Paul Maloney is a UK based web designer/developer and runs the design agency Tropica (Tropica Web). He particularly enjoys using and working with WordPress and has a keen interest in typography. You can follow Paul on Twitter (@mcbonio).
Be sure to check out http://www.tropicaweb.co.uk
Posted on October 19, 2010 by Paul Maloney
Short URL’s have become big business across the worldwide web, Google, Twitter and Digg for example all have their own, and you then have the big boys of short URL such as bit.ly and is.gd. I recently wrote a Tutorial over on WPzine which covers making automatic short URLs in your posts for your readers […]
Continue ReadingPosted on September 23, 2010 by Paul Maloney
Using Gravatars in your blog comments is a great way to add some personality to your comments section and avoid a list of the default “mystery man” or even worse no avatars at all. WordPress does support Gravatars and can be used within your WordPress install but from my experience you can’t beat coding it […]
Continue ReadingPosted on September 16, 2010 by Paul Maloney
Timthumb is an awesome little PHP script, basically it auto creates a thumbnail from an uploaded image and it is mostly used in blogs. Many themes come with timthumb included but today I’m going to show you how to integrate it into your WordPress theme, and troubleshoot any server issues that can prevent it from […]
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