Ryan Hellyer

Sometimes you need to know the blog ID for a site on a WordPress multisite installation. This code displays that information in the site footer.

Prism reminded me of a conversation from 2010. I’ve published a section of it below where the presence of a Prism like program is predicted.

I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. There has been a lot of activity in the WordPress news world over the past year. Our own WP Realm has been gaining momentum and the new […]

Use a blog-deleted.php file which redirects to another site/page whenever a deleted or suspended blog is visited in WordPress multisite.

I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. Following on from “Are your plugins secure?, this post is a simple breakdown on what to look for security-wise when auditing plugins. In the previous post I […]

I had some difficulties ironing out bugs in an implementation of the WordPress theme customiser when using image uploaders. Here is a very simple piece of code which will hopefully help guide you in the right direction.

I’m blogging about WordPress over at WP Realm. I’ll still be posting code tidbits, plugins and all sorts of other things right here, but my broad scoped or generic WordPress posts will be posted over there.

I originally authored this post on WP Realm, but I moved it back here after that website folded. Those of you who have been in the community for a long time will remember the TalkPress project. It was intended as a hosted platform for running […]

Regular site visitors may have noticed a rather major change in this site today, the URL changed! The site has moved from PixoPoint.com today to it’s new home at geek.hellyer.kiwi. Probably no one else will care, but this is a major move for me as I’d worked very hard on building a brand name and so I thought I’d write a post about it.

I went on the hunt for a tool to let me DDOS my own site and provide me with some nice little graphs to show me how slow (or fast) it is under heavy load. The tool I used was blitz.io.