About Simon Goodchild

Started a simple forum in December 2010, and over two years later WP Symposium is the end result. Sincere thanks to everyone who has purchased membership, supported WPS, provided feedback and been around!

Release information for v13.05

Posted by Simon Goodchild at May

Previous Release notes v13.04 v13.02 v12.12 Status Current phase is: Released Feature set scope complete (see below), but may change during development. Development phase completed. Testing phase complete. Final cleanup complete. Released: 9th May (4:20pm GMT). Admin Guide: Available online. To download the current release candidate, please read the manual upgrade instructions below. Please see notes on [...]

Develop a WordPress plugin with no programming skills? Easy!

Posted by Simon Goodchild at Apr

Variables? Loops? Arrays? Huh?! Don’t Panic! This black art, over a series of articles, will start with the development of your first plugin, through to arming your with know-how that will let terms like these trip of your tongue as easy as getting a cat to ignore you.

WP Symposium Settings

Posted by Simon Goodchild at Mar

Accessed via WP Symposium -> Manage -> Settings. Quite a lot of settings. But, as written on the cover of the greatest selling book in the history of the universe, don’t panic. (You haven’t read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? Read it. Now.) This just means that there are options for you to play with. However, [...]

Release information for v13.04

Posted by Simon Goodchild at Feb

Ongoing status and information on the v13.04 release.

Add login/logout automatically to WordPress menu

Posted by Simon Goodchild at Feb

How to automatically add a login/logout menu item to WordPress.

The WP Symposium admin guide

Posted by Simon Goodchild at Jan

For a complete list of admin guide chapters and each of their contents, please go to http://www.wpsymposium.com/admin-guide or see the contents page via the link above.