Recently, when I haven’t been working on WPAdvent, I have been tweaking and improving TimThumb. In fact there’s been a couple of cool new features added that make it a much more useful peice of kit.The big changes boil down...
In January or February this year I had the idea of making some sort of advent calendar website for christmas. I wanted to share something with the online community – I just wasn’t sure what.In mid October I started thinking...
I’m not by nature a particularly jealous person, but seeing other people get loads and loads of Twitter followers I can’t help but be a little envious. It’s human nature – we all want to be more popular or more...
Speeding up a websites loading time is so good for so many reasons, so it’s understandable that people want to use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to serve their images, however in the case of TimThumb there’s a right way...
I often get asked questions about TimThumb and why it doesn’t work in certain situations. I can generally tell what is wrong with the script within about 60 seconds of being sent a demo url. Below are my top tips...
It’s no longer spring but it’s always worth spending some time tidying up your website. In this article I am going to show an easy way to clean up the dead articles on your site which will increase the overall...
In my never-ending quest to improve Binary Moon I have investigated hub pages, an easy way to link relevant content.Hub pages are a single page on your site that is targeted to one specific keyword or key phrase. This keyword...
I am currently beta testing a new website called Optimizely – a super simple A/B testing product… and it’s gotten me thinking.A/B testing is a process that allows you to optimize your website for your users. You create one or...
It seems like forever ago now but I have just realised I haven’t yet announced Nominate here on Binary Moon.Anyway, at the start of July, I released a new theme called Nominate. This is the public version of the theme...
Moving the crop position around is by far the most popular feature that has been requested for TimThumb. And today it has been officially released!To be honest the cropping code was something I had put off as I wanted to...
So far I have documented the basic TimThumb functionality, and how to resize images that are on external domains and now things can get interesting. In this part I will talk about some of the features that have been available...
Of all the TimThumb feature requests the most popular are being able to crop an image from a specified location, and being able to load images from external websites. Resizing images from external images was added at the start of...
TimThumb has always been built with simplicity in mind. However there are a few things it can do that have not been exposed before.Inspired by a comment from RBhavesh I have decided to write a series of posts in which...
Let’s get this out of the way quickly. Yes this is Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, but it’s not the Bourne Identity. Not close.One similarity the two films share is the shaky cam stylings. It’s everywhere, even more so than...
Saw an interesting blog post on Twitter today about storing WordPress FTP information in wp-config.php. The article was written in German so I sent the author an email to ask if he’d mind me translating it. Phil, the author, very...
Recently I was contacted on Twitter by Josh Fialkoff how I develop WordPress themes, and I thought the answer would make for perfect blog fodder.I used to work entirely on my local computer, with apache, mysql, and php installed (XAMPP...
Recently I have spent some time trying to improve the page views on my website.Rather than trying to increase the promotion and links I have focused on the site itself, looking at how I could improve the content itself to...
There has recently been a new piece of code added to the WordPress core which makes sure that people spell WordPress correctly – automatically correcting misspellings (ie. making the P in the middle uppercase).On its own this seems harmless enough...
I recently recorded my first screencast for Pro Theme Design showcasing the new features for my WordPress theme Elemental.To make my life easier I purchased a copy of Screenflow for my Mac. Screenflow is designed specifically for recording and editing...
The Wolfman is a remake of a classic horror movie. Re-imagining the story and bringing the special effects bang up to date.On paper the cast sounds great. Anthony Hopkins rarely disappoints, Benicio Del Toro already looks wolf like, and Hugo...
Today I am at the London Facebook Hackathon 2010. A bunch of developers in London are going to build Open Graph apps, and then show them off to some Facebook Execs. The best will be presented to Mark Zuckerberg tomorrow.Unfortunately...