Ryan Hellyer

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.

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.

A simple filter to automatically add a class attribute like widget-order-1 to all widgets within sidebars.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Our JavaScript guru Ronald Huereca has launched a terrific new e-book explaining the technical side of using AJAX with WordPress. If you have ever wanted to learn how to add AJAX features into your WordPress powered site, then we highly recommend checking out Ronald’s new […]