A while back, I did a presentation about WordPress at CamCreative – where I had a lovely time and met some wonderful people. Now, at last, I’ve got round to uploading a PDF of the presentation I did – although the wonderful video which had some incredible action shots of installing WordPress hasn’t made it. […]

The original version of this post was one of the most popular I’ve written, which is why I’m now selling job sheet templates in my store. Only £3.00! Well, plus VAT. There are several formats and a PDF of instructions too. I’ve had many, many different bits of advice since starting up, and several of […]

Not sure if anyone can help with this… I’ve got a jQuery sortable list with radio buttons getting their values from MySQL, overridden by $_POST as appropriate. When I drag items they lose their values. Any idea how I can keep them? I’ve tried listening for each value when dragging and writing this to a […]

Creating graphs with CSS and PHP is pretty simple, but the first solution which comes to mind might not be the right one. Let’s say we have our votes in an array, $votesCast, which looks like this: $votesCast = array(22,34,56,22); The first solution we might think of is to get the percentage of the total […]

Well, this is an odd idea. I’m going to be using this post to live-blog development of a new WordPress plugin. Not only to show the work involved and how I go about it (in the hope that someone will point out areas for improvement) but also to help me get an idea of areas […]

How to add code immediately after the tag – hints for Wordpress plugin developers.

So here’s where we are with the Greatest Filing Cabinet Known To Man challenge. As I get more, I’ll update this list of links: First up were a load of stickers from a very old copy of The Guardian, which I found at the bottom of a drawer. They were dinosaurs. Ace! Next, the legally […]

Filing cabinets: one of the best things about business. They make a nice “clunk” noise and there’s a space to hide biscuits in them, if you ever have enough biscuits to hide (which I don’t). The only thing which could possibly be wrong with a filing cabinet is overwhelming brownness….

I’m getting an office! A whole office all to myself. Yay! It’s all very exciting but very stressful. I’m currently experiencing the long wait for a phone line to be set up so I can get broadband installed, and after that I can finally get everything moved over. At the moment there’s a bit of […]

I have returned to freelancing full time! It’s only just sinking in. Here are some thoughts. Thoughts about freelancing, I mean; not that thought about fixing that chair in the kitchen. You’re not interested in that.