Simon Wheatley

Tag: Development

  • Eeek! The load-page-new.php and load-page.php actions have vanished!

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    So WordPress 3.0 is out, and some of the useful admin area load-* hooks that I use have vanished or changed. To refresh your memory, there are individual and specific hooks which run whenever WordPress loads an admin page. These hooks are named after the PHP file in the URL to the admin page, for…

  • Ordering post meta value, numerically

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    I have a client who wants to show a list of their posts ordered by the numerical value of a post meta field (custom fields are referred to as post meta data in the WordPress code, so I’ll be following that convention from now on). Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a way to do…

  • WordPress plugin development presentation

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    My presentation for WordCamp UK on WordPress Plugin Development (although I will update this soon with better slide notes): PDF version.

  • Velocity Markup documentation

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    Velocity is a Java centric template markup language/syntax, and the documentation for using it seems a little Google shy for some reason… so, here it is, for me as much as anyone: Velocity markup documentation.

  • I’ve made a useless WordPress plugin…

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    …which you might find useful if you develop plugins with system requirements, like a particular version of PHP. This plugin is a simple proof of concept for a method of messaging the user when they activate a plugin.

  • Exclude Pages now hides child pages where appropriate

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    Exclude Pages (my WordPress plugin which allows you to remove pages from site navigation) now handles child pages more gracefully. Previously, when you excluded a page any child page would drop down a level, taking it’s place… not what I wanted, and not something I’d noticed because I was only dealing with single level navigation…

  • Exporting from MySQL to CSV

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    Everytime I need to do this I go into at least five minutes of Googling for a decent solution. The problem is that a lot of people don’t have access to the commandline, so the solutions all reference PHPMyAdmin which is, you know, OK, but I don’t use it or want to install it just…

  • Staggering onwards is not good

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    For animals, pain is a signal that something is wrong and it needs fixing. If pain didn’t exist we’d all be accidentally leaving our hand on the burning gas hob, or on the electric bar fire and wondering about the burning smell long after we’d been injured. We want to know when something isn’t right,…

  • Disappearing Photoshop cursors

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    I’ve had a problem for some time now: my cursors in Photoshop CS3 on OS X are invisible. I’ve no idea why, or how it happened, but it’s really awkward when you can’t see where your mask is going to start, or where you text cursor is going to blink into being. The solution After…

  • The Government double charges us for data

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    I’ve just felt sufficiently exercised to write to my MP, about the UK government charging for information they’ve collected with our (the UK taxpayers) money. For example, I’m doing a location based events search for Arts & Kids. The data underpinning this has been collected by OS and the Royal Mail, using tax payers money,…