Category Archives: Tips

Moved a WordPress installation and it’s linking to the wp-upload folder?

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Gareth Thompson

UPDATED : I rushed this one out. I’m now adding more meat to the bones on what this post is about! If you use a development environment for the WordPress sites you build you may have come across a rather … Continue reading →

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Top WordPress Plugins – My vote

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Gareth Thompson

As you may or may not know, I love WordPress. I’ve been actively developing with it for over 4 years, and have seen it progress from a simplistic blogging tool to the awesome fully-fledged Content Management System that it is … Continue reading →

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Simple PHP twitter feed with caching

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Gareth Thompson

Been using this on a number of projects of late. Hopefully you’ll find this useful! http://app.kodery.com/s/268   For a demo, look at how the twitter feed appears here (footer) Or the code : <?php $twitter_name = ‘cssgareth’; $number_of_tweets = 2; … Continue reading →

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Simple, google inspired form input styling

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Gareth Thompson

Inspired by Google’s recent approach to form inputs, i’ve come up with my own (very simple) form styling. It’s not meant to be anything special, but i would love to think you’ll use this to base your input styling… form … Continue reading →

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Content Baseplate

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Gareth Thompson

Ever handed over a project to a client, looked at the page a week later and gone “oh crap, i forgot to style *that* element”, well rest assured you’re not alone. When writing the CSS for a project it’s all … Continue reading →

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Creative ways for businesses to use Valentines Day

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Gareth Thompson

We found this article on the web from Erin Lewis of Best Promotions and felt it gave a few nice tips on how to use Valentines in your business. Valentine’s Day is traditionally a day to celebrate the most important … Continue reading →

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Opening jQuery Fancybox on page load

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Gareth Thompson

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I recently came across a problem where i needed to open jQuery’s brilliant FancyBox plugin on page load. Unfortunately, i couldn’t see a route to do this through it’s own API, so i delved into a way round this using … Continue reading →

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