Category: Development
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Quick dirty forms, payment, registration, contact…
Recently we were asked to come up with the most cost effective way to create a registration form with a online payment functionality. Short of actually creating a new site and building in a registration form with some existing plugin functionality, it seemed to be quite a challenge. There is of course the great online…
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Dynamic Menus
There are many good tutorials to build custom menus for logged in/logged out users, see also our own post on the ajax login menu. There are more complex approaches in order to customise the individual menu items using a the wordpress Walker class. An excellent review of a custom walker can be found on the…
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Managing a development and live site
How to manage a development site in parallel to a live site and both being accessible online.
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Going multi-lingual with Polylang
Recently a client requested to introduce a second language section embedded within the default language site. The default being English and the new language being requested being Hindi, a North Indian language using the Devanagari script. This was an interesting challenge and we set about to break new grounds in our little enterprise. There are…
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Invoicing with WordPress
We have been looking out for a neat Invoicing plugin for quite some time and found various reviews about the different plugin available out there. We were looking for something rather straightforward, manage clients, manage invoices, manage payments. We initially set out to test the WP-Invoice plugin, however, we soon run into difficultities with some…
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Managing Dashboard Menus, Sub-menus and Labels
A recent project saw adopt the Vertex Elegant Theme which comes with a pre-built set of custom posts to create diverse content. The theme has 3 built-in custom posts: The requirement from the client is to use the theme for an online magazine. They have a group of editors and authors working on the current…
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WordPress log in / log out menus
One of the downsides of WordPress menus is the inability to have a set of menus for logged-in users that may differ from the primary menu. Many sites tackle this in various ways, but a conventional approach is to have a separate menus to handle the logged-in and logged-out states of the visitor. A menu…
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Responsive web design
It is important for new communications sites to be responsive because the greatest growth in internet connectivity is coming from mobile users