Well, as you may or may not know WP Snippets til Christmas will start rolling out snippets as of the 1st of December. I asked Brad on twitter if he’d like to submit a snippet and in the true nature of open source and sharing his knowledge of WordPress he gladly agreed so, just before … read more

I found out today that the WordPress 3.5 release date will be 5th December with some sweet improvements to the Media Library, including the ability to attach images to posts via the Media Library it’s self rather than having to re-upload individual images – now thats going to be handy! Haven’t actually installed the beta … read more

After a recent hot drama on a well know social network about Open Source vs Proprietary software, I felt inspired to write this. The drama was about websites and content management and the key tone that came across was that there are two approaches to this – Open Source Software (OSS) or Closed Source (also known … read more

I have mixed opinions about this, should you design for mobile first or desktop? I understand the pro’s for mobile first but it’s got it’s pitfalls too in my opinion. I would be interested in your views too so please leave your comments below. So, if we decide we’re going straight in to the browser … read more

WordPress is currently the most popular publishing platform in the world with over 60 million people choosing to use it! The question is ‘why is it so popular..?’ The answer is not that difficult … because, it’s so easy to use you could teach your granny to use it! In-fact your granny could download it and … read more

After helping Nissanka via twitter on a little website issue when WordPress was hacked, here’s what he had to say about me on Linkedin… “Elliot was able to resolve many issues that i had with my website. He was knowledgeable and able to provide me quick solutions. He was clear in his communication and i … read more

There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some point and sync the database. Although very achievable it can be a pain in the proverbial, especially … read more

Ben Howdle from Two Step Media created what has to be one of the funniest and geekiest websites I’ve seen for a long time, if you can read code you will love this. On Movies as code you can submit code but, as stated in the rules – ‘you must talk about Movies as code as much as possible’. … read more