFa) that you can easily add to your own web pages This is an interesting announcement for a bunch … Continue reading