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Fade to black

This is a stealth post / rant (ooooo) that will only be readable by RSS subscribers, as those that have popped over to the site will notice that the lights have now been switched off.
What started out as a test site, then a means of writing about and providing plugins and tips for the WordPress [...]

Looting is allowed

For what seems like the 10th time, I made the decision to go through all of my sites and domains and do a bit of a tidy up. I think this occasion was prompted by the lack progress made during my last “sit down with a note pad” moment, so I made the point of [...]

Not currently available for work…

I am eternally grateful to all those who take the time to send me an email with the details of their fantastic sounding projects and / or plugins.
Unfortunately, I am in a position that I never thought would occur. It kills me to have to turn away interesting work, but I fear that my current [...]

Playing with themes again – sorry

I get bored easily, but I still haven’t found a simple dark theme that I actually really really like. I know pretty much waht I want it to look like, but I haven’t the time to get my crayons out so the theme on this blog is in a constant flux until I can find [...]

Image uploading interface

Huge thanks to those who helped out with the interface decision for image uploading.
I’ve just checked in the changes to the development code and run through it for a quick screencast. Look ok?

Taking on the world, oh yes sir.

A few of the readers of this blog and followers of my ramblings in Twitter have watched my brain and creativity levels drop to zero. I blame this 100% on too much coding and too little sleep, not my rapidly approaching old age, no siree….
So let me tell you where I am with regards to [...]

Code Snippet : Insert on duplicate update function

The database helper functions in the WordPress database class are incredibly useful and time-saving things.
Rather than creating an Insert or Update SQL statement yourself, simply pass in the table name and a key / value array and WordPress will ... [More] build and sanitise the SQL for you.
Recently, however, I found myself needing (wanting) to use the [...] [Less]

An Interface decision…

For those who are design orientated or just know what they like. It would be great if you could help out a struggling, sleep starved developer by casting your eye over this and posting your opinion.

StayPress Administration theme 0.3 tagged

Those following the all new StayPress commits feed will have just seen the tagging of version 0.3 of the StayPress administration theme. There are a few changes in this version to increase stability and some things that, quite frankly, were added ... [More] because they improved the interface.
It is available for download from here.
Note: This version is [...] [Less]

Upgrading today

I’m upgrading the server software and WPMU today, so there is likely to be downtime and bits and pieces that act strange during the upgrade.