Category: Blog

Notes on migrating between Synology NAS with HyperBackup

19 – 05 – 23

There are a number of ways to migrate your data, depending on the age of the NAS, OS […]
Quick and portable PHP compatibility check

12 – 05 – 23

For mission critical applications you need a lot more care, but for that simple side-gig or personal project […]
Filtering customTemplates from theme.json with a plugin

17 – 01 – 23

Recently I was rebuilding the Helpful Digital intranet using a WordPress block theme called UniBlock. As part of […]
Mapping series – an aside, a note on views in MySQL

16 – 02 – 20

While working on a project recently – a mapping one which required complex queries – I worked more […]
Mapping series – MySQL queries against latitude and longitude

15 – 02 – 20

I’m starting this series with the simplest aspect – a MySQL query to return rows based on radius […]
Mapping series – Working with Algolia Places address autocompletion api

19 – 05 – 19

For a recent mapping project I implemented Algolia Places for address autocompletion to turn an address into latitude and […]
New theme, dark mode, upcoming blogs

01 – 05 – 19

Trying to give myself a nudge to complete some 1/2 written posts, and write the unwritten ones, I […]
Exclude certain posts from search

31 – 01 – 18

Excluding posts (or custom post types) from search results when they meet certain criteria is easy in theory. […]
Selecting title, meta and multiple term names with MySQL

11 – 01 – 18

I often run one off reports for clients directly from the MySQL database behind their (normally WordPress) websites. […]
Ignore spaces when group MySQL query results

27 – 11 – 17

Let's get a list of all duplicate postcodes (could be any string of course) out of a specific […]