How to Add a Photo Credit to a Featured Image in WordPress
Adding a photo credit to WordPress is pretty easy with my Add Custom Fields to Media Uploader plugin for WordPress, it’s a free download that’ll help you spruce up your website and give credit for your...
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Put a Bird on it For WordPress
In response to Daniel Bachhuber’s Portland offer for WordPress code reviews … I present (what I believe to be) the first Put a Bird on It plugin for WordPress. You’ll need to save the bird image to a...
View ArticleGet a category count in WordPress
I’m always strugging to fine easy short codes to make my WordPress experience even better and this week, I had an opportunity to write a new short code for thisismyurl.com that would allow me to add a...
View ArticleEasy fading links with CSS3
If you’d like to see a great way to enhance your hyperlinks without using JavaScript, here’s a CSS3 method that will allow you to create smooth fading on your links. a { opacity: 1; transition: opacity...
View ArticleFetching the excerpt outsite the loop
Often when I’m creating my own loops with get_posts() I also need to fetch the excerpt for a post but since I’m outside the official loop, it returns issues. I’ve written this simple helper function...
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How to speed up your website with Pingdom Tools
One of the best ways to improve customer satisfaction with your website, as well as your ranking on popular search engines is to increase your website’s speed but often as a web designer (or website...
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Newspaper design for the New Brunswick Beacon
The New Brunswick Beacon, part of the St. Thomas Journalism program is a regional newspaper servicing all of New Brunswick. The website has over 25 student journalists, an editorial team,...
View ArticleWebsite design for M&T Deli
Located in the heart of Fredericton, M&T Deli delivers fresh lunches and event catering throughout the capital region. Their website was designed to provide an online presence, and ensure both...
View ArticleHow to create a WordPress plugin, the easy way.
WordPress plugin development, the easy way. This talk is scheduled for November 3rd, 2012 at George Brown College in Toronto as part of the WordCamp Toronto 2012 schedule, as well as a (most likely...
View ArticleHow to create a site specific plugin in WordPress
WP Beginner recently had a simple tutorial on how to diable the XML-RPC in WordPress, as @nacin points out, it’ll be enabled by default in WordPress 3.5. Security wary website owners would be wise to...
View ArticleMake the Jump to GIT and IDE`s
January 19, 2013 Rogers Campus, 333 Bloor Street, Toronto Canada A midlevel developer talk aimed at helping developers make the transition from solo programming to team focused programming, also...
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Seven easy ways to make WordPress far more secure
We’re about to make your WordPress installation dramatically more secure with by doing seven simple things to your blog. Hopefully everybody’s already done them and will just use this as a free...
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How to Remove Extra Contact Options from the WordPress Admin
If you’re looking to remove the AOL Instant Messanger, Yahoo IM and Google Talk options from your profile page in WordPress, simply download this small piece of code and install it in your...
View ArticleWhat social media platform is right for your business marketing?
The internet is full of hundreds of social networks, most are unique niche markets but overall there are four major social networks that I believe every business should consider using. The big four...
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Learn about WordPress Child Themes in Toronto
If you’re in the Toronto area tonight (and not fighting the snow storm) there will be there was going to be a WordPress session on Child Theme development, hosted by the Toronto WordPress Developers...
View Article4 simple WordPress tutorial videos to get your started
Recently I’ve been helping a friend learn the basics of WordPress and something horrifying occurred to me. WordPress is insanely hard if you don’t know what you’re doing. Now, that might seem like a...
View Article11 free tools online tools for small business marketing
Every business wants to increase their sales, right? Well here’s a list of eleven free online tools that can help make your business a superstar without costing you a penny. WordPress I talk about...
View ArticleYour entire company should be part of your social media solution
One common question I get asked about using social media for business is how to divide the labour, and which people are best to handle social marketing but I think these business owners are missing the...
View ArticleLearn WordPress in Toronto and Southern Ontario
WordPress is a wonderfully impressive package but as I mentioned last week, there is a lot to learn with it and not everybody can learn from online resources as well as others. So with that in mind,...
View Article7 free tools for building your business online
WordPress.com The free, online website building tool run by Automattic. This is the fastest, easiest way to get a website up and running quickly for any small business. It’s free, with paid options for...
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