10 Google Wave Invites Up For Grabs!
We interrupt your usual WordPress News to tell you of a competition to win a Google Wave invite!
Newspaper Style Posts
This is a very simple plugin that splits your post into two columns, as you find in newspaper articles, which when used with a ‘News Theme’, adds that finishing touch.
Default Custom Fields
As one of my previous tutorials on creating a dynamic slideshow from your posts showed, there are a lot of useful and interesting uses for Custom Fields. One use that I make of custom fields is to pull an image from a post and display it on my homepage, however I don’t always need something [...]
Per Category Intro Text
Most blogs that use WordPress are set up so that their posts fall under different categories, and all these posts can be listed on one category page. But what if you wanted to add some kind of description about that category when viewing only those posts?
Creating A Dynamic Crossfading Image Display Of Recent Posts
Over the past few months, the WordPress theme community has been given a new lease of life with the advent of ‘News Themes’. These themes often have a very unconventional layout on their homepage that recreates the layout of a newspaper front page for example. One of the key features of these themes in my [...]
High Quality Photoshop Brick Brushes
I recently took some pictures of bricks that I see on my way to uni everyday, and converted them to Photoshop brushes.
They have been made in Photoshop CS3, but I’m not sure if they are compatible with other versions. All the brushes are high quality, that is, 2500px x 2500px.
10 Things To Do To Help Your New Blog
As this blog is new on the scene, I’m doing a lot to try and promote my posts. It therefore seemed like a great time to write a post about what I’ve done, and what I’m planning on doing, so that others can use it to help them on their way too.
WordPress 2.5 Plugin Style Guide
As I’ve been running the 2.5 release candidates on this blog, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to upgrade my plugin New User Email Setup to make it display in line with the new admin interface being implemented.
Getting That Cool Gritty Look in Photoshop
Since I’ve started getting more and more into Photoshop, I’ve been reading a lot of tutorials on creating images and editing photos, and one of my favourite resources is Photoshop Insider, written by Scott Kelby who is the President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) amongst other things.
The Unstandard WordPress Theme
On Wednesday, Derek at 5ThirtyOne made a modified version of his current theme available for download with the intention of “breaking the typical blog mold”. For me this was an exciting opportunity to see how he deals with his homepage. Instead of using the typical excerpt to display what the post is going to be [...]
The New Home of webdev.mysoutham.com
Following several server errors and downtime, I have decided to move hosts, and at the same time I purchased a new domain name; epicalex.com. I was slightly worried about losing my Google Page Rank, but I felt that the rebranding and move away from a subdomain was worth the extra effort.
