Better image compression settings for WordPress
Improve the speed of your WordPress website by reducing the file size of the automatically-generated images.
Published on 23rd February 2016
Blog posts about WordPress
WordPress is a web-browser-based content management system, which started life as a spin-off of b2/cafelog before becoming the most widespread CMS in the world. I began casually helping out with b2/cafelog in 2001, and migrated my early websites to WordPress’ first version in January 2004. I’ve built personal and professional sites using WordPress ever since: the biggest project being a multilingual, international multi-site installation for a former employer.
My First App
Experiences building my first ever phone app, using Cordova and jQuery to deliver content from a WordPress installation.
Published on 26th November 2015
WordCamp Switzerland 2015
Lessons learned and presentations seen at this year's WordPress conference in Zurich.
Published on 19th September 2015
SEO für WordPress
Zusammenfassung der Themen bezüglich SEO, die wir gestern an ein WordPress-Meetup in Bern besprochen haben.
Published on 28th August 2015
Two new plugins published for WordPress
I finally got around to reading the submission details for the official WordPress Plugin directory this week and submitted a couple of simple plugins. They have now been approved and are available for free to anyone using WordPress.
Published on 21st August 2015
Reusability thanks to modular coding
My erstwhile mentor in Brienz taught me throughout our years working together that if a website functionality is worth creating, it's worth creating so that it can be used in more than one project. Programme once, install many times. This…
Published on 20th August 2015
Twitter Cards – adding previews and summaries to a tweeted blog post
Facebook implemented Open Graph tags a long time ago, so that links from blogs and websites automatically pull in preview images and a summary text. That helps the viewer to see more about the linked page without having to click…
Published on 30th June 2015
Containers and modules in web design
Using modules in front end web programming to allow more flexibility and more independence from site layouts for content elements.
Published on 29th June 2015
Simple alternatives to CAPTCHA
Google announced yesterday that it’s come up with a great new way of avoiding the need for website visitors to fill out the CAPTCHA; the ubiquitous “type the letters from the image into the following field” feature of many…
Published on 4th December 2014
CMS: separating authorship from layout
My first job in Switzerland was for a newspaper publisher, where I remained for seven years whilst co-developing a newspaper and website publishing system. Building on the basic experience I was gaining whilst making little blogs using b2/cafelog…
Published on 18th June 2014
New programming techniques in my daily workflow
While my main hobby in my private life is photography, I earn my living through programming websites. Since moving to !frappant back in April last year - has it really been a year already?! - I've been striving…
Published on 11th April 2012
WordPress function: getting attachment and thumbnail captions for a post
It’s rare that I post anything heavily internet-related or even extremely code-geeky, so please skip this entry if it’s of no interest! I was asked today if I knew how to get the captions of Post attachments in WordPress and…
Published on 16th August 2011
coll8 Social Media Streaming
coll8, named as an abbreviation of the English word "collate", allows users of the WordPress publishing software to provide website visitors with a page which collates all of their social media streams into one place: from Twitter and Flickr to…
Published on 25th September 2010
Categorization bug in WordPress
I’ve been using WordPress for years and in the main, it’s a fantastic piece of collaborative software. However, the fact that the standalone version which is installed on one’s own server is supported mainly by community effort instead of…
Published on 26th November 2009
Full ahead
Plans are progressing faster and faster, as we get more and more tasks finished in advance of leaving for our trip to Scotland at the weekend. I’ve installed and configured the newest software behind this journal (version 2.3 of WordPress)…
Published on 25th September 2007