Author Archives: Douglas Radburn

Tags for custom post types

Custom post types can share tags with normal posts. To do this, add the following line into your custom post declaration.

Custom post types can actually also have their Read More »

Accessing WordPress features outside of your WordPress template

This problem has come up once before, but I found another way of dealing with the issue. However, this time, it seems that I’m going to need to find a Read More »

How to get the children of a page (by slug)

Every now and then, I need to display a list of all the child pages of a top level page in WordPress. This might be for a sub menu, or Read More »

WordPress data import

I imported 900 odd articles from a website we’re migrating from another system into WordPress. The information was in CSV format, so I built a quick and dirty PHP script Read More »

Safari 5 “reader” mode

Interesting article over at theregister about Safari 5’s new “reader” function. And the page is also a living example of a page compatible with it too. Apparently, if Safari 5 Read More »

douglasradburn.co.uk – a redesign

It seems from time to time, I like to refresh the design of this blog and try to re-enter the “blogsphere”. Really, I should just name my blog something obvious, Read More »

BBFC lose game rating classification

Interesting article over at El Reg regarding Elspa taking over gaming classification from BBFC. Elspa’s PEGI system has been in place for a while, with recent updates to the rating Read More »

Facebook Zero – Who cares?

Facebook has released a new version of Facebook aimed specifically at mobile phones in what can only be an effort to save bandwidth for mobile networks. The new version is Read More »

Unicode

It’s been interesting to see the rise of Unicode (now version 5.2). Its’ usage is a boon to programming types, but also to the everyday public as Google have just Read More »

Google Disk Space

Google announced this week on its blog that you will now be able to upload up to 250mb files onto 1gb of storage on it’s cloud system. Many news outlets Read More »

Google launches a URL Shortner for Google Products

Google have released a URL shortner at http://goo.gl/ – following in the foot-steps of sites like http://bit.ly/ and http://pig.ly/. However, Google’s URL Shortner is only for use within Google Toolbar Read More »

HTML Emails

The subject of HTML emails usually ends up in a 2 hour long discussion about all the hacks and work arounds that need to be put into place to get Read More »