Published September 15th, 2012 under General
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.
Published September 1st, 2012 under General
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.
Published August 4th, 2012 under General
I was having a dreadful time converting from the UTC time stamp stored in the WordPress database to the local time set in the admin panel. I ended up writing the following handy little function to convert the times easily.
Published June 18th, 2012 under General
A simple filter to automatically add a class attribute like widget-order-1 to all widgets within sidebars.
Published June 15th, 2012 under General
Quick code snippet for anyone attempting to filter get_header() in WordPress. This is a useful feature for developers wanting to modify the header image of a site without needing to mess with the theme.
Published June 13th, 2012 under General
Including convoluted chunks of code to WordPress themes so that you can provide support for advanced title tags is mostly pointless since the same functionality is provided by SEO plugins.
Published April 25th, 2012 under General
As of WordPress 3.4, the way custom headers and backgrounds are handled by WordPress is changing. This won’t make any real difference to end-users, but those of us who make themes should being transitioning to the new system immediately. On the current trunk version of […]
Published October 8th, 2011 under General
Unbeknownst to many internet surfers, the data you submit to a website which does not use https, is free for anyone with appropriate access to see. This includes usernames, cookies and passwords – stuff you don’t want random people finding! Often these are not easily […]
Published November 18th, 2010 under General
WordPress Version 3.1 (due for release within the next month or two) will include an admin menu bar similar to the one seen on WordPress.com and Vipers’ Admin bar plugin. You can read more about the development of the admin bar in WordPress Trac. You […]
Published June 11th, 2010 under General
Aside from the known issues with flash, there is a major problem with the default setup of most flash objects which many people are unaware of. A quick search through our support forum, will show up dozens of questions relating to Adobe Flash objects and […]
