Author Archives: John

Adelaides redesign

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

A WordHack to create a WordPress site importing UK Aid data

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WordCamp UK 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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Christian Engineers in Development

CED are a small UK charity that supports communities in the developing world with technical expertise.

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An alternative bit.ly redirector

For some reason I was in the house by myself one late winter evening when this request from Owen popped into my Twitter feed. The context is that there are a number of countries and organisations that for some reason block redirectors such as bit.ly. Ethiopia, where Owen lives, was one until very recently [until [...]

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Glasgow Spirituality Survey

Supporting a community survey on work and spirituality in Glasgow City Centre.

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Widget discoveries

I’ve been really impressed recently with a couple of WordPress plugins and widgets, and have used them successfully in a recent project (more about that later). Widget Logic Alan Trewartha’s Widget Logic plugin adds a control to all widgets allowing you to use conditional tags to control which page the widget appears on. This is [...]

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Kicked off at Busby

A short but fun project to set up a community activist site to help improve the train service on the East Kilbride line.

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VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro

I installed Sun’s VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard) this week, then created a new virtual machine with WIndows 7 Ultimate – 32 bit (thanks to my MSDN licence). That means I can test how my WordPress themes look on IE8 running on Windows 7. I can also run Windows only applications and share [...]

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A few of the tools I use

I have had a MacBook Pro for a few months now, and I’ve found a few favourite tools for WordPress development. I’m open to other recommendations, if there’s anything you’ve found particularly useful. Development Environment XAMPP provides me with the right Apache and MySQL environment for my test sites. It makes it easy to use [...]

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