jQuery Plug-in: Scalable Background Image
A few days ago a friend approached me about an interesting background effect he has seen on a website and how he wanted to implement it into his website. I was curious about how it worked so decided to...
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It’s great when you run into old code that you’d completely forgotten about. While reviewing a couple of old sites I’d put together I ran into some old jQuery animation code the client had requested....
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jQuery Plug-in: Tab Down
This simple plug-in has been on my TODO list for quite a while, as I’ve seen the effect used on many websites. It seems particularly useful for displaying contact details / social media updates. I’m...
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WordPress plug-in: Post Thesaurus
Over the past few days I’ve been working on a new WordPress plug-in, one that I personally have desperately needed recently. It’s called ‘Post Thesaurus’ and it does exactly what you’d expect it to do....
View ArticleHeadspace2 JavaScript error
Update: An update of Headspace2 has just been released that seems to solve this issue as well as a few others. After updating to WordPress 3.0 (yay!) I decided to check the plug-ins that I’ve written...
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WordPress plug-in: Snipplr Snippets
Recently I blogged about the fact that Snipplr was under new management!, and what great news that is. You can see the changes being made already, fingers crossed they manage to nail the spam issue....
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Aloha Editor – Content editing the HTML5 way
The number of times I’ve built a website based on a CMS only to have the client utter the words “Oh I’m confused, it’d be so much quicker if you made the changes”. Right, so the CMS was a bit of a...
View ArticlejCarousel missing item width
On a recent project the UX team put together a set of wireframes where the use of carousels featured heavily. Luckily when you choose a JavaScript library like jQuery you have quite a few carousel...
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WordPress plug-ins and svn:externals
So last week I decided to play with the post-commit hook in Subversion which allows you to easily update your WordPress install after committing changes to your repository. After some trial and error...
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WordPress Stats broken? Grab yourself a Jetpack!
Last week one of my favourite WordPress plug-ins broke: WordPress Stats. For anyone who doesn’t use this fantastic plug-in it’s a very clean and simple way of viewing visitor statistics directly on...
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