Stuart Duff

Beardyman – Live in the Underbelly Edinburgh Comedy Festival 2009

Stuart — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:32:04 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted on the blog and even longer since I seen a new Darren Foreman aka (Beardyman) video doing the rounds online. Today however I stumbled upon this great video of Beardyman appearing at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in 2009 performing a his solo beat-boxing show. What’s great about this [...]

Wordpress Premium Developer and Author Piracy My Thoughts

Stuart — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:29:24 +0000

As paid WordPress solutions like Themes, Plugins and eBooks rise in popularity so does that act of piracy with people downloading illegal copies of developers and authors content for free. Mostly all the popular paid wordpress premium products on the market today have been made freely available through the mediums of BitTorrent, eMule along with [...]

Limit Wordpress Posts Text Length Without The Use Of Plugins

Stuart — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:43:14 +0000

Sometimes when creating wordpress themes you might want to automatically limit the length of post text that is displayed in the main page post teaser view to make things easier for clients when writing articles. You could use a plugin like limit-post etc but I always find it much easier to contain all these type [...]

WooThemes Launch WooFramework Version 2.0

Stuart — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:56:11 +0000

WooThemes who could be considered the leading wordpress premium theme developer have announced that they are updating their wordpress WooFramework to a brand new version titled 2.0. The WooFramework is the structure upon which all WooTheme wordpress themes are built upon and where all your lovely WooThemes option are controlled from.The brand new version 2.0 [...]

Why I Am Being Forced By VirginMedia’s New Spying Tactic Cview DPI To Encrypt My Overall Internet Connection

Stuart — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:11:06 +0000

Christmas should be a time of joy for most people but if you are a VirginMedia subscriber like myself their latest attack on your privacy will bring very few Ho Ho Ho’s from customers. VirginMedia have recentley admitted to testing out CView a DPI “Deep Packet Inspection” system that looks and opens your Internet activity/traffic [...]

WPQuestions A Paid Problem Solving Site For Wordpress

Stuart — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:07:02 +0000

WPQuestions a Paid Problem solving site for wordpress launched this week and is a project by Darren Hoyt, Adii co-founder of WooThemes is also sponsoring and helping to market the site for the first few months. The function of WPQuestions is that members pay to ask wordpress related urgent emergency or help related questions and [...]

Display 3 in 1 Business – Portfolio An Absolutely Gorgeous Wordpress Theme

Stuart — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:02:50 +0000

Display is a stunning Wordpress Business – Portfolio Theme. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who dont know much about coding [...]

Top 25+ Wordpress Anti Spam Protection And Management Plugins

Stuart — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:31:58 +0000

After the post I made a few days back about a “Cool Little Wordpress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spammers” it got me thinking as to what plugins aside from Askimet are available for wordpress that help control spam. Some research later what I ended up putting together is a comprehensive list [...]

ThemeDreamer Adobe Dreamweaver Extension For Wordpress Themes

Stuart — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:13:10 +0000

If you have ever tried creating a WordPress theme in Dreamweaver, you know it’s not very easy and the process is rather repetitive. Even with a localhost WordPress installation with WAMP or similar, you are continually editing, saving, previewing, re-editing, etc. ThemeDreamer removes a lot of the hassles out of creating WordPress themes by integrating [...]

A Cool Little Wordpress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spammers

Stuart — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:26:01 +0000

If you own a Wordpress powered website you will most surely have Askimet enabled to help detect and easily manage spammers from posting comments. Askimet is a great plugin that has worked pretty successfully for me on all wordrpess sites that I own or administer. This little wordpress comment hack adds another layer of protection [...]