Making a WordPress Theme. From Scratch. Research + Information Architecture Introduction Making a new WordPress theme from scratch can seem daunting, but it’s pretty easy if you know the steps. This series will explore the techniques you need to employ to build a WordPress theme from scratch. In the series Read more…
Blackarch pacman package groups Install with pacman -S groupname to quickly install a bunch of tools in one command: This info is available in the blackarch developers guide here: https://blackarch.org/blackarch-guide-en.pdf – this post is a copy-paste of that info – there are a lot of red-team things in the list, Read more…
Multiloquent 6 2 01 Changelog development c33c95d – fix for mce content body development 8a1cbaf – fix for background colour inside tinymce development 864c9c8 – code cleanup development 37cc370 – aligning things development d8c91b7 – alinging things development dca23c7 – aligning elements development d112d09 – code tidy development afc6101 – Read more…
This is the change log for multiloquent 6 1 01 11a7be0 psr2 fixes abe3129 psr2 changes 80cbc30 misc tidy ups 00d17a1 tag link 5ea34c5 pagination dd3582f pagination still 9443ffa pagination b44f9be pagination 2a7d85b pagination 74f362f pagination 694c07f pagination 283bc75 pagination 8329440 pagination 59ed693 pagination 313d6f5 mb class in css 02ff70a Read more…
I have released multiloquent – the theme I use for jonathansblog to the public: you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/themes/multiloquent I have a github if you want a cutting-edge version (but it will be broken frequently) https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent This is the readme.txt for multiloquent theme v9 Multiloquent html5 / bootstrap theme Read more…
WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts This is a short post about setting up WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts. Buffer is an excellent service that allows posting to multiple social media sites (twitter, Facebook, google+, linkedin) If you run a wordpress site then there are Read more…
What to do when your mac or ipad or iphone is stolen. This is a horrible post to have to write. My house just got broken in to and my macbook pro and my ipad got stolen, along with three other laptops. Here is a list of things I did, Read more…
Social media experiments monthly report. as part of my year tracking social media things I am going to provide some monthly stats. this way if I make a breakthrough then it will be obvious =) i also get to play with graphs on google docs. This month I posted 8 Read more…
Automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social Read more…
A list of some useful tools for managing your twitter accounts. they have been divided into two categories: 1) follower management 2) analytics 1) follower management wefollow.com – fill in your details so that others can follow you untweeps.com can use 3 times a month to unfollow stale peoples tweepi.com Read more…
This year I have a plan. i am undertaking ‘a year in social media’ i have some aims. 1) get more friends i need to get more real friends. the more people I have that are interested in my website the more exposure I can get from it. 2) document Read more…
WordPress ultimate seo guide – This post is about making your wordpress perform better in search engine result pages. WordPress is pretty good, but its not perfect. this will tell you how to make it stronger. 1) what is seo? Making sure that your pages have the best chance of Read more…
Automatic facebook and twitter status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to facebook and twitter every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social network accounts the first Read more…
Defining and implementing a solid technical social media strategy. this post is all about how to get your content to as many ‘social media’ sites as possible with minimal effort and tracking it all so that you know whats happening 1 ) different types of sites, microblogging, news aggregation, etc Read more…
this one is excellent. I will tell you how to make automatic facebook status updates and tweets using google calendar. what you need: properly setup google calendar and ical sync properly setup iphone syncing with gmail and google calendar properly setup ping.fm account ok; so…. there are two methods here; Read more…
This tutorial is about syncing all your webmail email accounts to gmail, and then sync that to your apple mail.app and your iphone the hardest part about having so many email accounts and social networking accounts is finding the time to log into them all and check for mail and Read more…
Update: ping.fm is pretty much dead. use the twitterfeed method here instead automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every Read more…
you hopefully have all your contacts synced between your iphone / ipod touch, your mac addressbook and your google contacts. if not see my blog post about it here once you have the whole syncing between your mac addressbook and the cloud (and then with your ipod / iphone) then Read more…
My wee cousin lisa mitchell is touring the uk to promote her new album (which just went gold in australia!!) she is doing a lot of gigs – just now she is touring with newton faulkner =) once she is done with that she is doing her own tour Here’s Read more…
changed social networking icons on individual story pages wrapped a div round the lead story boxes and gave it a min-height to make it play nice wrapped a div round the bottom stories and gave it a min-height to make it play nice changed the icons for the sidebar ‘more Read more…
I like the radio, Its not like the TV – with the radio you can listen to it while you do other things (unless you are recording, mixing or mastering =) things like checking emails, sending replies to messages on the numerous social networking sites and generally all the other Read more…
Well, ive been ranting on about social networking this and that recently, and ive almost cracked it. almost. there are a couple of problems with all these social networking things – the first is that you sign up to 50 of them. the second is that you have to put Read more…
Well, I got rid of the ajax, and went on a kind of useability spree – ive made all the links the same color (except two which I am fixing now) they are all a mad yellow / gold colour, which I might change. but at least you can see Read more…
This post is about Syncing all my contacts. Ok, so I have a lot of contacts, they are all in different places. all I really want is to have one list of names, email addresses and phone numbers.I want this list in my phone and on all the services that Read more…
Syncing photos between social networks is hard to do. i think I might just make a crude little app that bruteforces its way to do it, but I dont really have the time. though with all the API’s out there I could sell it for a fiver a time and Read more…
I have accounts on Facebook, bebo and myspace, but I organise all my stuff from outlook, always have, always will. I’m trying to work on a way that when I update one service that it updates all of them, like uploading photo’s to my flickr account and having it automatically Read more…
Ooooh, rancid are gonna (hopefully) release a new album i just ripped this from some site that I subscribe to, and ive just fired up rancid on my winamp Rancid is working on a new album that is expected to drop around the same time the punk-rockers dive into their Read more…