Design Is Philosophy
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.
Category Archives: wordpress
Using the time tag in WordPress and when parsing RSS feeds
Jan. 30, 2012
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The <time> tag is a little used but very effective little HTML element that allows you to embed additional information to dates and times in your content. The idea is that in addition to the actual text that shows the … Continue reading
WordPress on Windows Azure – a bit of history
Nov. 3, 2011
In February 2011 I had the fortune of getting a meeting with Alessandro Catrioni, head of the Azure Interop team at Microsoft. We had a long chat about the possibility of creating a persistent, scaleable WordPress Networks solution that could run natively … Continue reading
How to remove WP Geo plugin from specific pages
Oct. 30, 2011
I ran a cross a rather interesting situation this week while working on the Vi Er Der Du Er site. The site uses the WP Geo plugin extensively on both pages, and posts, and custom post types but I needed … Continue reading
WordPress on Windows Azure: Single-Site Deployment
Oct. 3, 2011
UPDATE November 2, 2011: The WordPress on Azure scaffolder has been updated and a new and easier process has been introduced. In response this tutorial has been rewritten to reflect the new methods. In this step-by-step tutorial I’ll take you … Continue reading
Custom Page Templates in TwentyTen
Apr. 5, 2011
With the release of WordPress 3.1 came a new version of the stock TwentyTen theme with some subtle changes, most importantly the move of all the loop elements in the templates (the code that runs through the database and gathers … Continue reading
IE9 Pinned Sites for WordPress
Apr. 1, 2011
With the release of Internet Explorer 9 came a new and very cool feature that can greatly enhance the user experience for frequent visitors and also increase exposure for sites that activate it. The feature is called Pinned Sites and … Continue reading
Jetpack – New must-have WordPress Plugin
Mar. 17, 2011
UPDATE: As of around 3pm Thursday the WordPress.com Stats plugin seems to be back up and running although it is producing some very strange stats that don’t correspond with what the stats in Jetpack produces. Weird stuff, and as far … Continue reading
Add a Twitter-like “Published X Days Ago” timestamp to your WordPress posts
Feb. 18, 2011
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a massive WordPress project that has required a lot of interesting and unusual components that step well outsie of what is normally expected from WordPress and its plugins. Once the … Continue reading
WordCamp:Developers – a WordPress conference for WordPress developers
Feb. 2, 2011
Get your calendars out and mark this date down with a pen: Thursday May 5th, 2011. In fact, mark that whole week down. Vanessa Chu, Anny Chih and I are putting on the first ever WordCamp:Developers as part of Vancouver … Continue reading
WordCamp Victoria Presentation: 10 Theme Hacks to Improve Your Site
Jan. 22, 2011
Above is the slide deck for my WordCamp Victoria presentation entitled “10 WordPress Theme Hacks to Improve Your Site”. Unlike my regular presentation this one is entirely slides based which means if you just read the slides, you’ll get the … Continue reading