Our Fragile Planet - An online notebook for tech, music, food, wordpress.... and whatever else I am keeping note of...

Luxury accommodation in Kanturk

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Fragile WriterClients

One of the clients that I help with seo and marketing and support with their website is Glenlohane. Glenlohane estate is huge and beautiful and they offer luxurious B&B accommodation and also they offer the[…]

appending phone listings with open office

September 12, 2017September 12, 2017 Fragile Writeropenoffice

Just keeping a note of the process here as I’ll need to do it again and it’s been a bit of a faff. I had two csv listings of phone numbers – I needed to[…]

cctv cameras in ireland

June 26, 2017June 27, 2017 Fragile WriterPolitics

I am trying to get more organic traffic to www.securityproducts.ie. It is an the Irish online shop that sells a large range of high quality hikvision security products. It’s very hard to get good search engine[…]

Little updates on one on one yoga website

June 13, 2017June 13, 2017 Fragile WriterClients

I have just been adding a new page to the Holistic Yoga with Ray website. Ray is a client that I’ve never actually met in person even though she’s based in county Cork too. The[…]

learndash core changes on upgrade

May 25, 2017 Fragile WriterLeandash

Adding the company name from woocommerce to the learndash email report add the following to ../wp-content/plugins/sfwd-lms/includes/vendor/wp-pro-quiz/lib/controller/WpProQuiz_Controller_Quiz.php ‘$companyname’ => $user-> billing_company, it goes in around line 842 in this context:

Veg garden crops

May 24, 2017May 24, 2017 Fragile WriterGardening

Very pleased with how the veg garden is going this year. This is what’s planted: A there’s new potatoes “Homeguard” B there’s sweetcorn with courgettes and we popped in a few dwarf bean seeds C[…]

Updating to WooCommerce 3.0

May 24, 2017June 27, 2017 Fragile WriterWoocommerce

There were a couple of files that the template that I was using was out of date that I had to do things with cart/cart.php because it had a paypal alert /product-content.php I deleted because[…]

How to upgrade Open Cart 2.2

April 7, 2017May 24, 2017 Fragile WriterOpenCart

1. Back up the files and database. You can backup the database with the opencart backend tools or phpMyadmin – I did both. 2. then I’m going to look at the extensions that I already[…]

How to help a bumble bee that can’t fly

April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 Fragile WriterNature

If you find a bumble bee that can’t fly in the spring, it might be a queen who has just woken up. You might be able to help her by putting her somewhere warm and[…]

The Shiso Room – Future Music FM 30th March 2017

April 3, 2017 Fragile WriterMusic

Getting back to the essence of the Dub Technician this week. Hour one gives you a heavy weight dose of future dub gloriousness, plus new tracks from FIN, AK, and Lorelle Meets the Obsolete. Hour[…]

Potatoes planted 2017

April 3, 2017April 3, 2017 Fragile WriterGardening

Trying to get the old gardening mojo back again. Started off by planting some potatoes. I have to say I haven’t followed all the rules and there’s no compost dug in or anything but it’s[…]

WordPress Notification Bar plugin

February 3, 2017April 3, 2017 Fragile WriterWordpress

I want to add a slide in notification bar which contains a mailchimp sign up form. I actually didn’t find anything suitable so I just coded my own with jQuery Toggle animate

Adding line breaks to ultimate member multi-select display

February 2, 2017April 3, 2017 Fragile WriterWordpress

Displaying the multi-select fields in a row made it very hard to read the areas that members covered. I couldn’t change the display without editing the core files, because they weren’t wrapped in a span[…]

Adding styled google calendar events listing to website

November 11, 2016November 11, 2016 Fragile Writergoogle

I want to do a static brochure site but incorporate an events listing. I thought a google calendar would be a good idea. Google has made everything a bit more complicated with all their maps[…]

WordPress membership plugins

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 Fragile WriterWordpress

What I wanted was membership that was for a limited period, with a customised registration form and manual approval. Simple WordPress Membership Seemed okay until I wanted to customise the registration process then it needed[…]

WP Store Locator – email as link in single store page

October 28, 2016October 28, 2016 Fragile WriterWordpress

This is a nice little plugin but it needed a fix doing to its core files as well as to functions.php 1. In the core files I had to change the store_address shortcode that is[…]

The Shiso Room FSOL Special – Future Music FM 13th Oct 2016

October 18, 2016October 18, 2016 Fragile WriterMusic

Fans of the legendary and all inspiring Future Sound of London may want to swing by this week. We are running a 2 hour special edition of all things by, inspired by, used by and[…]

The Drum Machine

October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 atticusclawGame Zone

The Shiso Room Third Anniversary – Future Music FM 29th Sept 2016

September 29, 2016October 4, 2016 BezMusic

Word up, The Shiso Room is officially 3 years old this week, though we have been broadcasting in various guises for much longer. We’ve also hopped around a couple of stations, but we are still[…]

Woocommerce: Alert at checkout when specific category is in basket

September 28, 2016October 4, 2016 Fragile WriterWoocommerce

I needed an alert at the checkout to warn people that an item in their basket had to be collected. To set the conditional alert at the checkout when specific category is in basket I[…]