When it was first announced Designival seemed a little underwhelming but that was largely due to the time between the announcement and when the speakers and programme of events were announced. I’ll admit even then I had never heard of Sara de Bondt, James Jarvis or Simon Manchipp before but it’s far more interesting to be surprised by someone new… continue reading ⇢
If you’ve been using our weather widget plugin you will have noticed by now it no longer works. The reason is Google quietly retired their weather API that we were relying on for the data. As a result we’re putting the plugin on hiatus until we have some time to find and implement a reliable API that won’t cause you… continue reading ⇢
Here’s a little snippet that you might like to use, automatically embed gists from github by simply pasting the URL into a post or page. It makes life easier if you prefer to use the visual editor when authoring content. Github gists are a great way to create, develop and share snippets of code quickly.
BigSWIG wasn’t a big idea we had one night, but simply an evolution of our usual SWIG events. A bigger venue, beer on-tap, a PA system, a big screen, and four awesome speakers! No, not loudspeakers, but actual people, talking about all things web, WordPress and design related. In the end there were very nearly 40 people at our first… continue reading ⇢
You may have heard by now that we recently launched a new website for the Plaza Community Cinema in Waterloo near Liverpool. We try to fit one charity project in a year at interconnect/it to give ourselves a challenge that wouldn’t normally come up. I should come clean that part of the reason for doing this project is that we were… continue reading ⇢
In the run up to SWIGmas we’ve got a great event on this month. We have 2 talks from regulars Matt Pealing and Anthony Casey covering the modern web design techniques and how WordPress can be applied to very specific content management jobs so it promises to be much more interesting than listening to me prattle on! Next month’s event… continue reading ⇢
<p> tags from images in WordPressBy default WordPress will wrap any images you insert into a post in a paragraph tag. While this isn’t the worst crime semantically speaking it can make life difficult if you want to style those images a certain way. Typically you can target images within a paragraph tag using CSS however you cannot target the paragraph tag itself. To get… continue reading ⇢
It’s that time again. After 2 good SWIG events we’re starting to get into the swing of it. I promise to do a better presentation next time! This month we’re moving the event to the last Thursday of the month in the hopes of making the event available to more people who’d like to attend but have not yet been… continue reading ⇢
As WordPress becomes more of a content management API and framework there are times when some of its legacy features are too mired in the context of “blog” to really be useful when it’s in use as a full content management system. Sticky posts are a great example. They only work on the index page (or custom blog page if… continue reading ⇢
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