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  1. Announcing Skaffold for WP 3.0

    Added on Monday 26th April 2010 — Tags: , , , 2 Comments

    After having a play around with the WP 3.0 Beta 1, I chucked together a quick wrapper for the new custom post type functionality, as it still felt a little convoluted. Skaffold is an attempt to create a higher level approach to custom post type generation, resembling something more akin to Rails model implementation. The [...]

  2. Latest project: T3 App Chart

    Added on Thursday 25th March 2010 — Tags: , , No Comments

    A few weeks ago we went into Future Publishing to build a bespoke Wordpress plugin to manage their upcoming T3 App Chart. The App Chart’s now launched to a massive user base and seems to be scaling pretty well!

    The plugin we built enables editors to add Applications, essentially custom post types under Wordpress, into the [...]

  3. Our latest Wordpress plugin: Buddypress paid membership

    Added on Friday 12th March 2010 — Tags: , , 1 Comment

    A few days ago I posted a tweet with a link to a plugin we’d abstracted from a project for a previous client and are now releasing as fully open source. After a couple of days of user testing and iteration, I’m very pleased to announce that Buddypress paid membership is now ready for [...]

  4. Post Images plugin for Wordpress

    Added on Friday 4th December 2009 — Tags: , , No Comments

    We’ve just pushed live our first open source Wordpress plugin, it’s called Post Images and solved a problem we were having quite frequently. We tend to build image rich websites for our clients, everything from blog content to ecommerce items can all benefit from a good thumbnail image.
    It helps the user find things problem, [...]