Crowdfund SW1

Posted in Websites on December 22nd, 2011 Crowdfund SW1

Crowdfund SW1 helps you to support struggling charities and community groups in south Westminster. Established in 2011, their unique website enables you to target donations and support to where it is most needed.

You will find a range of exciting community focused projects that need your help. With only a couple of clicks you can help a grass roots local project get off the ground and make a real difference to those it serves. Whether you are an individual, an organisation, school or business, please show your support by making a donation to a project of your choice.

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iPhorm – Building Forms Just Got Easy : WordPress Plugin Review

Posted in Articles on November 30th, 2011 iPhorm

I’ve been wanting to write some plugin reviews for a while now have only managed a couple. So when the guys over at themeCatcher asked me to take a look at their new plugin iPhorm, I thought it was a great opportunity to write one.

So iPhorm, a form builder for WordPress, yes before you say it, I know there are a number of form building plugins out there at the moment (such as Contact Form 7 and Form Builder), but you really should take a look and see how this plugin compares, it won’t disappoint I promise.

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Category Ajax Chain Select – Re-written from scratch : WordPress Plugin

Posted in Plugins on November 29th, 2011 Category Ajax Chain Select – Re-written from scratch : WordPress Plugin

So after over 2 years I have finally got around to updating this plugin. I was going to add the new features that people had asked to the previous version but as it was my first plugin it was very unstable. Instead I have re-written it from scratch and I believe made it more stable, faster and more customisable than before.

A number of new features have been added including customisable labels and titles, post counts, excluding taxonomies and support for custom taxonomies.

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Social Sharing Toolkit Plugin WordPress :: Use within Loop

Posted in Articles on November 17th, 2011 Social Sharing Toolkit Plugin WordPress :: Use within Loop

I recently installed the Social Sharing Toolkit by Marijn Rongen for a project I am working on. Its a fantastic plugin and very simple to use but I came across an issue when trying to add it within the Loop on my post listing pages. Looking through the documentation I found no reference of any PHP functions you could use. After digging around the Plugin code it’s self for a while I finally found a solution that works.

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Why Aren’t Splash Pages Dead Yet?

Posted in Articles on February 25th, 2011 Why Aren't Splash Pages, Dead Yet?

Splash pages; a marketers dream but a developers nightmare, that’s how I would describe them. Obviously as I am a developer I’m going to be slightly biased but really, how can something that goes against web standards and SEO so badly, still be used so heavily on today’s Internet?

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