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15 Jun 2010

WordPress Caching, part 3: Custom Caching Library

When building Elemental (WordPress Theme) I decided to develop my own, very simple, caching plugin to help speed up the theme.There were a few reasons why I did it but the main ones were: I was doing things with public...
08 Jun 2010

What do you want me to write about?

Part of improving my website involves me wanting to write about the sort of things you want to read about.If you could take 1 minute to answer 1 quick question then that would really help me to work out what...
03 Jun 2010

CSS Only Button – Redux

The other day, a post was published on Hongkiat showing how to make a button using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) only. However, it was misleading as the CSS-only button also used JavaScript and an image or two. It was actually...
28 May 2010

WordPress caching, Part 2

As I mentioned in WordPress caching part 1, WordPress has built-in caching that can be hooked into by plugins such as W3 Total Cache and Batcache (developed by Andy Skelton who is employed by Automattic).In this article I am going...
13 May 2010

6 Tips to Build Better WordPress Themes

If you want to make WordPress themes, for clients, to release for free or to sell, then there are a lot of factors you need to take into consideration. Below are some hints and tips that should help ease your...
11 May 2010

file_get_contents: A PHP Alternative to cURL

A comment on my post about cURL mentioned that file_get_contents is a simpler method to use, and in many ways it absolutely is.file_get_contents is a PHP functions that gets the contents of a file. Unlike cURL it doesn’t require any...
03 May 2010

How to Add Widgets to your WordPress Themes

Adding widgets to a WordPress theme is a fantastic way to make things really easy to customise for the people who use the theme. Below is a really quick explanation of how to add them to your own themes.Creating widget...
22 Apr 2010

How to Build the Perfect WordPress Sitemap

I was recently asked how I built the sitemap on Binary Moon so I thought I would share the code. The sitemap layout is actually one of the many custom page templates available in my WordPress theme, Elemental – however...
19 Apr 2010

Creating Words of Wisdom

I’ve never been interested in business. I’ve been interested in creating thingsParaphrased from Richard Bransons book “Business Stripped Bare”.The act of creating something, whether it’s a website, a video game, or a lego model, is one of the most satisfying...
16 Apr 2010

Using cURL to Read the Contents of a Web Page

Recently I wrote about how to use the Yahoo! weather api with WordPress and in the comments I was asked how to use it without relying on WordPress. The answer – is cURL.In this post I’m going to show you...
12 Apr 2010

9

As post apocalyptic movies go, things don’t get much more apocalyptic than they do in the movie 9. In a post war-time, when the only things left are some golems made by an old man, and a bunch of distinctly...
08 Apr 2010

WordPress Caching, Part 1: The Basics

Caching (on the internet) is the act of storing computationally expensive calculations in a way that can be recovered very quickly with the smallest possible impact on the server.Or, in short, ‘speeding stuff up’.In this series of posts I will...
07 Apr 2010

March Movie Madness

I watched loads of films last month. Most aren’t worth mentioning – but below are some short reviews of the ones I enjoyed the most.Hellboy 2Call me weird but the original Hellboy is one of my favorite films. It’s up...
30 Mar 2010

10 WordPress query_posts tips you probably don’t know

I have written a really brief query_post tutorial before, and it did quite well, but both WordPress and my own skills, have advanced considerably since then. So I thought it would be interesting to revisit the query_posts command and see...
29 Mar 2010

Toy Story 1, 2 and 3

I’ll be honest – I’m posting this because I was sent free copies of the recently re-released Toy Story 1 and 2 movies (Blu-Ray and DVD of both films). I was very close to turning it down – I don’t...
18 Mar 2010

Realigning James Woodcock dot com

Recently I was talking to my friend, and fellow blogger James Woodcock, about his website and somehow I ended up suggesting I spend an hour or so tidying it up.James is a video game and tech journalist… and an endless...
10 Mar 2010

Using the Yahoo Weather API (in your WordPress themes)

When developing our Hyperlocal WordPress theme called The Local Darren came up with the idea of adding the local weather to the themes header. After a bit of research I decided that the Yahoo! Weather api was the best solution.Before...
07 Mar 2010

WordPress Http API – Read Content From Other Websites

Recently I have been doing a lot of work with API’s and these often involve loading text content (rss/ xml/ json etc) from another website and then displaying the results – for instance the Twitter feed at the bottom of...

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