Category Archives: Development

Wordpress as a workplace Intranet system

Over the past month I’ve been stretching a vanilla installation of Wordpress (now 2.5.1) into a secure Intranet site for distributing news updates as well as an enabling technology for performing electronic tasks across the workplace.
To date it’s been a complete hit with staff placing high and frequent demand on the system from a staff [...]

Manually deactivating Wordpress plugins in PHPMyAdmin

One of my gripes in Wordpress plugin development is the function add_action() with the admin_menu property as there’s no easy way to disable a erroneous plugin in the Wordpress Administration without editing that plugin file.
I often find myself digging through my active Wordpress site database when developing custom Wordpress plugins and theme solutions, thanks to [...]

Custom Wordpress Administration Theme Styles

Plugin: Baltic Amber Admin Themes (available from Baltic Amber Admin Themes)
Impress your next client with attention to detail by applying their corporate style guide colours to the Wordpress Administration interface with the help of Baltic Amber Admin Themes.

Choose from fresh preset styles or apply your own defined colour set through the Colour Settings sub-menu within [...]

Creating a Custom Wordpress Home page

Wordpress is not optimised out of the box for commercial deployment, the potential is certainly there but on the surface it’s just a blogging platform. For that reason it makes sense that the home page for all default Wordpress sites is a list of recent posts in chronological order.
The needs of commercial sites differ vastly [...]

Commercial Wordpress Plugins

Welcome to Part 1 of Plugins for Wordpress sites.
In this series I plan to list what plugins I recommend and deploy for clients in various web projects, the scope and requirements of each job mean a different set of plugins to best suit the purpose of the site.
For ease I have divided plugins into different [...]