Category Archives: Web Development
gTranslate through TLDs: Subfolder magic with mod_rewrite
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m pretty shit with DevOps. However, I’ve finally bitten the bullet and started learning. I did my first bit of Ansible last week, and this week I’ve approached an interesting problem. I’m fairly new to this stuff but I’m hoping the few hours I spent coming up with this…
I’m Zend Certified!
It may not be much, but it means a lot to me, being my first ever qualification in the industry (despite having been in the industry now for over ten years!) God, I’m getting old. I feel I wasted a lot of that time in dead end jobs, never really progressing much and being a…
RSS to Posts WordPress Plugin
I recently figured I should probably get my website set back up after it being down for around about a year. In doing so, I wanted to find a way to keep new posts flowing without me actually needing to do anything, so I wound up making a plugin. It was kind of interesting getting…
Facebook comments on a website are more hassle than they’re worth
I recently switched my domain from danny.gb.net to danny.gg – all was well and good, until I realised my comments were missing. After some extensive Google-fu, I couldn’t find any proper solutions on migrating a domain and keeping all comments intact. So I had to hack the Facebook plugin a little. I’ve always used this…
Add a Twitch banner to your site
Not only have I recently come back to the whole blogging thing, I also want to start streaming myself playing Starcraft on Twitch. Well, I’m a master of procrastination so instead of actually streaming, I decided to make a small WordPress plugin which adds a banner to the bottom of your website to let your…
WP-Members: Automatically login after registration
WP-Members is a fantastic plugin for securing various areas of your WordPress site for access by registered users. While extremely versatile, not everything can be controlled through the settings alone. An often-requested feature is for the plugin to automatically login a user after they have registered. Unfortunately, this functionality is unavailable in the current version of…