I’ve only really had to do this myself a couple of times and each time I’m asked I’m always left thinking, now, where do I begin? For one thing getting the Facebook page’s RSS feed URL is hard enough, so I thought I’d write a little post on how to get that URL, parse it [...]

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I coded up this clean WordPress theme for @callumchapman (it was designed by Callum) to give him his first customised theme for his blog, exclusive to Circlebox Creative. The theme includes a customised author page, this displays their profile along with their posts.

Testimonial: “Ben offered great services at a great price I couldn’t refuse. He [...]

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This isn’t the plugin that I’ve been raving about building for the past week or so but just a plugin I thought about and wrote in my lunch hour today. So just hold out a little longer before I release my first full blown WordPress plugin. Anyways, read on and download the plugin, it makes [...]

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Welcome to part four of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This 4th part covers setting up WordPress’s amazing comment system, getting your pages (pages.php) looking like the rest of your blog, setting up your dynamic highlighting nav’ and more! I’ve also provided code snippets below which would of bored you all to death explaining so [...]

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Welcome to part three of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This third part introduces you to The Loop and getting your blog to work with WordPress’s main function, blogging! I’ll also step into plugins to allow you to create thumbnails for your posts.

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That’s right, I have gone mad, well no, I’m just feeling generous to you wonderful people who take it upon yourselves to read my blog. I’m giving away one copy of Espresso to one of you lucky people and getting your mits on it couldn’t be any easier but first just to clarify I’m not [...]

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Welcome to part two of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! Since last time I have come up with a design for the blog and coded it up into XHTML and CSS. Before moving onto part two I recommend that you come up with your own design and code it up too. Though if you want [...]

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Right lets get straight to it as this is only a quick tip, do note though that we’re only scratching the very surface of PHP classes.
We’ll be creating two files, our main page index.php and our class file class.helloworld.php. The only thing we’ll need on our index.php is the code below and the calling of [...]

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Welcome to part one of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This first part covers downloading and installing a localhost called MAMP, downloading WordPress and setting up a database for it and finally, installing WordPress itself. This time around I’ll be doing screen-casts as opposed to saying do this do that, so you should be able [...]

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In this quick tip, I’ll show you how to display custom messages to your visitors depending on where they click from onto your website. I saw this technique and at first thought, how is this being done?! But I’d forgot the value’s PHP can store in $_SERVER
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