Langley Student Accommodation
Paul approached me needing a brand new website for his student property rentals business. The main objective of the site was to provide information for prospective tenants on the available properties....
View ArticleEBRD Stories
After working with them on the Annual Meeting website, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approached me to design and build their new blog site, EBRD Stories. EBRD were great to...
View ArticleWordPress Security
Since I listened to Kieran O’Shea’s talk at WordCampUK, I’ve been taking security much more seriously. Kieran had some pretty scary statistics regarding hacking. For example, 90% of all businesses have...
View ArticleThe Tools of the (WordPress Freelance Development) Trade
I’ve been freelancing for a while now. I’ve also been developing WordPress sites for a while. In that time I’ve used many different tools. Some have been great, and some less great. Here I share a list...
View ArticleWordPress $is_iphone global
OK, why did nobody tell me about this, and why is it not documented! I just found out today that WordPress does some browser detection of its own. I’ve previously relied on other code libraries for...
View ArticleAddison Lee Communications
This is an internal company site and cannot be viewed publicly. Addison Lee is London’s biggest minicab company and a well known brand in London. They approached me to build them an internal...
View ArticleVGC Group
“Outperformance” is the VGC Group motto, and they achieve this across their many business divisions. However, one area that was under performing was their web presence. They approached me to design and...
View ArticleBEEPS
A responsive WordPress website for survey data Working with BEEPS (Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey) was another chance to continue my relationship with EBRD. BEEPS needed an...
View ArticleAdd links to WordPress custom excerpts
By default custom excerpts don’t have a ‘read more’ link of any kind. I wanted my custom excerpts to look the same as my dynamically generated ones. It’s a simple code change: The post Add links to...
View ArticleHow (and why) to use Schema.org on your WordPress website
Search engines have a big problem. There is so much data out there and it’s hard to work out what is what. Humans are great at inferring the context of web content, but this is much more difficult for...
View ArticleInternal Link Layout Issue
I recently came across an unusual problem when using internal links on a WordPress site. The link in question linked from one page on the site to a specific section on another page of the same site....
View ArticleSpinning Update progress on WordPress pages
Spinning Progress Wheel One of my clients recently informed me that a site that I had built had a problem; when some pages were published or updated, the progress wheel would spin until the browser...
View ArticleBeginner WordPress Theme Development
Last Thursday (28th July 2011) we held the third London WordPress meetup. The meetup is for WordPress users and professionals in London and aims to provide a networking and learning platform. I gave a...
View ArticleWordPress London meetup #5
The group continues to go from strength to strength with at least 30 members attending. This month’s meetup included a talk from BuddyPress developer Paul Gibbs. He talks us through the new release,...
View ArticleCustom Post Types
Last night I gave a presentation at the WordPress London meetup. I talked about custom post types in WordPress, something that has really excited me since WordPress 3. I’ve included the video, a rough...
View ArticleAdd links to WordPress custom excerpts
By default custom excerpts don’t have a ‘read more’ link of any kind. I wanted my custom excerpts to look the same as my dynamically generated ones. It’s a simple code change: The post Add links to...
View ArticleHow (and why) to use Schema.org on your WordPress website
Search engines have a big problem. There is so much data out there and it’s hard to work out what is what. Humans are great at inferring the context of web content, but this is much more difficult for...
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