Author Archives: John

WordUp Glasgow: Show Us How You Did That

By John | Published February 5, 2012

We ran a similar session to this at WordUp Edinburgh last year, and tried a slightly different approach this time, using a grid of 10-minute slots through the afternoon. People pre-populated this grid during the morning, and I was grateful that so many volunteered to share their knowledge.   Dan Frydman showed a site that [...]

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Integrating Google Spreadsheets with WordPress

By John | Published February 5, 2012

At WordUp Glasgow yesterday I showed a plugin I wrote to integrate data on Google Spreadsheet with a WordPress website. The Use Case To manage rotas within Adelaide Place Baptist Church we use Google Spreadsheet which several people have access to edit and keep up to date. This works for us as it’s easy to [...]

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WordUp Glasgow 2012

By John | Published February 5, 2012

I attended the very first WordPress conference in Glasgow yesterday – WordUp Glasgow, arranged by Taryn Wallis and Martin Young of WPScotland. The all-day event was held in the IET Teacher Building in St Enoch Square right in the centre of Glasgow and was a great venue – particularly the well-appointed lecture theatre with power [...]

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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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