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Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier (NSFW)
A recent US musical has been recorded and put onto YouTube for free. It’s a re-telling of Aladdin from the side of Jafar, in a similar way to the musical Wicked. It’s rather adult (language wise) but is very, very funny. And quite how they got away with the Disney references I’m really no sure…
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Between Amazon and the Post Office I have NO idea where my parcels are!
Recently I’ve needed to order a number of items from Amazon. However, between them and the Post Office receiving them has been made rather difficult.
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How to work out the current state of a plugin
It’s a rare instance where you need to know, from your own code, the state of a plugin but, for instance, this may be something particularly relevant to a theme. The usual way is to use the PHP command functions_exists to check whether a specific function is present. Of course, hard-coding this is probably not…
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Why WordPress developers often get the is_admin function wrong
Let me first say that I’m guilty. For “performance reasons” I’m always careful to only run functions in their appropriate area of WordPress – so, something only used in the admin area will be checked via the use of is_admin. Only if this is true will I then run that code. It makes sense. But…
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My Wedding Singer Diary – Part 4
It’s now just 3 weeks to the opening night of the show. Nervous? Me? Actually, no. I have some lines left to learn and a couple of dances to work on but, otherwise, yeah, I’m confident. My hair, which got a mention in my last diary entry, it getting to new levels of annoyance -…