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Dealing with suspended blogs on multisite

Published December 7th, 2012 under General

Use a blog-deleted.php file which redirects to another site/page whenever a deleted or suspended blog is visited in WordPress multisite.

Screenshot of the widget in action on a single posts page.

Profile widget released

Published December 6th, 2012 under Plugins

I have launched a new WordPress plugin called Profile Widget. It allows you to add an avatar and bio text for the current post author on each single posts page. Hopefully this will be useful to those of you wanting to display information about your […]

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Custom tag page headers

Published December 2nd, 2012 under Plugins

Support for tags has been added to the Unique Headers plugin for WordPress. Existing users should see an update shortly.

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Adding images to the theme customiser

Published November 15th, 2012 under General

I had some difficulties ironing out bugs in an implementation of the WordPress theme customiser when using image uploaders. Here is a very simple piece of code which will hopefully help guide you in the right direction.

Screenshot of the localhost plugin in action

Know when you are on localhost!

Published October 24th, 2012 under Plugins

Those of you who regularly switch their hosts file to change from production to local environments should check out my new mu plugin. It will hopefully make things a little easier for you during development.

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Blogging at WP Realm

Published September 15th, 2012 under General

I’m blogging about WordPress over at WP Realm. I’ll still be posting code tidbits, plugins and all sorts of other things right here, but my broad scoped or generic WordPress posts will be posted over there.

My old logo. I'll miss it, but I've been informed by others that logos don't gel so well with personal branding.

PixoPoint gone

Published September 15th, 2012 under General

Regular site visitors may have noticed a rather major change in this site today, the URL changed! The site has moved from PixoPoint.com today to it’s new home at geek.ryanhellyer.net. Probably no one else will care, but this is a major move for me as I’d worked very hard on building a brand name and so I thought I’d write a post about it.

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blitz.io

Published September 1st, 2012 under General

I went on the hunt for a tool to let me DDOS my own site and provide me with some nice little graphs to show me how slow (or fast) it is under heavy load. The tool I used was blitz.io.

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bb/BuddyPress & multisite spam

Published August 5th, 2012 under Plugins

Spam Destroyer plugin now features experimental support for bbPress user registrations, bbPress guest posting.

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Convert UTC to local time

Published August 4th, 2012 under General

I was having a dreadful time converting from the UTC time stamp stored in the WordPress database to the local time set in the admin panel. I ended up writing the following handy little function to convert the times easily.