Last year, I revealed, after just a few months working and travelling for Automattic, what I carried with me in my backpack. A year on, and many more trips, and that content has changed.
The theme for this year is “brown leather”.
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New WordPress plugin – Tidy My Menus
Don’t you just hate it when WordPress plugins are just a rule to themselves when it comes to adding new menus to your installation? Those slick, and well thought out, menu positions are now, seemingly, randomly dotted with plugin menus jostling for attention.
Well, hate no more. Tidy My Menus is an automated solution to all this. Install, activate and watch your menus tidy themselves up.
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Embedding code in your WordPress posts
When adding code to a WordPress post, you may find that it gets modified (particularly when using the visual editor). For some years now, a popular plugin of mine, Code Embed, has allowed you a way to achieve this without any such modification. However, the plugin has had many features to it, making it a lot larger from what it first was. And that first release did it just a few lines of code.
So, dusting those lines down, bringing them up to VIP coding standards, here they are for anybody to easily add to their site, for example, via their
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WordCamp London, Take 2 – The Diary
It’s been a year since I went to my first ever WordCamp – WordCamp London. And now I’m back for a second attempt.
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How to make a Lego Minifigure display cabinet
If you have a number of Lego Minifigs then displaying them is something you may consider. However, official products can be expensive, and will often not hold many.
So, I set out creating my own on a relatively shoe-string budget. How does £20 for displaying 66 figures sound?
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