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WordPress Membership Plugin

jeffikus — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:31:56 +0000

Just saw this from the guys at wpmu.org – Membership Lite. It’s a membership plugin much like others (Wishlist Member, Magic Members), but this one seems to be free and actually looks really good! Plus it’s in the WordPress repository. I’m gonna give it a try for sure and will post my thoughts when I’m done. Anyone else used it?

Grab it here now.

Custom Post Types Interview

jeffikus — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:50:50 +0000

I recently got interviewed by Dan Milward for GetShopped.org as part of their 12 Awesome Examples of Custom Post Types article, in particular the innovative ways we’ve implemented them at WooThemes. I gave him the low down on what we did with Estate and the Tumblog themes. There’s some really interesting examples in the article, check it out. Thanks Dan!

Read the full interview here

CodeIgniter Learning

jeffikus — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:02:05 +0000

Something I found useful while brushing up on my PHP MVC knowledge was this book by Packt Publishing. It’s called CodeIgniter 1.7 and takes you through the fundamental concepts of MVC within the CodeIgniter framework including a chapter on basic CRUD functions. I’m a big fan of this framework, having worked on a custom MVC framework and CakePHP in my web app building days, and I find it a really great framework to keep my skills sharp while not being frustrated with a steep learning curve.

Check it out: CodeIgniter 1.7 – https://www.packtpub.com/improve-coding-productivity-with-codeigniter-1-7/book

WordPress 3.0.1 is out

jeffikus — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:13:06 +0000

For those who have been too busy playing Starcraft 2 to notice, WordPress 3.0.1 has just been released! 50 minor issues have been dealt with and the download counter for 3.0.x stands at a whopping 11 million!

Looking back and reflecting, it’s amazing to say that I’ve been a part of that! For those that don’t know – I work at WooThemes and the WooNav custom navigation that I worked on there was included in the WordPress 3.0 core as the Menu Management functionality. What an awesome opportunity not only to work at an amazing company, but to get the opportunity to contribute code that affects 11 million people/blogs – wow, a truly amazing experience!

Read the 3.0.1 Announcement
Download WordPress 3.0.1
Codex Documentation
WooNav in WordPress 3.0
WordPress 3.0 Contributors (I’m somewhere in the middle of the page)
My patch that got committed into the WordPress Core

FlagTag WordPress Plugin

jeffikus — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:54:42 +0000

Seeing as how I’m big on getting behind your sports team, I saw an initiative by White Wall Web (Disclaimer: I used to work for them) to get the internet into the World Cup Feva by adding what they call a FlagTag to your site. I think it’s fantastic, see my FlagTag on the right of the site. But what most people (who cant code) don’t know how to do is add the code to their website. So I thought, let’s use my WordPress experience and slap together a plugin. No code editing, just a simple download and upload, activate the plugin, and choose your flag! It’s that easy.

Download it here or here.

WordPress Cheat Sheet

jeffikus — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:04:46 +0000

Found this awesome WordPress Cheat Sheet. I found it very useful…check it out here.

Filter your WordPress RSS Feed

jeffikus — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:14:48 +0000

I was working on a project last week and needed to use the categories in WordPress to seperate content, but also needed to provide an RSS Feed of only one of the 2 categories. So I did a quick Google – because I figured someone else has probably done this before – and sure enough I found this :

function nameOfFunction($query) { if ($query->is_feed) { $query->set('cat','-1'); } return $query; } add_filter('pre_get_posts','nameOfFunction');

Note : the -1 is the category id, I didnt try it but I suppose you could change the category parameters where it says cat to something like category_name and still get the same result.

You could also just change the is_feed to some of the other conditional tags that WordPress has for a different effect.

Thanks to Lucas for suggesting I share this!

WordPress JQuery Accordion

jeffikus — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:11:23 +0000

So I’ve been tinkering with JQuery this weekend and have built a function for WordPress to display a JQuery accordion of a certain number of posts from a certain category – Title and Excerpt details.
It also can be used across both pages and posts using a shortcode.
Update – I have built a WordPress plugin to run this function and shortcode, and have created its own page here for download and instructions.

Brothers Streep

jeffikus — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:44:22 +0000

Wow..after a weekend and half a week of being off sick, I thought I’d post something random and cool that features a mate of mine – Hugh Lashbrooke follow him on twitter @hlashbrooke.

He built a site for a local South African band called the Brothers Streep and it got featured on a british talk show called the Graham Norton Show. Reason it got featured is that the band wrote a song about Anna Paquin and the show had her on and played the song to her!! Great stuff…also awesome for Hugh as the site was shown on live TV
Check out the video:

My Projects

jeffikus — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:49:10 +0000

Just thought I’d add a quick post just to keep the content rolling while try make my domain mapping with WordPress Mu article a little easier to read. So I thought I’d tell you about some of the stuff I’ve been working on…

Firstly, I’ve made several sites, unfortunately some of them I can’t share due to certain conflicts of interest/confidentiality rules, but here are some of my currently active projects:

CapeGospel.com – this one is quite a lot of fun for me because it is a Joomla site and I get to try out several plugins I’ve been wanting to try for ages. I built this site for Elohim Ministries and Preston Jongbloed, and pretty soon it will be undergoing to pretty major changes (great ones – check back soon for the update). But the thing about it I’m most proud of, technically, is that it is my first fully converted theme from WordPress to Joomla. I used Revolution Lifestyle (now a commercial WordPress theme by StudioPress) and converted it to Joomla. I use the WordPress version on a regular basis and highly recommend it.

Jeffikus.com – I finally decided to launch after about 2 years of procrastination. I ended up choosing WordPress because of the sheer joy I get writing code for it. I gotta say, of all the CMS/frameworks I’ve worked with, this one is by far the most enjoyable and most powerful (in my opinion).

Custom vs CMS Challenge – This one is coming soon. I will be taking on 2 of my workmates @munyah and @hlashbrooke in a challenge…it’s Joomla vs WordPress vs Custom…watch this space and them, they have great tips on Joomla and web development in general.

Music Venture – All the groundwork has been made for this venture and expect a launch before year end. This is real team effort from several of my best mates and I, and is one I’m really looking forward to.

There are many many more in development ideas/prototypes – too many to mention right now – so just watch this space for some great addition to the World Wide Web! Oh yes…and I’m busy learning a little bit Symfony and CakePHP…just to keep my PHP and MVC skills sharp….