These are the steps I went through with the help of Ben Huson to: 1) Set the locale of my Arabic site on my English language Multisite 2) Install the Arabic languages files on my English WordPress Multisite 3) ‘Activate’ the rtl style sheet for the front end of the Arabic website Set the locale […]
I'm an intermediate WordPress user particularly interested in creating multilingual websites with WordPress.
Being based in the UK my introduction to deeper WordPress usage was the Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, and the WordPress Birmingham (UK) Monthly meetup group
I run about 20 WordPress sites, in up to five languages, using multisite hosted by the Pressjitsu and developed with assistance from Very Twisty.
I have attended several WordPress courses given by Mike at MadLab in Manchester.
I have spoken at WordCamp UK Lancaster 2013 about Going Global with WordPress.
I have attended WordCamp Russia in Moscow twice.
Going Global with WordPress presentation WCUK 2013
I was delighted to deliver a presentation WCUK 2013 Going Global with WordPress 20130708 today during WordCamp Lancaster UK 2013 at Lancaster University. I wanted the presentation to facilitate discussion which it did despite a large audience. They were very kind to me 😉 and from feedback during and afterwards I learnt a lot more about making […]
Setting WordPress Multisite Locale
I’m running an English install of WordPress multisite with a few sites in languages other than English. I was dismayed see that multisite appeared to set the locale to en_US (English for the United States) for these non-English sites. Mike Little helped me to implement the following code to fix this: <?php add_filter(‘locale’,’sitename_locale’); function sitename_locale($locale){ […]
‘Interconnect IT’ Lego Twitter-Skittle dispenser WordCamp UK 2012
Interconnect IT built an automatic Twitter-Lego-Skittle dispenser at WordCamp UK 2012, which was activated by tweeting a hash tag. Great for geeks who are more interested in the Twitter integration that the Skittles, as you can see by the number uneaten Skittles lying in the collection tray!
Creating a custom 404 Page on douglawrence.org, using PHP and HTML
I’ve been spending way too much time recently on the ‘work-in-progress’ www.douglawrence.org website. So when I came across a custom 404 theme ‘Lost in Space – Error 404’ (by adraft) on ThemeForest, I couldn’t resist downloading and customising it to work with my website. It’s the best $4 I’ve ever spent. douglawrence.org is based on a WordPress theme called […]