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Mar
2013
In development
General
php
WordPress
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By Andy
An apology and an explanation
On 26, Mar 2013 | No Comments | In development, General, php, WordPress, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development, WordPress Multisite, WordPress Plugins | By Andy
This post is aimed at the lovely people who are using one or more of our WordPress plugins.
jQuery Plugin – saveForm
On 09, Nov 2012 | 2 Comments | In development, jquery, jQuery Plugins | By Andy
jQuery plugin, saveForm is a that allows you to specify form fields to be saved in a cookie for the next time a user visits the form.
16
Oct
2012
In development
mySQL
php
phpMyAdmin
WordPress
WordPress 3.0
WordPress Development
WordPress Multisite
By Andy
Undo Domain Mapping – WordPress Multisite
On 16, Oct 2012 | One Comment | In development, mySQL, php, phpMyAdmin, WordPress, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development, WordPress Multisite | By Andy
I recently had a situation where a site within a WordPress multisite was domain mapped and the DNS at the registrar was changed away from the multisite without the multisite install being updated first. This meant that the WordPress site was not available and the client wanted certain information from the original WordPress dashboard.
Cookie Confirm
On 04, Oct 2012 | 36 Comments | In FCW WordPress Plugins | By Andy
By providing an unintrusive notification in a customisable location Cookie Confirm allows you to give your users the choice to accept cookies on your WordPress site.
When a visitor browses to a website with the Cookie Confirm plugin installed for the first time, they are shown a banner asking for their consent to cookies. The banner explains which cookies the website intends to set, and gives the visitor the option to consent or to deny each type of cookie. As well as being able to consent to cookies for the website they visited, the banner allows the visitor to consent to cookies for all websites which use the Cookie Confirm plugin.
If the visitor chooses to set preferences for all sites, we set third party cookies on our domain (cookieconsent.silktide.com) to remembers their choices. This cookies are completely anonymous, non-trackable, and are only used to remember the visitors preferences.
Each time a visitor browses to a website with the Cookie Confirm plugin installed, the plugin checks to see if they have set preferences for all sites. If so, it doesn't need to show the banner and the website already knows which sorts of cookies it is allowed to set.
Current features include-
- Customise position and style of notification
- Specify which type of cookie your site uses and customise the descriptions of these
- Choose from Explicit or Implicit consent
- Allow users to save their choice for all websites using the Cookie Consent software
Coming soon-
- Ability to customise all text strings
- Add your own cookie definitions
- Add proper support for SSL
Custom Background Per Page
On 19, Apr 2012 | 149 Comments | In FCW WordPress Plugins | By Andy
Easily add background options on a per page/post basis.
Currently the plugin includes the following features-
- Add a background image
- Options for vertical & horizontal repeating
- Fade out the bottom edge of your background image
- Choose background colour
- Child pages of a page with a custom background will inherit the parent page background settings.
WordPress themes for UK Politician
On 11, Apr 2012 | 2 Comments | In development, General, WordPress, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Themes | By Andy
Recently I have found myself working for a number of people and organisations involved with UK government and politics. One of my clients needed to find a WordPress theme that we could use a starting point to rebuild their blog.
How to fix the recent errors with TubePress and Vimeo
On 28, Feb 2012 | No Comments | In hack, php, WordPress, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development | By Andy
I was informed last night that a previously working site using the TubePress WordPress plugin had suddenly started throwing a fatal error.
The error was this
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in ***/wp-content/plugins/tubepress/sys/classes/org/tubepress/impl/factory/commands/VimeoFactoryCommand.class.php on line 164
After much digging around it turns out to be a problem with the Vimeo API rather than TubePress and a simple fix will sort you out.
Graceful JavaScript degradation
On 08, Feb 2012 | No Comments | In development, hack, javascript, jquery | By Andy
jQuery is great and I love it.
Internet Explorer is awful and I hate it.
Unfortunately there are times when I can’t have it all my own way though; sometimes I have to build for IE (6+) and that means finding a way to deal with the lovely feature < IE8 has of deciding not to load JavaScript every now and again for no apparent reason.
Internet Explorer 6 is older than the oldest eMac
On 03, Feb 2012 | No Comments | In development | By Andy
Internet Explorer 6 was released in 2001. A year later apple released the eMac.
Managing a development environment
On 05, Jan 2012 | No Comments | In General | By Andy
Everyone has their own way of developing but for people new to development, how to work with files on a server can be a little confusing. So here’s what I do. 
