My presentation for WordCamp UKÂ on WordPress Plugin Development (although I will update this soon with better slide notes):Â PDF version.
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Interspersing your post listing with date headers in WordPress
Update: OK, so at least one person wanted it as a plugin, so feel free to download Intermittent Date Headers. Here’s a code snippet that’s not really worth making into a plugin. It’s designed to put date headers into your main post listing page. As an example, you could end up with: Heading: March, 2008 Post: dated …
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Error handling all the way up to 11
WordPress code has cleaned up enough in the latest release that you can crank error detection all the way up to 11. #
Good turn out for the first BarCamp Manchester. Looking forward to the day ahead. # Great talk from Dan Morris on the BBC’s work with teens. Waiting nervously for my slot on WordPress now. # BarCamp Manchester has decamped to the bar to disintegrate. Well done to Paul Robinson for pulling and holding the day …
After leaving it til the last minute, I’m resurrecting my WordPress talk for Barcamp. Let’s see if I can manage a working laptop this time! #
Exclude Pages now hides child pages where appropriate
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 …
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Simon Wheatley: Introduction to WordPress at BarCamp Leeds 2007
My session for BarCamp Leeds was on “An Introduction to WordPress”, and I put together a nice graphical presentation for it… only to find the laptop playing up and unable to connect to the screen!
BarCamp Leeds
Very excited to be signed up for my first BarCamp, and the first BarCamp Leeds ever. Big thanks to Deb, Imran Ali, Tom Scott & Dominic Hodgson for organising this. Now I’ve just got to work out what to talk about, ideas so far: WordPress as a CMS Events searches for Children & the Arts …
Staggering onwards is not good
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, …
Recent Listening on WordPress
I’ve reconnected to Last.FM to capture what I’m listening to. You can see the results on the sidebar under “Recent Listening”.