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 adds to support staff!
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Nov
Please welcome Robert on board to help with WP Symposium support!
Styling the horizontal profile/group menu
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Nov
Learn how to style the horizontal menu for Profile (from v12.11) and Group (from v13.02) pages.
How is WP Symposium site built?
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Sep
Hosting, the theme and plugins, and styles used on www.wpsymposium.com.
Release Schedule Update
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Sep
Important information on the new release schedule.
Getting latest version, warning of holiday and what it means for WP Symposium support and PayPal disputes, please read, thanks.
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Aug
Holiday notice (impact on support and helpdesk) Support for WP Symposium will be impacted by holidays. As is traditional (can the second year be traditional?) during the holiday period WP Symposium releases and support will be effected as follows: No major new changes mid July to end of August (to avoid introducing major issues and [...]
Important to remember when upgrading to v12.04.28
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Apr
With all the Bronze plugins now part of the download from WordPress.org you need to remove the Bronze plugin folders from your wp-content/plugins folder. Do this via FTP, do not uninstall them via the admin dashboard (if uninstalling, tables in the database are removed!). In your wp-content/plugins folder, using FTP delete all wp-symposium-***** folders EXCEPT [...]
All quiet on the WP Symposium front…
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Apr
Update on why there hasn’t been a release in the couple of weeks
v12.01.07 release notes
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Jan
The next few weeks will focus on building up a set of classes that will supplement the existing functions and constants available within WP Symposium to support theme and plugin development, plus other enhancements!
Happy New Year!
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Dec
I hope you have all had a great Christmas break, you are enjoying the festivities and will have an awesome new year! I will not be putting out a release this Saturday (31st December) as there are not enough changes to warrant it (for you and me!). So, enjoy the transition from 2011 to 2012 [...]
A short history of WP Symposium
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Oct
A personal recollection of developing WP Symposium from it’s conception to reality. And gosh, how much tea has been needed?
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