Richard Shepherd

This is a tutorial for beginners, and we were all beginners once.
To a beginner I remember custom fields looking quite pointless. I couldn’t quite grasp what they were for.
Then, after building a few WordPress sites, I watched an excellent tutorial from Chris Coyier over at CSS Tricks and it really opened my eyes. There’s a [...]

So today I needed to display photos from our Flickr Group without using php or asp.net. I have a WordPress widget that does this job nicely, but no PHP was allowed.
Thank goodness for jQuery! jQuery has a handy little function which allows us to load JSON data using an HTTP GET request, and then process [...]

A new tab has appeared at the top of this page, which links through to FlickrBox (formerly the phpFlickr Widget).
It will be launched to no fanfare whatsoever next week, when I upload the widget to WordPress. Pending their most gracious approval, of course.
In the mean time you can head over and have a look at [...]

You may have noticed a new widget in the sidebar called the phpFlickr Widget.
It’s a widget I have developed for WordPress which allows you to include your Flickr photos in your blog, and display them with the rather funky Slimbox tool. Click on one of the photos and see what I mean. Slimbox, as well [...]