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Posts Tagged ‘Web Development’

Spots for WordPress Developer Notes

Spots for WordPress Developer Notes

Our Spots for WordPress plugin is designed to make your content management life with WP even easier. Although there are developer notes on the WordPress.org repository, we’ve decided to maintain a page here where we can possibly show a broader range of information in the future, depending on the take-up of the plugin. Template tags Spots provides 2 template tags… continue reading

Top 10 Functions for functions.php

I thought I’d share some of the functions that go into most of our custom WordPress themes. If you have your own favourites then get commenting! Removing the auto capitalisation of ‘WordPress’ When version  3.0 was released a fairly simple filter appeared called capital_P_dangit. This was committed to the core by Matt Mullenweg for the purposes of brand reinforcement. Suffice… continue reading

The Danger of Unpaid Consulting, And One Answer…

One thing that happens a lot in the web development and design sphere is the problem of unpaid consulting. Actually, I’ll rephrase it a little… it happens all the time! It’s rather tricky. Clients are interested in us because we offer them something that gives them better efficiency, sales and returns. But what we do is complex and sophisticated. As… continue reading

Does the web industry suck?

Does the web industry suck? Is it because of us techies or is it something about the clients?

Getting Your DNS Settings Right

One thing worth thinking about in 2008, is fixing the DNS entry to your website. Most here are probably set up just fine, but here’s one of the most common problems we see: Go to a website – eg, http://www.marketsafeuk.com and it should all work fine. But take out the www and go to http://marketsafeuk.com and it doesn’t.  You just… continue reading