Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

How to Sandbox WordPress

Monday, May 12th, 2008

“How to (easily) Sandbox WordPress and Kick back with Plugins, Themes And Hacks”

Describes how to create a subdomain, install Wordpress, copy your content, and prevent search engines from finding your sandbox.

Some useful Wordpress plugins

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Subversion on Plesk-controlled subdomain

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
After much procastination and personal interuptions (you can tell, I haven’t been blogging that often lately) , I’ve managed to install Subversion running as a subdomain with Plesk 8.0 and CentOS 4.3…

rest of the story on Alex Le’s blog

Installing WordPress with Subversion

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion

To install a fresh copy of WordPress, type the following at your command prompt, starting from the directory above where you want to install WordPress. These commands will create a directory “blog” for your blog, and then check out (Subversion command “co”), or extract from the repository, the stable version of WordPress you have chosen. Do not type the “$” characters — they are just indications of the command prompt. Here are the commands (assuming the version you want is 2.3.1):

$ mkdir blog
$ cd blog
$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1 .

Pages+ Wordpress admin plugin

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Replaces “Manage >> Pages” with a more useful screen for large sites.

New location, http://www.adamhopkinson.co.uk/blog/code/pagesplus/

HTML 5

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

After almost eight years, a new version of HTML is in the offing.  HTML 5 promises to bridge much of the problems in writing content-based web pages with just HTML 4 and CSS.
Story at IBM

How to change default thumbnail size

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

thread on the WordPress site

Flexible Upload feature for WordPress

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Flexible Upload is a plugin for Wordpress 2.0.x and 2.1 to enhance the image upload functionality.

Main Features

  • Resize pictures at upload to the size you specify
  • Let you decide whether or not to create a thumbnail and specify its size
  • Optionally incrust a watermark signature in all pictures you upload
  • Enhanced link insertion into your posts: specify picture alignment (left, right, center) - optional
  • Insert a caption for each picture (not supported for WP2.1 with Wysiwyg editor)
  • Optional support for Lightbox2 links

Flexible Upload homepage

Arizona Rail site completely revised

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

I have completed the design and loaded much of the archival content into the new Arizona Rail Passenger Association website.

Two new sites

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

I have recently: