Updating a post in WordPress

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Had a few people ask about this so thought I’d make a tutorial. “Updating a post in WordPress”. Just in case you forget, here’s something to refer back to: 1. go to your posts list (posts – click on All Posts): 2. Click on ‘Edit’ below the title of the post: 3. This is what … Read moreUpdating a post in WordPress

Web Design for street artist Be-Free

Super lucky to be contacted by one of my favourite street artists to do their website… I’ve been photographing Be Free‘s work for about 5 years now on the streets and in abandos, even been to a few authorised and un-authorised exhibitions and now am privileged to design their website! The Menu had to include … Read moreWeb Design for street artist Be-Free

Web Design for Adrian Doyle

A re-design for the infamous Adrian Doyle (of Blender Studios and painting Rutledge lane Empty-Nursery-Blue fame) was in order and luckily enough I got the call; stripped back minimal white to showcase his art, news and exhibitions: I used wordpress as mostly I do now, All-in-one SEO, Featured Image Thumbnail Grid plugin, Contact form 7, … Read moreWeb Design for Adrian Doyle

Invurt web site re-design.

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Recently completed a huge re-design for invurt.com with over a thousand pages, luckily it was already using wordpress so it was all about finding the right theme, styling, hacking, hacking, more hacking; and as a bonus, this could only be done after 9pm due to the site being live (almost 6 years now!) Invurt is … Read moreInvurt web site re-design.

Making a WordPress Template

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So making a template file just like a child theme or styling using the theme options css box is a good non-destructive way (to the theme and in case you change themes) to style your layout. The following is an example of what to do when making a template for an alternative home page: 1. … Read moreMaking a WordPress Template

dont like hacks? keep updating

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If itDoesCompute seems a little broken – its cause it is. It seems you cant be sleepy, something I already knew, but due to work load and thinking yeah itll be okay, I left myself open for those lovely spammy rank seeking hacker advertisers. More details later, and some tips and info one main thing … Read moredont like hacks? keep updating

Web design for David Russell Photography

David Russell is a well known tour guide for Melbourne Street Art Tours run out of the Blender studios in Melbourne, a street art/graffiti photographer and all-round nice guy. His website is a fairly sleek/minimal design to show off his photography and incorporates rss feeds from his invurt posts, instagram and flickr feeds, ‘paint ups’ … Read moreWeb design for David Russell Photography

Make a single post single category appear on the WP index page

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My previous discovery on how to make a single post from a single category appear on the index page in a wordpress site was not the best solution. At all. It caused a battle between the .css and the recent post loop! The page displayed visually what i wanted: 1 post from category ‘diary’. When … Read moreMake a single post single category appear on the WP index page

getting bombed with spam emails?

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ive been getting almost a hundred spammy emails a day and thought i’d turned commenting off As well as unchecking ‘allow people to post comments on new articles’ you have to stop comments appearing on published posts too. On the all posts page in wordpress select them all and select ‘edit’ from the drop down … Read moregetting bombed with spam emails?