As the brexit referendum becomes a memory there are some resounding changes that have happened to the UK’s collective consciousness. I’ve read two “opinion” articles this morning – one from the Financial Times “Britain is[…]
How to implement Scroll to Fixed – navigation effect
I am trying to implement a scroll to fixed navigation bar in a wordpress theme. The bar is beneath a banner image and then as the page was scrolled to a certain point the navigation[…]
Maintenance mode plugins
Something I often need to implement inside wordpress is an under-maintenance page. This can be a total annoyance because there’s so many under maintenance plugins out there and many of them won’t take custom html.[…]
Adding a taxonomy separate to categories for wordpress
I had a situation where I wanted to use categories for different sorts of reviews, but I also wanted them location based to allow growth in the future. I didn’t want to create loads of[…]
What’s going on in the USA?
With the shocking murder of five police in America on Friday it seemed like a moment when the powers that be could take notice and take action to restore people’s faith in the police in[…]
The Shiso Room + LES GARÇONS BIEN ÉLEVÉS – Future Music FM 7th July 2016
In honour of Wales and their triumphant performance at the Euro’s, we take an exploratory mission through some of their great electronic musical heritage. We are also proud to present Parisian DJ Collective LES GARÇONS[…]
A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003
Credit: http://www.theasian.asia/archives/95335
Chilcot Report publication
The Chilcot Report is being published today. I wonder what that will mean for the world. There is a body of peace philosophy which determines to decide whether there is such a things as a[…]
Post Brexit Thoughts
I really feel that this has been a dark week for Britain, Europe and the world in general. All except for Wales playing so well in the Euros and beating Belgium so decisively. But football[…]
Testing an Oovoo embedded video chatroom
I’m experimenting with embedding a video chat room using oovoo as a client has asked about doing something like that and now I’m like a dog with a bone trying to figure it out.
The Shiso Room – Future Music FM 23rd June 2016
We are warming up for our mammoth solstice session this weekend, so here’s a decent selection to get into the swing of things. Firmly steering clear of any EU argy bargy nonsense (well almost, I’ll[…]
Display post listing differently if there’s more than 3 in the category
Basically I just wanted to display only titles with a link in a page sidebar for posts in a category where there were more than three but I wanted to show the full content for[…]
Change single.php for posts in child of category
Sometimes WordPress can tie you in knots trying to figure out something that should seemingly be simple. In this situation I was searching for a solution to make wordpress check if a single post was[…]
RMA email notifications – OpenCart Returns
I was surprised to discover that RMA notifications aren’t sent automatically by OpenCart. There’s an easy fix
Bill Hicks on gun control
Bill Hicks so often spoke truth. He was taken from this fragile planet far too soon
EU referendum – what a sham
A referendum on something with such huge implications as EU membership is utterly inappropriate. No-one in the general population, save a few scholars, can possibly have studied the political, social and economic effects of such[…]
How to work with opencart
I am really enjoying working with OpenCart 2.2.0.0, I’m a big fan of wordpress but it’s not brilliant for online sales – it’s okay, but opencart is a great interface if all you really want[…]
The Shiso Room – Future Music FM 9th June 2016
Lovely selection of warm and slightly lazy tuneage this week. The weather has been incredible here in Ireland of late, and I plan to reflect that again in my choices of cuts. We have a[…]
Crisis of Capitalism
This is an old video that popped up on my facebook memories today, so I thought I’d pop it on here because it’s still very relevant to the world.
The Shiso Room – Future Music FM 26th May 2016
Awesome selection of warm and uplifting stuff to chill out to on these extended sunny evenings. It’s hardly going to be Cafe del Mar, but it’s how I roll when summer’s round the corner.