Sam Burdge

My first blog since 2009!!!!!!

Wow, the time has just flown by!!! Sorry for the lack of recent code and wordpress goodness. Firstly, I am glad to see that my WP Post Columns Plugin is still going strong!!! Although it has not been updated since 2009 it seems that it is still working (for most people ...

WordPress Attachment Page Template Code Snippets

I haven't written as many WordPress tutorials as usual lately, as I have been so busy building websites and blogs, so I thought I would take the time out to share a few WordPress codes I have developed recently for attachment page templates and specifically the image attachment page template. ...

Street Fighter Widget

Get your hands on the new Street Fighter 2 widget. You can grab the widget code and embed it on your website, or even your myspace or facebook profile. This flash remake of the game is a very accurate copy of the arcade original featuring all the characters and bonus ...

aprettypenny.co.uk - Retro, antique & collectables store

A Pretty Penny is a new online store for everything retro and collectable including a wide range of designer glass and ceramics. I would highly recommend it as a place to get quirky, unusual Christmas presents! I built the store on the free shop script platform (which uses Smarty templates). Screenshot: The ...

New Wiki site for Football FanCast

I have recently been working on my first project on the MediaWiki platform, a football wiki site for FootballFanCast.com. The Football Fans Wiki is a wiki written from the fans perspective, with information about each team's stadium, transport info, where to eat & drink locally, songs, programmes, merchandise store, links,video ...

New e-commerce module for Admin76 CMS

I have been working for some months now to develop an e-commerce module for Admin76, the CMS which is currently exclusive to 76 Creative. The e-commerce module, called Cart76, utilises many of the nice features of Admin76 such as drag n drop functionality, advanced image gallery management, etc. It is ...

WordPress attachments hack

While working on a WordPress site recently I came up against a problem that had never occurred to me before. The client wanted each post excerpt on the homepage to include an image which when clicked would link to the main post (permalink) itself. The built in functions of wordpress ...

The Transfer Tavern

The Transfer Tavern is a pub themed blog / site about football transfer rumours. It features two different voting systems by which readers can vote on the pluasability of each rumour, deciding whether the rumour should 'Fly or Die' and also a beer rating to decide how drunk you would ...

Branded Quiz Games

I have developed a quiz game engine based on this original multi choice quiz by animike. The improvements I made to the original flash file are: Removed the need for an external XML file, which makes it easier to distribute virally as a stand-alone file. Added the ability to add infinite arrays ...

Widgetbox widgets

[column width="190px" padding="0"][/column][column width="190px" padding="0"][/column][column width="290px" padding="0"]I have just created these two widgets for my plugins feed and Zap Gamez over at Widgetbox. This is the most basic type of widget called a Blidget. Widgets are cool, I will definitely make more![/column][end_columns/]