The call for a secondary user system in WordPress

The user system in WordPress is great with its functions for roles and capabilities  but as WordPress is used more and more for membership and e-commerce sites where we have the need for a login system for members and customers who shouldn’t have to access the admin panel. The WordPress user The user system in WordPress was build […]

Show number of posts per month in WordPress

Running a site like laernogetnyt.dk where we have user registrations and post creation it’s nice as an admin to have an overview of number of posts created. What I wanted was a list of the months in a year and the total number of posts created that month – and if no posts where created […]

Curtain falls – Indiemondo is closing

It’s with a heavy heart that I have to say that we’re closing our VOD site indiemondo.com. After a few years up and running we have to admit that it’s just not profitable for either us or the film makers. When I look back I can spot some now obvioues mistakes we made, but the concept […]

Widget to show user progress in WordPress

User progress widget in WordPress

If you run a membership site one way to encourage users to finish their profile is with a little bit of gamification. Here I’ll show how to make a widget to show user progress in WordPress. At laernogetnyt.dk we wanted to give logged in users some advice on how to improve their profiles without having them searching around […]

WordPress A-Z taxonomy list

A-Z-taxonomy-list

Taxonomies are great to group and organize  content. We’ll take a look on how to make an A-Z list of entries in a given taxonomy in WordPress.  When we build Indiemondo we made a taxonomy for tagging films up with festivals. With over a thousands festivals simply making a long list and expect vivistors to browse thorugh was […]

Buy Me Time web app

buy-me-time

Generate fake PDF’s which your boss will fail to open, buying you an extra day to finish the real one. The Buy Me Time web app got made after a bit of drinking and talking about ‘dirty tricks’ in working life. Check it out here: buymetime.bakadesign.dk

Page link generator for WordPress

page link generator

Plugin is no longer active On indimondo.com we wanted to give the film makers a chance of putting a button on their website that links to their film. So we build a small plugin listing all the films and when a film was chosen a link button was generated. I’ve wrapped up the code and […]

WordPress category meta fields

category meta fields

The default category pages in WordPress are great at collections of posts – as they are intended, but on some sites  – fx this one – the category pages would work better if they look more like landings pages – enter The Category Meta Boxes. So how do we do this? Luckily a guy much […]

Really simple responsive image slider for WordPress

Plugin is no longer active Really simple responsive image slider for WordPress is a small plugin a created for the ivaerksaetterpress.dk site. It’s the same slider that features the screen shots on this page. [rsris_slider] If you want to use it, grap it from the WordPress Plugin page

WordPress as a VOD platform

wordpress as vod

When we started planning Indiemondo.com WordPress was chosen as platform becasue it was the system I knew and loved. It has not let us down and actually WordPress made a much better platform than anticipated. The post format and taxonomy capabilities (not unique to WordPress I suppose) are pretty much all you need to set up […]