I started to look at the WordPress Api recently and decided to put together a small React JS web app that would enable me to show my blog data in a custom front end. To start with I have focused on getting a a list of posts, and related categories. By following this post, an … Read more
2020 has been a long year for us all, and most of us have spent an awful lot of time on Zoom meetings. That seems especially strange when you think this time last year many of us hadn’t even heard of it! Most of us have had to tell colleagues and friends “You’re on mute” … Read more
I spent some time recently working on a couple of website designs that could really use a little design flourish, and I thought styling the ampersand would be just enough. Looking back to an old bit of code I knew you could usee CSS to style your special ameprsands, render them in Baskerville styled in … Read more
I wrote an article last year about how to speed Woocommerce up. It’s turned out to be a pretty popular post, but as with everything online things have moved on and it feels like the right time for an update. WordPress is great but the number one complaint you hear is ‘WordPress is slow!’ – … Read more
Last weekend I was lucky enough to join a great group of people at a Rewired State hack event for the Wellcome Trust. On a beautiful morning in London we were given access to a tonne of open science data and asked to show the Wellcome Trust what could be done with it. Pretty quickly … Read more
Just the same as many other WordPress developers when it came to building and modifying themes I really needed to be able to customise the menu. I found a few tutorials on extending the WordPress Walker to add a button description, most notably this one by Kriesi but I couldn’t find too much about showing … Read more
I spent last weekend working with 22 other developers and creatives from around the country and most of Hondas Cultural Engineers. It was a privilege to be involved in this fantastic event – ‘Power Of Minds’ run by Rewired State and Honda’s Dream Factory. My team (Matthew Applegate, Sym Roe, Kevin Fong, Emily Christy) came … Read more