WordPress Archives - Keith Devon https://keithdevon.com/tag/wordpress/ UK-based WordPress developer Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:18:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 How (and why) to use Schema.org on your WordPress website https://keithdevon.com/schema-on-your-wordpress-website/ https://keithdevon.com/schema-on-your-wordpress-website/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:17:52 +0000 https://keithdevon.com/?p=1234 Search engines have a big problem. There is so much data out there and it’s hard to work out what is what. Humans are great at inferring the context of web content, but this is much more difficult for Google, Bing, Yahoo!, etc.. That’s why the biggest search engines have come together to create a […]

The post How (and why) to use Schema.org on your WordPress website appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> https://keithdevon.com/schema-on-your-wordpress-website/feed/ 8 Add links to WordPress custom excerpts https://keithdevon.com/add-links-wordpress-custom-excerpts/ https://keithdevon.com/add-links-wordpress-custom-excerpts/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:03:44 +0000 https://keithdevon.com/?p=1221 By default custom excerpts don’t have a ‘read more’ link of any kind. I wanted my custom excerpts to look the same as my dynamically generated ones. It’s a simple code change:

The post Add links to WordPress custom excerpts appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> https://keithdevon.com/add-links-wordpress-custom-excerpts/feed/ 0 WordPress $is_iphone global https://keithdevon.com/wordpress-is_iphone-global/ https://keithdevon.com/wordpress-is_iphone-global/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:50:31 +0000 http://keithdevon.wpengine.com/?p=985 OK, why did nobody tell me about this, and why is it not documented! I just found out today that WordPress does some browser detection of its own. I’ve previously relied on other code libraries for this, but maybe now I can use the ‘WordPress Way’. Detecting mobile in WordPress using $is_iphone In wp-includes/vars.php there […]

The post WordPress $is_iphone global appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> https://keithdevon.com/wordpress-is_iphone-global/feed/ 2 The Tools of the (WordPress Freelance Development) Trade https://keithdevon.com/the-tools-of-the-wordpress-freelance-development-trade/ https://keithdevon.com/the-tools-of-the-wordpress-freelance-development-trade/#respond Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:47:35 +0000 http://keithdevon.wpengine.com/?p=953 I’ve been freelancing for a while now. I’ve also been developing WordPress sites for a while. In that time I’ve used many different tools. Some have been great, and some less great. Here I share a list of the tools that I’m currently using: Accounting I use the excellent FreeAgent* to keep track of my […]

The post The Tools of the (WordPress Freelance Development) Trade appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> https://keithdevon.com/the-tools-of-the-wordpress-freelance-development-trade/feed/ 0 WordPress Security https://keithdevon.com/wordpress-security/ https://keithdevon.com/wordpress-security/#respond Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:31:41 +0000 http://uberleaf.com/kdev/?p=864 Since I listened to Kieran O’Shea’s talk at WordCampUK, I’ve been taking security much more seriously. Kieran had some pretty scary statistics regarding hacking. For example, 90% of all businesses have been hacking victims in the last 12 months, and, there is an average of 156 days before victims realise that hacking has taken place. […]

The post WordPress Security appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> https://keithdevon.com/wordpress-security/feed/ 0 Custom Post Types https://keithdevon.com/custom-post-types/ https://keithdevon.com/custom-post-types/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:35:20 +0000 http://keithdevon.wpengine.com/?p=622 Last night I gave a presentation at the WordPress London meetup. I talked about custom post types in WordPress, something that has really excited me since WordPress 3. I’ve included the video, a rough transcript of the presentation and the slides at the bottom. What we’ll cover What are custom post types When to use […]

The post Custom Post Types appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> https://keithdevon.com/custom-post-types/feed/ 1 WordPress London meetup #5 https://keithdevon.com/wordpress-london-meetup-5/ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:46:28 +0000 http://keithdevon.wpengine.com/2011/uncategorized/wordpress-london-meetup-5/ The group continues to go from strength to strength with at least 30 members attending. This month’s meetup included a talk from BuddyPress developer Paul Gibbs. He talks us through the new release, the epic version 1.5. Paul’s blog post, with slides, can be found here: http://byotos.com/2011/09/27/buddypress-at-wordpress-london-220911/. Then Jeff Ghazally shows us how easy it us […]

The post WordPress London meetup #5 appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> Beginner WordPress Theme Development https://keithdevon.com/beginner-wordpress-theme-development/ https://keithdevon.com/beginner-wordpress-theme-development/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:49:35 +0000 http://keithdevon.wpengine.com/?p=599 Last Thursday (28th July 2011) we held the third London WordPress meetup. The meetup is for WordPress users and professionals in London and aims to provide a networking and learning platform. I gave a talk on Beginner WordPress Theme Development, which introduced the basic structure of a theme and some key concepts. Here are the […]

The post Beginner WordPress Theme Development appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> https://keithdevon.com/beginner-wordpress-theme-development/feed/ 0 Spinning Update progress on WordPress pages https://keithdevon.com/spinning-update-progress-on-wordpress-pages/ Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:12:20 +0000 http://keithdevon.wpengine.com/?p=497 Spinning Progress Wheel One of my clients recently informed me that a site that I had built had a problem; when some pages were published or updated, the progress wheel would spin until the browser eventually timed out. It had been a month or so since I had finished the site development and there had […]

The post Spinning Update progress on WordPress pages appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> Internal Link Layout Issue https://keithdevon.com/internal-link-layout-issue/ https://keithdevon.com/internal-link-layout-issue/#respond Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:17:03 +0000 http://keithdevon.wpengine.com/?p=437 I recently came across an unusual problem when using internal links on a WordPress site. The link in question linked from one page on the site to a specific section on another page of the same site. When this link was followed there was an error with the page layout. More accurately, the new page […]

The post Internal Link Layout Issue appeared first on Keith Devon.

]]> https://keithdevon.com/internal-link-layout-issue/feed/ 0