ZigPressSometimes I take on the maintenance of existing WordPress-based websites, and obviously part of my initial work is to assess a site’s performance, stability, extent of customisation, etc. It all boils down to getting to know what I’ve taken on so that I can find the easiest ways to maintain it in the future. One [...]
I’m pleased to reveal the results of my latest project, one that has been in the works since January. I’m involved with the LifeCycle Organisation, a Malta-based charity that raises money for kidney treatments and research by organising extreme international cycling challenges. You may remember I built a new website for them in the spring [...]
Here’s a lovely little Internet Explorer “feature” that may have web developers cursing, so I figured I would write a brief post about it in the hope that IE doesn’t waste an hour of your life like it did mine. If you develop in PHP and need to add image upload functionality to a project, [...]
Sometimes you need to be able to hide the update notices in the WordPress admin pages. One example is when your clients have sufficient admin access to see them, but you don’t want them to try an upgrade and risk destroying the site if something goes wrong. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, right? [...]
Bristol-based Sums Ltd is a leading UK provider of educational software for multiple platforms (including the web), specialising in fun, animated maths activities. ZigPress has been working with Sums for around 3 years, though nothing has appeared on the Portfolio page until now, because the projects were password-protected sites used by schools who were given [...]
