Category Archives: WordPress

Microfinance – another way of spreading the love

Kiva is a non-profit organisation which facilitate micro loans to entrepreneurs all over the world. It inspires me each time I revisit the site and its reports. I was moved again today to support an internet cafe in Peru.. my US$25 contribution contributes the mere $625 Mr Yuri requires to get his business [...]
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Custom Admin Branding: code update

I love the Wordpress plugin Custom Admin Branding by Josh Byers..  who doesn’t love seeing their shiny, official name at the top of their admin panel? I noticed, though, that when when I updated the plugin to 1.3.5, my custom files were overwritten.. Doh!  It defeats the purpose of auto-update if we have to resurrect our [...]
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PHPlist link promotion method takes the cake

..err, excuse the pun   I’ve been using the great PHPList Form Integration by Jesse Heap, and have come across his really simple way of reaping some SEO benefit from all the work he puts into the free plugin.
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Add a Download link to the 1pixelout Audio Player

I love the Wordpress plugin Audio Player by 1pixelout, and highly recommend it to folk who want to present audio on their site.  I’d like to be able to offer the file for download too, though, so I’ve created a little download icon that sits beside the player.
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Custom Header Image for Wordpress Themes

A client wanted to be able to set a different header image for each page or post on his Wordpress site, so I’ve written this function for him. He can now set a custom image for each page header in a few steps: upload the cropped custom images via FTP set the custom field “header” in the relevant [...]
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