WordPress – deactivate plugins from db
Sometimes it may be necessary to deactivate plugins, but you can’t access the administrative menus to do so. usually down to a flaky plugin that not only fails to work, but leaves garbage that causes wordpress to throw a hissy fit. In the table wp_options, under the option_name column (field) find the active_plugins row TO [...]
WordPress and georss
How to create georss from your wordpress site feed. Firstly, you will need to ensure that your posts have post meta values for latitude and longitude. Geonames provide extensive amount of worldwide geolocation data http://www.geonames.org/export/. Plugins can do this work, but this is an exercise to remove dependncy from googlemaps wordpress plugins (which add overhead [...]
Classipress Child Theme
UPDATE!(09/11/2011) Currently updating this child theme for classipress 3.1.5 compatibility. Numerous functional improvements around proximity searching, improved FB integration, autocompletion on City field, and georss feeds (great to quickly generate mashup maps). DEMO
Why use a child theme?
It’s an odd question now perhaps, as child themes are still pretty thin on the ground. I think this is largely down to misunderstandings about the concept and how they can help. The main advantage of child theme is:- 1. You can generate sites quickly from the same core/parent template. 2. Updates to core/parent theme [...]
London WordPress Meetup
There is a new London wordpress meetup starting on 9th June. WordPress has been in exisitence for many years now, and has built up a large following. Drupal seems to be dominating the commercial end of open source CMS’s currently, but I always favoured WordPress because of its vibe, architecture and semantic web philosophy. WordPress [...]
By the balls
I sometimes think it is better to go with open source, than budget kick-start code, such as Classipress. With a key release being delayed 6 months, I feel in the same stranglehold as if I had gone with a regular software vendor product – what has happened is I have done coding work to get [...]
