WordPress Tools & Skills: My Top 5

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WordPress can be a complex Content Management System, not necessarily in it’s size or function; but seeing a completed and fully customised WordPress can bear little resemblance to the original ‘vanilla’ installation. This is because WordPress can be customised to such a degree that it matches pretty much any requirement exactly; so as a Web [...]

Custom Delegate error with ARC

When Apple introduced ARC (automatic reference counting), it meant a great deal of change for much of our existing code. New errors seem to crop up every time we convert an older project across to the new format. This particular error concerned some custom delegates that we’d set up to handle communication between a UIPopOverController [...]

Theme Options Disappearing After Migration?

My Theme Options decided to no longer work after upload and migration to a live server. I could access the Theme Options page, but I couldn’t reference any Theme Options from my scripts or even from within the Theme Options page – i.e. it wouldn’t save. I searched for ages to find a solution, digging [...]

Surface: Microsoft’s Secret Announcement:

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Contained is the announcment of the Microsoft Surface. All information in ‘The Announcement’ section is obtained directly from The Verge’s live blog announcement during their attendance of the event. Their live blog can be viewed here: The Verge’s live blog Previously… Microsoft have been keeping this event in LA hush hush over the past couple [...]

A Quick Way to Debug WordPress 500 Errors

I’ve built and uploaded three WordPress based websites this week, so at the moment I’m pretty ‘well-schooled’ in how to migrate from a local to live server. I had a curious error with the third. Somehow, it just wouldn’t display after uploading. Here’s my usual workflow: Upload Files to Server Export SQL Database Import SQL [...]

Related Posts for Multiple Category Solution

On my WordPress post view page, I wish to show posts in the same category as the currently selected post. My difficulty here was managing this to handle multiple categories, but also, a way to track which was the ‘category’ page that you viewed the page at. For example, a standard route though the website [...]

resignFirstResponder ‘bug’ in UIModalPresentationFormSheet

So err… this has been killing me for a while. The keyboard on my UIModalPresentationFormSheet would not Fuck Off! The problem I presented a modal view controller with a modalPresentationStyle of UIModalPresentationFormSheet, but further to that, my view controller was presented within a UINavigationController. Here’s a quote from Apple: [with regard to UIModalPresentationFormSheet] To avoid [...]

Out With the Old,In With the New: MySQLi

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Okay, so I made my first foray into MySQLi today. I’ve been a long time fan of MySQL, using query functions such as:

But now I can use statements like:

Okay, come to think of it, that was a bit of a shit example; I mean, they’re essentially the same thing. So, to [...]