A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how to upload plugins to WordPress.org – and now I give to you, my second WordPress plugin – bm-comment-highlight.Comment Highlight does exactly what it says on the tin. If you look around you...
I recently got my bm-custom-login plugin accepted onto the Wordress plugin repository. In order to get it online I had to use subversion – something I’ve never used before.I found the “using svn page” on wordpress.org to be rather intimidating....
Finally – an update to Regulus. The updates are coming further and further apart, and this is simply because the theme does everything I set out to do… and quite a bit more. This version is mostly bug fixes but...
Whilst working on my update to Binary Moon I’ve been thinking about the differences between websites and blogs. One of the things I am trying to do with the updated design is steer slightly away from the stereotypical blog layout...
Gone are the days of marquees, animated gifs and embedded midi files (thank God) but there are still things that people do that drive others crazy.Since I am (still) working on my “redesign” for Binary Moon I thought I would...
In my Adsense tips post, I recently discussed the use of time-based ads and how they can be beneficial. Specifically, I like to display ads based on the age of the article, but please note that I only implement this...
I have spent a long time trying to improve the advertising earnings on my websites and I have managed to go from a couple of dollars a month to 3 figures in a relatively short time, without increasing the amount...
It’s cool to have the WordPress login page customized to fit your own website branding. This is even more significant for multi author blogs, or sites you have set up for clients as it adds that little extra something.Since writing...
One of the more underused features in wordpress themes is the ability to create and modify the 404 page – so to try to rectify this I thought I’d run through what I do with 404 pages on Binary Moon...
Some time ago I posted the first of my tips and tricks for WordPress, and I thought it was about time I posted some more so, to start things off, here is a short tutorial on custom page templates in...
I really like Google Analytics. I use it pretty much exclusively for my website stat tracking, and the recent update is wonderful. However there are a few things I would like to change to improve it even more.In case you...
Functions.php is a little known wordpress template file. Not many themes take advantage of it but , used properly, it can be incredibly powerful. The file can be used as a way to add your own functions to wordpress themes...
I’m sure I remember reading something like this at the start of the year (I’m making the quote up). We (Google) are now going to stop releasing stacks of new stuff, and instead focus on improving what we haveIt’s not...
I posted the applications I install when I get a new computer the other day, and it got some interesting comments so I thought I would post the Firefox extensions I use as well. Many blogs have this type of...
I’m sure most people know about this but the ability to post things in advance with WordPress is absolutely great. My two blogs (this one and Binary Joy) posted 16 articles whilst I was on holiday despite me not being...
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago I have been workng on an update to Regulus. There are only a couple of small changes to the main Regulus file. The big change is the addition of translations. German translation Italian...
Binary Joy is a website dedicated to video games, but not just any games. Good games. Games you enjoy. We will feature any game, as long as the person doing the writing enjoys what they are playing. This means that...
I said in my last post about Regulus that it would be the last version of the theme released. As far as I was concerned it was complete. Since then a few small things have cropped up and these will...
The old Miniclip website was a nostalgic playground for gamers, filled with simple flash games ideal for wasting time on. Unfortunately it is no more. This post was written in 2006. As of 2015 I no longer work at Miniclip....
Over the last year and a bit Binary Moon has slowly evolved. Rather than redesign my site every few months I have chosen to update and improve as I go. Doing this I have added a few little features that...
A small update with a few new features. The reason for this post, rather than updating the last post, is that I now consider Regulus complete. Barring any show stopping bugs there will be no new updates to Regulus, it’s...