Robert O'Rourke

Project Babb Case Study

At the start of April 2014, Telegraph Media Group hired us as a development partner to build what was code named ‘Project Babb’, an experiment in shareable content designed to broaden the paper’s audie…

The Problem with Previewing Posts

There’s a bit of a problem with previewing posts in WordPress. Here’s a code snippet you can use in your plugins or themes to get around the problem.

Designival 2012

We recently attended Designival; a one day creative and design event featuring workshops, lectures and pop-up shops. Here’s our write-up from the day.

Embed all the Gists!

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.

BigSWIG, Big Thanks, Big News

A few highlights from the BigSWIG event we held. Thank you to all those who spoke and all those who attended, for what was a fantastic evening of great talks.

Design Notes: The Plaza

We try to fit in one charity project a year at interconnect/it and this year it was the turn of the Plaza community cinema in Waterloo. Read on for the design notes behind this exciting build.

How to remove <code><p></code> tags from images in WordPress

By default WordPress will wrap any images you insert into a post in a paragraph tag. To get around this limitation here’s a snippet for your functions.php.

How To Make Sticky Posts Even Stickier In WordPress

‘Stickiness’ isn’t just useful for the home page of a WordPress site, but useful elsewhere too. If you want sticky posts to stick everywhere, here’s a code snippet for you.

Top 10 Functions for functions.php

We thought we’d share some of the functions that go into most of our custom WordPress themes. If you have your own favourites then get commenting!

WordPress Weather Widget

We found many of the weather widgets and badges out there lacking. Either they were not aimed at regular users and almost all were just plain ugly. We had to fix that.

Gill Sans Rides Again

Gill Sans and the colour red; that was the brief. Gill Sans rides again, on our new company website! Here we discuss the process of building our new site.