Web Developer

Yep, that’s me! These posts are things I thought may be useful for other web developers… as well as things I’d like not to forget.

  • Fostering creative thinking

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    Where in I discuss creative thinking, how to learn this behaviour and how to apply creative thinking in a business context.

  • Crafting meaningful customer relationships

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    When setting up a service or product-based business, there is a concept referred to as “lock in”, where the customer buys in to your ecosystem and, as they add products to their purchase history, it becomes increasingly more difficult to switch away to a competitor. While corresponding over an email chain with friends this morning,…

  • Set a custom rewrite rule for author archives in WordPress

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    In the comments of my post on custom rewrite rules in WordPress, I received a query regarding creating author profile URLs using a rewrite convention of “/profile“. The WordPress author archives are a great way to create profiles for each author on your WordPress-powered website (in fact, it’s done for you by default). The author…

  • Test your knowledge of WordPress with “The WordPress Test”

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    So… you think you know WordPress, huh? 😉 Well, why not test your skills and see where you rank on the world’s stage? Presenting… the WordPress test! I blogged the other day about using Smarterer and Code School for online education. As a starting point, take the test below and see how you stack up.…

  • One-up your web development skills for free with these online services

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    As a developer in an industry where trends and languages grow and evolve at pace, it is virtually impossible to keep track of all the latest happenings. Thus, developers tend to specialise in certain languages or platforms which they watch. For example, while I keep tabs on developments within the PHP and WordPress communities, and…

  • Default post thumbnails in WordPress

    Default post thumbnails in WordPress

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    There is regular discussion within the WordPress user community on certain common encounters developers have when creating themes and plugins. One such discussion is around post thumbnails 1 and, more specifically, how to specify a default thumbnail. After reading a few discussions around this, I thought I’d share my take on things. There are a…