NextGEN Gallery, with it’s 4 trillion downloads and eleven-star rating is far and away the most popular gallery plugin for WordPress. It’s easy to use, simple to manage, and can ride a bike one-handed for almost a whole mile. But one thing that’s slightly annoying about NextGEN is it’s default lightbox Shutter Reloaded. Don’t get [...]

Believe it or not, this was never supposed to be a blog about tweaking WordPress – I’m actually a Flash developer. But clearly this is the kind of thing you ravenous wolves are after, and I’m nothing if not a slave to my analytics data. I’ve been asked a handful of times in the past [...]

Well that’s quite the most boring post title I think I’ve ever come up with. But if you’re here already, it means that you have at least some passing interest in either a) adding a ‘primary category’ to your posts, or 2) getting WordPress to autosave your post meta data properly. If this fascinating and [...]

I do so adore WordPress; with its endless flexibility, ease of use and shiny, greyish good looks, it fulfills all of my requirements as both a designer and developer, and fulfills my clients’ requirements as a straightforward, simple content management system. However, I did make some sloppy decisions with no forethought for the consequences in [...]

A little while ago I was working on the development side of an absolutely behemoth site that was intended to automate the staff hiring process for a healthcare company. For an easy way to create talks and seminars for potential employees I was utilising Event Espresso, a very comprehensive events management plugin for WordPress. Everything was going swimmingly and [...]