WorkPlace Snippets

Category: Site News

  • Switching to Responsive Theme

    I recently developed a site for a client using the excellent Responsive theme as a basis. As a result, I ended up joining the Responsive Free support forums, where the CyberChimps staff offer free CSS support for the theme.  It’s a great community with some clever, warm and friendly people and I very much enjoy being a part of it.

    Screenshot of Responsive Theme Free Support Forums
    Responsive Theme Free Support Forums

    Most of my work is now based on this theme and thus, it seems right to switch over to it on WPSnippets.  Over the course of time (probably months) I will gradually start customising it with a child theme. What this means for readers is that future WordPress tutorials and tips articles will be particularly helpful for those using Responsive.

  • Theme change to Twenty Twelve

    Happy 2013 to you all!  It’s been a long time since this site was updated so apologies to anyone who came here wanting to visit the excellent WP-Snippets.com instead.

    However, there are still things I would like to write about when it comes to WordPress and other topics, especially after reading Pippins’ 2012: Year in Review – which was more than inspiring – and although it will be difficult to match the greatness of his Pippins-ness, at least there is a gold standard one can aim for.

    We will see how this new year’s resolution goes, fingers crossed.

    In the meantime, WPSnippets has undergone a theme change from Twenty Ten to Twenty Twelve. It is no secret that I am a huge, huge fan of Twenty Ten. I was disappointed by its successor, Twenty Eleven, but Twenty Twelve restored my faith in the default theme due to its elegance and simplicity.

  • We have moved to self-hosting and a new domain!

    Although WordPress Snippets was only started last month (June) and I’ve only got round to posting one post, it seemed like a good idea to really take the blog a bit more seriously and purchase a domain.

    Thankfully WPSnippets.com was available, and initially I thought it would just be used for the WordPress.com version of the site. However, after weighing up some options, especially after reading Michael Martine‘s excellent Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted WordPress in Plain English, I came to the conclusion that it would be better to go the self-hosted route (as with all my sites) and re-launch WPSnippets.com.

    The new site uses a brand new theme called BASE, which was developed by Cobus Bester of FRESH01. I’m looking forward to tweaking it slowly!

  • Suggestions and comments welcome!

    I am starting to plan out some of the topics I would like write about for this site, and one area that I would like to focus on is evaluating the different ways one can use to create member-only sections of a site, particularly applicable if you’re using WordPress as a CMS (Content management system)

    Other than that, if you have any ideas, please do let use the contact form or just drop a comment in one of the posts to let us know!

    Thanks 😀

  • First post?

    A typical first post for any blog. It’s probably a good idea to keep this short and sweet, but as the title of the blog suggests, this ‘site’ will be dedicated to tips and snippets relating to WordPress.

    It’s actually quite addictive hanging around on the WordPress Forums (especially the Plugins and Hacks part!) as people ask some very interesting questions there, which often make me stop and think – so is there already a solution?

    In some ways, I wish I was fluent in PHP and all that jazz, but perhaps this makes one more dedicated towards searching for a solution, rather than coding something from the ground up.

    Anyway, still want to say a big thank you to all the plugin authors (and people on the forums!) for offering such great solutions to problems! 🙂 Hopefully this site will be of some help to others as well.