Author Archives: John

WordPress for a Family History Project

By John | Published February 4, 2012

Here’s the slides for my talk at this morning’s WordUp Scotland. WordPress for a Family History Archive View more presentations from johnthegeo.

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WordUp Edinburgh 2011

By John | Published October 23, 2011

Yesterday was the first ever WordUp Edinburgh meeting, bringing together WordPress bloggers, designers and developers from across Scotland (and a few from northern England too). The event was really well organised by Taryn Wallis and Martin Young, who ensured a wide range of speakers and topics. What did we talk about? There were a wide [...]

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Cloning with WP Twin

By John | Published July 31, 2011

At the “So, how did you do that?” session at the recent WordCampUK in Portsmouth, someone mentioned an interesting tool for cloning WordPress installs – WP Twin. I had a chance to test this out recently. I wanted to take a copy of a live WordPress install, so that I could test a new plugin. [...]

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WordPress in the Enterprise

By John | Published July 17, 2011

We ran a panel discussion on WordPress in the Enterprise at the start of WordCamp UK. Thanks to Kimb Jones, John Read, Dave Coveney and Martin Beeby for their great contributions to the discussion. The slides from this session are on slideshare: WordPress in the Enterprise, WordCampUK 2011 View more presentations from johnthegeo The discussion [...]

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Where’s my iPhone?

By John | Published April 20, 2011

I’ve just used Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan’s app to interrogate my iPhone location records. This is fascinating. You can see I spend a lot of time travelling up and down to London on the West Coast Main Line. I’ve also had a few days holiday in North Yorkshire. But, unsurprisingly, most of my data [...]

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Eating my own dogfood

By John | Published April 17, 2011

Prototypes experimenting with visualising IATI data from DFID.

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APBC redesign

By John | Published March 6, 2011

Redesign of the site for Adelaide Place Baptist Church in Glasgow

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Adelaides redesign

By John | Published January 27, 2011

I’ve just updated the theme for Adelaides to give it a more contemporary feel and use WP3.0 features.

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OpenAid WordHack

By John | Published July 19, 2010

A WordHack to create a WordPress site importing UK Aid data

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WordCamp UK 2010

By John | Published July 19, 2010

I attended my second WordCamp UK at the weekend, held this year in Manchester. The (un)conference was attended by around 200 people, and was held in the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. Like last year, the main benefit to me was to meet the key people in the UK’s WordPress community (in the flesh rather [...]

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