Tag Archives: WordPress

WordPress for a Family History Project

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

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

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

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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Eating my own dogfood

Prototypes experimenting with visualising IATI data from DFID.

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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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Christian Engineers in Development

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

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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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Tetrahedra

Tetrahedra is my own “micro-agency” building websites mainly for charities and small businesses in Glasgow. The site design is by Harrisment.

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Business in Glasgow

Business in Glasgow (BiG) is a Glasgow-based charity helping people make connections between work and spirituality. The BiG site required me to write a completely custom theme, particularly to highlight the upcoming events and occasional features.

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