Todd Halfpenny has been interested in making things easier for as long as he can remember. Perhaps he’s just lazy, perhaps he’s not very clever… though if you ask him it’s just because he can’t believe that things have to be as difficult as they are.
Me (Todd Halfpenny)
He is managing director of the web design and development company Gingerbread Design Ltd and has worked as an engineer in the mobile telecoms industry for over 8 years.
During his time in telecoms he was part of the small team who designed and developed an inhouse SMSC (Short Message Service Centre) and also within the Intelligent Networks design and developement team who were responsible for services such as Pay As You Go.
During his studies at university he was the webmaster* for the Studen Union site as well as writing music reviews (where he got the chance to interview Roxy Wild – Kim Wild’s younger sister – and walk past Kylie Minogue – she still had a surname then – in a corridor).
This site is his home and the web… it’ll contain some of his thoughts and ranblings and some wordpress playings.
* what an awful title that is… but that’s the way it was in the late 90s 
Hi Todd,
I was wondering if I could ask for your support with using the Widgets on Pages plugin in my theme file?
If yes, to which address/where should I contact you?
Thanks
-Johanna
Hey Johanna, have mailed you
Hi Todd,
great work on your plugins. very handy for people like myself who forget where they are when in long code.
I am looking for some custom work to develop the functionality on a site for peole with learning disabilities. Would love to get your input and pay for time to develop if you are able to.
Thanks
Chris
Hey Chris,
Thanks for the comments and offer of work. I have just mailed you.
Ta,
Todd
Dear Todd,
For a non profit project of mine, I am looking for a plugin/way to insert a particular “rating” widget into a page. So that the “ratings” will be displayed inside the “Top rated” page instead of the sidebar.
I found your plugin, which says to solve this problem.
But I could not make it work.
Could you please help me solve this problem ?
Hey Ivan,
Please feel free to leave some details here or mail me with further info and I’ll be happy to take a look.
Ta,
Todd
For me, code is hell and thanks very much for making it a bit “purgatory” with widgets on pages plugin. But how can I make the widgets be side by side? My page looks really bad with all that empty space. see, http://www.idsetters.com/ingridlima/
thanks very much!
Hey Ingrid,
There’s a post here about styling the widgets horizontally. This is achieved using CSS.
Hope this helps,
Todd
Hi. I’m using thesis Framework. I also have WordPress Multi site.
I just added Widgets on pages..
what I want to do it on the static page for the main website to post the recent posts from all my websites. I already installed it and named each widget..the only thing I’m stuck on is the number 4-6 on the installation part of widgets on pages. please help. Thank you so much.
Main is where I’m trying to add the widget…main it the front page..Please help
Hey Jennifer,
I take it at this point you have added the widgets (to show the posts from your other blogs) to the Widgets on Pages sidebar via the Widgets admin area.
If so you then need to copy and paste the shortcode (which is displayed just under the title of said sidebar, will look something like this [widgets_on_pages id=x]) into your static page content at the point you want the widgets to be displayed.
I hope this helps… if not feel free to email me and we can try to get this working for you.
Ta,
Todd
AWESOME! Thanks so much.!!