New plugin for editing bbPress author names

Published May 31st, 2017 under Plugins

I had a problem which involved editing bbPress post names. So I created a plugin to allow forum admins to easily change the author of any bbPress post.

Using WP CLI to run Cron jobs on multisite networks

Published January 29th, 2017 under Misc

I wrote a simple bash script which grabs all sites on a multisite network, then loops through and runs all the due WP Cron tasks for each individual site.

Audio Meta Box plugin

Published December 20th, 2016 under Plugins

I’ve created a new WordPress plugin. This one is fairly basic, and simply used for adding an audio file uploader to your site. You can read about it more on it’s plugin page.

Sticky sidebars

Published November 24th, 2016 under Uncategorized

I find that sticky sidebars are awkward to implement. There are plenty of examples out there, but I find most have problems.

Disable updates, keep notices

Published September 12th, 2016 under Plugins

Using DISALLOW_FILE_MODS disables WordPress update notices. Jay Dansand of Lawrence University has solved this via an elegant little plugin.

Cap cam

Published July 28th, 2016 under Misc

I am the hipster of helmet cams, but now I have “cap cam” 🙂 I just sticky taped my camera to my running cap to test out the Microsoft Hyperlapse software.

Potassium chloride seasoned popcorn

Published April 12th, 2016 under Food

We were taught that sodium chloride and potassium chloride behave the same chemically. Tonight I seasoned my popcorn with potassium chloride.

Dynamic page templates in WordPress 4.4

Published January 20th, 2016 under General

WordPress 4.4 added an improved system for dynamically adding page templates via plugins. To make this simple for you to implement yourselves, I’ve created this short example class.

Bose QC15 headphones

Published September 8th, 2015 under General

People sometimes ask why I bought a pair of €300 headphones. The answer is very simple, noise cancelling.

Attention Kiwi WordPress users

Published August 5th, 2015 under General

WordPress is being translated into the glorious language of Kiwi English 🙂 The hard yakka has been done by Tarei and I added a few extra strings in.