Life @ High Road Communications

Web-related news from my job at iStudio High Road Communications

Plugin bugs, or “gotcha’s”, when used in WPMU

In the days leading up to the Christmas break I was involved in creating a WPMU-powered WordPress blog for one of our clients. This was the first time we (iStudio) or I had used this product, so as you might expect there were a few growing pains that were encountered along the way. Since I [...]

WordPress Plugin Release: Menu Order

Last week I entered into the WordPress development world to create a plugin that I personally had a real need for – better page hierarchy setup within WordPress.
If you have any experience with creating a CMS-type site with WordPress, you’ll know that setting up the navigation structure can be a tedious and time-consuming task – [...]

Skinning IdeaJam by Elguiji Software

One of our clients here at iStudio was looking to have a custom design/ skin applied to an idea management software package they were using called IdeaJam. IdeaJam is a product of Elguji Software, LLC, and is used by a number of big-name companies from around the world.
The concept is amazingly simple, yet extraordinarily powerful: [...]

Creating a fully functional CMS with WordPress, WPML and Flutter

Working on a redesign for a client, which is being built with WordPress. The client had a theme already created, so what had to be done was considerable content-population as well as building and structuring the site.
This site is multilingual – English and French and is fairly large with approximately 60 pages in each language. [...]

YouTube video stream in a WordPress blog

While working on a WordPress blog implementation for a client, I came up with a bit of an interesting solution for a feature request they had.
In short, they wanted to be able to show a list of videos from their YouTube channel, but be able to pick-and-choose which ones to display.
Originally I thought [...]

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