Regular visitors and those familiar with the lovable baby monkey or 2 Idiots Abroad will already be aware that last year I spent 12 months traveling around the world. During some of which my time was spent volunteering in Ecuador, in both the Amazon Rainforest and the beautiful city of Quito. The company, Ecuador Volunteer was badly in need of a website re-design, and so off the back of my volunteer work, and upon my return to the UK, the foundation hired me to re-design and rebuild their website from the ground up. The Ecuador Volunteer website is extremely complex, [...]
Just a quick one for today. I’ve been working with the WP Favorite posts plugin and whilst it’s a fantastic plugin to quickly allow your users to build up a notebook of their favorite articles from your website or blog, it was missing the ability to include images either on the notebook page or the most Favorited widget. To make thumbnails appear, on the widget, you’ll need to first set up a new thumbnail size image in your functions.php file, I created the image size ’90×90′. Open up functions.php and add the following line: 1add_image_size( ’90×90′, 150, 150); Next up, [...]
From Blogging tool, to multi-faceted CMS Platform WordPress has come a long way since it’s humble beginnings as a blogging tool, transforming itself into a full blown content management system. I’ve been using WordPress for years, though it’s certainly not where I began my journey. I had attempted to use Joomla, Drupal and a huge variety of alternatives long before I settled on WordPress. It would be wrong of me to say simply that WordPress is the best, as all of the popular Content Management Systems out there have some great features to bring to the table, that being said, [...]
As You Are Magazine re-branded from the popular “Double Magazine” and is an online news source for emerging talent in the fashion, music and art world. The site is founded on 2 basic questions: What’s New? What’s Next? The style mag approached me to update some of the core functionality with a view to improving the overall user experience and extending the capabilities of the magazines editorial team within the back end. This included creating the bespoke code which creates the magazine style layout seen on the homepage and the everlasting page scroll, which dynamically loads each previous issue as [...]
I’m sure many of you are familiar with the awesomeness that is WordPress custom post types. For those who aren’t, since WP 3.0, we’ve had the capability to add and use custom post types in a variety of different ways. Stored inside the wp-posts table, with a unique post_type identifier, creating custom post types is a really powerful way to separate out different types of content on your website. There’s a ton of plugins out there to help you create your own custom post types, if you don’t feel like registering them yourself via your functions.php file – it all [...]
Another super quick solution to a really annoying problem. I’ve never liked the short vs long description supplied out of the box with Woocommerce. Honestly I’ve never had the need for it – I nearly always leave the long description blank and have all the relevant information in the short description. That then typically leaves me with two more tabs – the attributes tab (often just a bunch of information from my product variations) and the reviews tab. Depending on your product, and how well it’s been received of course, you may want to switch the user reviews tab to [...]
This little number had been bugging me for a while. Specifically I have been creating a site for a client using the awesome Woocommerce plugin. In this case, i have made some significant changes to the “loop-shop.php” which is set up to use the page entitled “our services” in the woo commerce settings. By default, the loop-shop.php page fetched the data from the main editable field in the “our services” page, however it would not display any custom fields i had set up on that page – simply adding the custom fields to the “loop-shop.php” page in the traditional way [...]
Style Me India is a Bollywood gossip, fashion and style online magazine. The brief was simple, to create a vibrant and bright website that echoed the style of the content whilst offering simple functionality that allowed users to easily stumble across and consume content. The project began in August 2011, and was launched in beta in late September. The combination of a fantastic client brief and many late nights meant that the site launched on time. Hurried along by the fact that I was due to begin a lifelong dream of traveling the world in October 2011. Since launching, Style [...]
Muscle Munch is a sports and training news website offering deals on protein shakes and other products. I was enlisted to make design improvements and add in coupon functionality to the website.
Adding to my growing catelogue of online magazine websites is 50 But Nifty, and lifestyle news hub for anyone over 50 and with an enthusiasm for life. Somewhat uncharted territory for me, designing for a highly targeted audience meant showing a lot more restraint and constantly testing and researching to ensure the site remained fit for purpose. Following the launch of 50 But Nifty, I also began the rather dubious task of running an ongoing SEO campaign for the site, aimed at quickly giving it a place in the search results amongst many other similar sites on the web, and [...]
