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The first WordCamp UK was a cracker

I spent the weekend in the company of 50 or so other WordPress users, designers, developers, the odd Aussie Automattician, and a WordPress lead developer at the first WordCamp UK. It was great to meet a such a varied and interesting group of bloggers and blog makers, many of whom I’m going to have to wait until next year to properly talk to… a weekend is just too short!

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WordPress plugin development presentation

My presentation for WordCamp UK on WordPress Plugin Development (although I will update this soon with better slide notes): PDF version.

Interspersing your post listing with date headers in WordPress

Update: OK, so at least one person wanted it as a plugin, so feel free to download Intermittent Date Headers.

Here’s a code snippet that’s not really worth making into a plugin. It’s designed to put date headers into your main post listing page. As an example, you could end up with:

Heading: March, 2008
Post: dated 15th March
Post: dated 28th March
Post: dated 29th March
Heading: April, 2008
Post: dated 1st April
Post: dated 4th April

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Error handling all the way up to 11

Wordpress code has cleaned up enough in the latest release that you can crank error detection all the way up to 11. #

  • Good turn out for the first BarCamp Manchester. Looking forward to the day ahead. #
  • Great talk from Dan Morris on the BBC’s work with teens. Waiting nervously for my slot on Wordpress now. #
  • BarCamp Manchester has decamped to the bar to disintegrate. Well done to Paul Robinson for pulling and holding the day together. #

  • After leaving it til the last minute, I’m resurrecting my Wordpress talk for Barcamp. Let’s see if I can manage a working laptop this time! #

Exclude Pages now hides child pages where appropriate

Exclude Pages (my WordPress plugin which allows you to remove pages from site navigation) now handles child pages more gracefully. Previously, when you excluded a page any child page would drop down a level, taking it’s place… not what I wanted, and not something I’d noticed because I was only dealing with single level navigation when I wrote the plugin. Continue reading ‘Exclude Pages now hides child pages where appropriate’

Simon Wheatley: Introduction to WordPress at BarCamp Leeds 2007

My session for BarCamp Leeds was on “An Introduction to WordPress”, and I put together a nice graphical presentation for it… only to find the laptop playing up and unable to connect to the screen!

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BarCamp Leeds

Very excited to be signed up for my first BarCamp, and the first BarCamp Leeds ever. Big thanks to Deb, Imran Ali, Tom Scott & Dominic Hodgson for organising this.

Now I’ve just got to work out what to talk about, ideas so far:

Lots of thinking and then planning to do…

Update: or split testing…

Staggering onwards is not good

For animals, pain is a signal that something is wrong and it needs fixing. If pain didn’t exist we’d all be accidentally leaving our hand on the burning gas hob, or on the electric bar fire and wondering about the burning smell long after we’d been injured. We want to know when something isn’t right, and we want to know as quickly and “loudly” as possible.

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