Coding

Coding and code related posts. Thoughts on Wordpress, Magento and coding in general.

  • A quick word on inspiration

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    This afternoon, while thinking of what I could write about today, I got to thinking about the concept of inspiration. Where does it come from? How do we channel it? What is it, really? I find inspiration to be an enigma. It can come from anything (a walk in the park, your favourite band, a…

  • Content Management that enables developers

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    Content Management has always been an area of web development designed to make updating a website simple and easy for the end-user. Over time, I believe, the concept of content management systems (CMSes) has developed, in certain aspects, in a point-and-click direction. By point-and-click, I mean where developers sign into a console and click through…

  • Getting the information of a root page in WordPress

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    Often, when using WordPress as a content management or blogging tool on a website, one uses a multi-level page structure. This entails a page being listed “underneath” another page in a tree structure. Usually, if your WordPress installation’s permalinks deviate from the default setting, your page URL structure will look something like this: http://websiteurl.com/parentpageslug/subpageslug (Note:…

  • WordPress Shortcodes… in short

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    In the spirit of the topic, I’ll keep this post short and sweet. Today I’ll be discussing WordPress’s shortcode API and how to utilise it. WordPress shortcodes are codes (eg: [list_bookmarks]) which can be typed into the content area of a page or post in order to provide functionality of some kind. Shortcodes can be…

  • Perch – a new lil’ CMS is on the market

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    This Monday past, I received an email from “Perch”. On opening this email, I was reminded that Perch, a new “small CMS”, has now launched. Content Management Systems being an interest of mine, I took a look into this new lil’ guy on the CMS market. Perch is lightweight and easy to install and integrate…

  • How do you browse through a blog?

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    Blogs in general seem to cater for similar functionality: tag clouds, categories, post tagging, search functionality, etc. My question here is, which browsing method works best for you when browsing a blog? I’ve been considering adding “related posts” into this blog’s current design. I’m just wondering, do users in general find a related posts block…