How to Exclude a Category From Your WordPress Home Page
Jan
26
If you have a WordPress site with a list of posts for your home page, it is easy to exclude a category so it doesn’t appear in the list. You might want to do this if you have a category that appears as a page in it’s own right, such as a client area on the Andrew Olney Wedding Photography site for example. (The client weddings are in the category of Weddings and have their own button on the site navigation.)
Updating WordPress Fails – How to Fix Update Problems
Jan
17
If your WordPress update fails, there may be a quick solution at hand that may not involve manually restoring several critical files.
Espresso 2 by MacRabbit
Dec
12
If you design and develop websites and are looking for an excellent, feature-packed editor to speed up your coding, then you won’t go far wrong with Espresso 2 by MacRabbit! With built-in FTP support and a host of useful features, this is my favourite text editor to date.
Hobarts Estate Agents Website Makeover
Dec
7
Hobarts Estate Agents have just had a website makeover. It has been a couple of years since Hobarts’ last website and web technologies and designs have changed quite a bit since then.
Windows Error Log Phone Call Scam
Dec
6
The other day I got an interesting phone call from ‘Microsoft Support’. Actually, this was a scam or fake Microsoft call and it seems like a few people I know have received similar calls too, so I thought a quick post might help others out there.
Paragraph Spacing in Contribute
Nov
10
When using Adobe Contribute, using the Return key creates the look of a line-break, (or soft-return as it is also known) with the text appearing on the line immediately below your current paragraph. If you would rather have a space between paragraphs, this needs to be set up by you or the site administrator.
AirPlay Mirroring in iOS 5
Oct
31
Apple have done it again – made me go “Oh my God!”
Yesterday, I used the new AirPlay Mirroring feature on my iPhone 4S for the first time and was pleasantly surprised…
Add Custom Menus to WordPress 3+ Themes
Oct
20
WordPress 3 added plenty of new features – and one of the most useful was the ability to create and add custom navigation or menus to your themes. Whilst they are very simple to implement, they are also extremely flexible, allowing you to add not only pages, categories or posts to your navigation, but also custom links.
Bluetooth Support Stops on iMac
Oct
11
Today, for no reason, Bluetooth support stopped on my 27″ iMac, disconnecting my Magic Trackpad and taking out the icon in the System Preferences…
Haiz Design Website Makeover
Sep
22
From time to time, you get to a point of thinking that your own website needs a makeover… (Surely it’s not just me?)
Anyway, with the idea of just freshening the look and using the existing graphics, the site has gone from Nocturne (blacks and dark greys) to Lemongrass (whites and softer greens.)
