Category Archives: technology

Lanyrd Splat WordPress Widget Plugin

Posted on January 2, 2012 by todd

Last night I noticed that the Lanyrd event info that was meant to be listed in my blog sidebar was no longer working. I was, at the time, using the My Lanyrd Widget which was up to a time working … Continue reading →

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WordPress 1 Minute Wonder – Quick Performance Boosts

Posted on December 5, 2011 by todd

This latest WordPress 1 Minute Wonder installation covers a couple of quick alternative steps that can be taken to dramatically increase your site performance… and yes I’ll be honest and say that actually to cover all 3 steps here it … Continue reading →

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WordPress Upgrade Error – Incompatible Archive Solution

Posted on May 14, 2011 by todd

Just a quick post to highlight the solution to a recent WordPress issue I had when trying to upgrade WordPress release using the “Upgrade Automatically” option. The error I was seeing was: Incompatible Archive.: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find … Continue reading →

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WordPress 1 Minute Wonder – Styling Widgets on Pages Horizontally

Posted on May 8, 2011 by todd

In this edition of WordPress 1 Minute Wonders I will answer a question which I frequently get emailed about… and that is how to style widgets next to each other when using my Widgets on Pages WordPress plugin. In this … Continue reading →

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Best Ribbit Transcription… ever

Posted on May 5, 2011 by todd

I use a service called Ribbit to handle my voicemails and they send me a text and email of the transcribed message as well as an mp3 of the audio. As it’s a free service I tend not to be … Continue reading →

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WordPress 1 Minute Wonder – Adding Gravatar Hovercards

Posted on May 3, 2011 by todd

As a sequal to the debut entry of the “WordPress 1 Minute Wonder” series which talked about styling author comments differently to other comments this post extends the usefulness of your comments by adding Gravatar Hovercards to you site/blog. This posts … Continue reading →

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WordPress 1 Minute Wonder – Styling Author Comments

Posted on April 23, 2011 by todd

This is the first in the series of my 1 Minute Wonder series for WordPress where I’ll be showing simple and quick tricks for WordPress to add a little extra to your blog or WordPress powered website. And in this … Continue reading →

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Information as requested, Or not!

Posted on April 12, 2011 by todd

Did I receive Spam Mail from Keith Griggs? I received a mail today from a gentleman wanting to start up a joint venture with me. The proposal was based around creating an SEO business (something he said that he was … Continue reading →

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The Developer’s Linux Setup

Posted on April 10, 2011 by todd

A quick foreword, this is how I’ve got my relatively new Linux setup running so please, please leave comments to let me know what I’ve overlooked. As someone who flits between different computers it’s nice to have a common set … Continue reading →

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How to get Dropbox on Linux Working through a Proxy

Posted on April 9, 2011 by todd

I was recently a little stumped on getting Dropbox working on my Ubuntu 10.10 install (Maverick Meerkat) through our corporate proxy…. having got it working though I thought I’d share with you. In a terminal start Dropbox with the following … Continue reading →

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