I recently wrote a review and introduction to Jetpack with WordPress. I today discovered that non-admins (editors, even subscribers!) could see the Jetpack menu in the WordPress Dashboard. This for me is a bit of a no no and actually cannot believe it’s there! However it is fairly simple to remove it: Stick that in [...]
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As you may have noticed my new site is fairly heavily responsive. A lot of extra work has gone into helping make the user experience for 50% of my visitors that use mobile devices. Now I love WordPress however it’s about time it started to move to accept modern methods like responsive design. That aside [...]
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Today my shiny iPad Mini arrived. It is lovely, light and small, but that isn’t the point of this. When I was setting it all up I was restoring from a iCloud backup of my iPad 2. I noticed that it had copied across my device name. As I wanted to change this I had [...]
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Not exactly a new thing, but one I have always had to Google for. In my workflow I normally create a new branch when working on a major feature change (this ensures if I have any bug fixes to do in the mean time I can work on them without having to muddle around code). [...]
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WordPress gives us lots of little things we can tweak to our own needs. WordPress out of the box includes Gravatar support and has a number ways you can use this in your themes and plugins. The usual situation is attaching a Gravatar to when someone posts a comment (as happens on my site) if [...]
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