This site has been getting sluggish – too many database calls in all the widgets etc – so I thought I would try and speed things up. Throughout this process, I’ve been using the very helpful ‘is my blog working‘ tester to check delivery / processing times. It’s interesting to check this site against others […]

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formatting code for blog
one of the issues that vexed me for a while was how to format code extracts in this blog. I wanted a system that could be used for a variety of different languages (c++, visual basic, css, php etc) and could be expanded […]

a recent posts widget
In order to try and get a few more photos into the content, I wanted to have widget (which sits down the right hand side of the screen) which would display recent posts from either 1 particular category, all categories […]

wordpress categories navigation tree
I wanted to created a ‘navigation tree’ of all the categories (or specific defined categories on my site). For example, all the ‘Gallery’ pages have on the right-hand side of the screen a list of each of the ‘gallery posts’ which […]