New WordPress Plugin: Custom Post Type Editor

May 9th, 2012 by James | Click to leave a comment »

We’ve recently been working with some WooThemes, and wanted rename the Whitelight theme’s Features custom post type to Tours.

We didn’t want modify the theme’s PHP files, so we developed a Custom Post Type Editor WordPress Plugin that lets you customise (override) one or more labels for any registered custom post type.

This screenshot shows the dashboard interface that was used to rename Features to Tours:

Renaming the Features Custom Post Type to Tours

Renaming the Features Custom Post Type to Tours

The end result is the WordPress dashboard now refers to Tours instead of Features:

Tours Dashboard Interface

Tours Dashboard Interface

Much less confusing!

Open Source Wins Again

We knew this functionality would be useful to others, so we’ve released the plugin to the WordPress.org plugin repository.

If you’re interested in contributing, the plugin’s source code is on Github.

Update 10 May 2012: The plugin has been featured on wpmu.org.

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Vinaceous – A Bit Flashy, but No Flash

March 2nd, 2012 by Glenn | Comments Off

Well, it is done.

Vinaceous is live, now fully powered by WordPress (with a bit of jQuery thrown in).

No more Flash, so it works real sweet on your iPad and iPhone. Now Mr Vinaceous can come up with new ways to show off the brand.

A pleasure to work once again with Peter McDonald from Public Creative – love your work Pete!

Now I think of it, I’m off to grab a bottle of Raconteur – let the weekend commence!

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No Flash on iPhones and iPads – Adobe

November 17th, 2011 by Glenn | Comments Off

Back on May 1 2010 I posted this: Flashpoint

Apple:

Steve Jobs from Apple has recently explained why iPhones and iPads don’t support Flash.

And now on Nov 15 2011 Adobe have published this: Flash to focus on PC Browsing

Adobe:

“We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations …

These changes will allow us to increase investment in HTML5 …”

With the rise in adoption of mobile platforms, it isn’t enough to be able to run just on desktop platforms and not mobile. Steve Jobs’ decision has certainly had an impact.

We can expect to see a lot more interest in WordPress with HTML5/jQuery.

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Adventure Bay Charters Networks with YouTube

November 4th, 2011 by Judy Weinert | Comments Off

Adventure Bay Charters Screen ShotFor Adventure Bay Charters, networking with social media is an effective addition to their OM4 website.

Along with Facebook and Twitter, Adventure Bay Charters are making use of their own YouTube channel.

By creating and linking to their own YouTube channel Adventure Bay Charters are directing their customers to their own exclusive YouTube location.

That means no more YouTube links to related videos that may distract your customers from your story.

Why not view the Adventure Bay Charters YouTube Channel and see for yourself!

 

 

 

 

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Bindoon Citrus is Pick of the Crop

November 3rd, 2011 by Judy Weinert | Comments Off

Bindoon Citrus Home pageBindoon Citrus is a small family owned and operated orchard north of Perth, Western Australia.

Owners Helen and Shane Martin asked OM4 for a simple online shop to distribute their produce as it becomes available seasonally.

The OM4 WordPress Content Management System makes it easy keep the website current with details about varieties and availability. And the site uses the PayPal payment system to accept secure credit card payments from Visa and Mastercard.

Helen says of the site, “I have found our new website has worked extremely well.  There has been no problems with the PayPal incorporation and our customers have had an trouble free experience ordering and contacting us if required.”

With its fresh design and simple navigation, the Martin family produce can be harvested, packed and distributed by Australia Post fresh from the tree.

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Paying Attention to Google

October 13th, 2011 by Glenn | Comments Off

Ok, for anyone involved in the web, it is hard not to pay attention to Google. But humour me for a moment.

Cafepress Sitelinks

Cafepress Sitelinks - courtesy of Google

With all the noise generated by the antitrust brouha, Google+ and the like, it would be easy to miss stuff like this. Sitelinks, visual ads, local ads, social ads … very, very important if your business gets value from search.

Google has been rapidly changing the rules in relation to who gets attention in the search engine result pages (SERPs). In some niches, a #1 ranking in the organic search results might *just* mean you are visible below all the other stuff on the SERP. Google AdWords results, Google Places results and so on.

This isn’t exactly new. If you read Aaron Wall’s excellent SEOBook.com blog, you would have seen his chart asking Where Did Google’s Organic Search Results Go?. That process – called out in 2009 – has been steadily progressing, and the 2011 version is not pretty for organic search … The Sales Engine.

So, if you are paying attention to Google, you might want to spend more time paying attention to all the different ways you can use AdWords to get your share.

Read it and pay attention: Ads Are Just Answers

Attention sure ain’t free.

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The Value of Positioning

October 10th, 2011 by Glenn | Comments Off

Grafform Formwork Perth, WA

Grafform Formwork

Recently we’ve built another website with Tracy Graffin, this time for her husband Paul Graffin’s business: Grafform.

The website exemplifies how design can help position a company. In a market where there are many different options, the design makes clear what a prospective client can expect from Grafform.

There is a saying that relates to the movies and screen writing: show, don’t tell.

This maxim applies to websites as well. It isn’t enough to just say it, or even to just include portolio references or testimonials. Great websites use design to help show what is on offer. It is a different language, and very powerful.

And in case you haven’t seen Tracy’s work … Tracy Graffin Graphic Design

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Long pages get the Google tick of approval

September 27th, 2011 by Glenn | Comments Off

Sometimes you’ll hear people suggest you should design short pages to save people the trouble of having to scroll down.

Testing referred to by Google on their Webmaster blog indicates that people prefer scrolling longer pages than having to navigate from one page to the next:

User testing has taught us that searchers much prefer the view-all, single-page version of content over a component page containing only a portion of the same information with arbitrary page breaks (which cause the user to click “next” and load another URL).

Read the full article here: View All in Search Results.

As always, the basic rule should be that you only use as much content as required to communicate what is needed. But if you do need more copy to get your point across, don’t feel compelled to break up the thought into separate pages just to avoid scrolling.

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Topdidj Cultural Translation

September 21st, 2011 by Judy Weinert | Comments Off

Topdidj Website ScreenshotTop Didj & Art Gallery has a story to tell, and like many tourism operators some of its audience speaks a language other than English.

Petrena & Alex Ariston included clickable links to transalations in German, Italian and French. They have also added a Testimonial video from a French-speaking visitor.

Working with Webnoise and OM4, the Aristons now have a website that shares their story with a much wider audience.

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50% off ImageWell

September 9th, 2011 by Glenn | Comments Off

Up until September 14th 2011 you can get 50% off ImageWell Version 3.

This is a great little image editor for the Mac, the perfect companion for anyone who works with a WordPress website. Use it to quickly resize (file size and dimensions) or crop images before uploading them to your site.

Apart from being the fastest and easiest to use image editor around, ImageWell has a brilliant (but non obvious) ‘Crop and Size to Fit’ feature that is extremely useful if want to create images of a specific height and width. This happens a lot when you are working with a website.

By default you can set a height (or width) in pixels, and ImageWell will set the width (or height) to retain the aspect ratio. That means you can quickly size an image to a certain width, which is useful for placing a button in a sidebar, for example.

But … if you set a height first, you can then click the lock icon to unlock the aspect ratio, and then set a specific width. You can then use the slider to control what part of the image gets cropped. This works very easily – once you know how. And it makes it very easy to get an image to an exact size.

(Xtralean document this very poorly – if you know what you are looking for you can find it here: Crop and Size to Fit)

If anyone from Xtralean is reading this post … please keep the Crop to Size and Fit feature in for V5!

Now, about the 50% off offer …

According to Xtralean …
“If you haven’t already purchased ImageWell, now is the time to get it. Version 5 – “The Best of ImageWell” – is coming soon and will be a free upgrade to registered users. V5 will be our best version yet! We’ve taken all of the features fromVersions 1 through 4, improved the interface, and leveraged all of the latest features of Snow Leopard and Lion. We’re also adding a few other gems as well as an improved built-in batch processor.”

Offer Details:
Sale Price 50% Off: $9.95 (Reg. Price is $19.95)
Coupon Code: IW50 Offer Expires: Sept.14, 2011
Try it out: Download Imagewell Trial
How to Buy: Use coupon code IW50 at the Xtralean Online Store

System Requirements:
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OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 or later

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