Category: Blog
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Creating administrator user in WordPress with only FTP details (Updated)
I seem to have recently gained a number of clients who were very keen for work to be completed due to bad communication with their previous developers. This usually meant that anything they’d ask for wouldn’t be received for some time. This raises a dilemma in that these clients almost always don’t have all the…
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Hulu + AppleTV + Australia
Recently the quality of Usenet has gone quite far down hill. Despite being the oldest service for obtaining TV content I can think of, it seems it’s finally no longer small enough to go under the radar of big TV networks. So I’ve been looking for alternatives as of lately. Having had a quick search…
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WordPress Metadata Media Naming
A client of mine recently ran into a problem. He had a large number of professionally shot photography for his business. Over the years he had gotten into the good habit of renaming his photos so they were easy to manage. The problem was that WordPress’ media manager was naming the photos using metadata that…
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Random Password Generator for MacOS 10.7
I recently downloaded from the App Store a wonderful tool called Little Ipsum. Simple system tray based app that would allow you to quickly and easily generate 1-3 words, 1-3 lines or 1-3 paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum. This was quite handy as my previous process was opening a new browser tab and heading to HTML-Ipsum, which is…
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Ajax Driven WordPress Website (Server Side)
I recently built a website for a designer where he requested the entire thing be Ajax driven and WordPress managed. I have built websites like this in the past using both Drupal and WordPress. In the past however I feel I have made the process overly complicated on the client side, often requiring huge amounts…
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Adding Automatic XBMC Library Update with Sabnzbd Post Processing
I’ve previously written a post about my home theater setup using an AppleTV, Plex, Sickbeard and Saznzbd+. This was all fine, however just before Christmas I thought I’d splash out and get myself a dedicated HTPC. There were a few issues with my previous setup. Firstly it appeared that the Plex for AppleTV wasn’t really…
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Image Fade In with jQuery (UPDATED)
I often find it a much nicer effect to have images fade in when they’ve finished loading, opposed to watching them build on screen. This is super easy to do with a bit of jQuery and CSS, but I’ve always had an issue that I only today discovered a work around for. Imagine you have…
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Invaluable Developer Tools
There are some obvious tools I feel no web developer today could get by without using (mostly Firebug). Here’s another one for Firefox based developers, Wappalyzer. It’s a simple tool that shows information about pages you’re currently browsing and what technologies have been used to create the site. It even shows the types of analytic…
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WordPress Security
Not to long ago I watched some Lynda tutorials and read up on WP security. Basically as with many things on this blog I am posting this information here as a reference that I can use in the future. Backing up Plugin – BackWPUp Description – Back up both files and db to any number…
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Moving a WordPress Website
WordPress is great don’t get me wrong, but the fact that they don’t seem to think or care that it’s possible that you’ll want to develop on a different domain to the one you finally take live annoys me. Drupal requires almost zero config to take from dev.example.com to just example.com. WordPress on the other…