Fish Can't Whistle - Web, WordPress and Mobile Development
Custom Background Per Page
On 19, Apr 2012 | 21 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 | No 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. 
WordPress Events
On 23, Dec 2011 | No Comments | In FCW WordPress Plugins | By Andy
WordPress Events gives you a simple interface for adding events to your site and displays them in a beautiful calendar with pop up details.
Simply add events in an interface you are already used to and display your calendar by adding the shortcode [calendar] to any page of post!
New in 0.2 !
Multiple user calendars! Allow individual users to have their own calendar and display different calendars by specifying a user id in the shortcode. For example [calendar user=2] will display the calendar for the user with an ID of 2.
Built in sharing generates tiny urls that when linked to opens the shared event in a pop up just as if the user had clicked on it.
Google maps integration allows you to add a map of the venue.
Download a pdf user guide from here http://fishcantwhistle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/wordpress-events-user-guide.pdf
0.9 now uses ajax to load events to save on load time.
ChimpPress
On 22, Dec 2011 | 2 Comments | In FCW WordPress Plugins | By Andy
*** THIS IS A BETA RELEASE ***
ChimpPress provides an interface for creating and managing your MailChimp campaigns without having to leave your WordPress dashboard.
Current features of ChimpPress
- Create bespoke HTML emails using the intuitive drag and drop editor.
- Add padding and colours to specific cells in your email or to the entire campaign.
- Select from a number of layout templates and then add multiple rows and columns as needed.
- Receive in-depth stats about your campaign.
- Manage your subscribers.
All you need is a MailChimp account and an API key and you can start creating bespoke html emails!
25
Oct
2011
In getshopped
hack
php
WordPress
WordPress 3.0
WordPress Development
WordPress Plugins
wp e-commerce
By Andy
Getshopped – Add more details to sales CSV
On 25, Oct 2011 | 2 Comments | In getshopped, hack, php, WordPress, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, wp e-commerce | By Andy
I have previously showed I added shipping columns to the sales logs page in a getshopped (Wp-Ecommerce) installation. This was fine but now we need that data to show up in the csv download.
Here’s how to do it-
06
Oct
2011
In getshopped
hack
php
WordPress
WordPress 3.0
WordPress Development
WordPress Plugins
wp e-commerce
By Andy
GetShopped – Add order without shipping column to sales view
On 06, Oct 2011 | One Comment | In getshopped, hack, php, WordPress, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, wp e-commerce | By Andy
The sales view in the wp-ecommerce (GetShopped) is great but it will show you the total price of an order rather than the price without shipping, the shipping, and the total.
To introduce this functionality you do have to hack the plugin files, but there is not another way as I can not see any hooks I could make use of. If I have missed one, please do let me know!
