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Mathematics PhD student at the University of Edinburgh with a (geeky) passion for anything coding related.

I develop WordPress plugins, including the event management plugin, Event Organiser. I also write for Wptuts+

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Mar
2
accepted restore_current_blog() vs switch_to_blog()
Mar
2
comment restore_current_blog() vs switch_to_blog()
Thought there wasn't any reason not to. Was confused why restore_current_blog() didn't just retrive the previous blog ID and call switch_to_blog() - a brief look at the code source and it seems there's a bit of code duplication...
Mar
2
asked restore_current_blog() vs switch_to_blog()
Mar
2
revised Querying post from a multisite network
restore_current_blog() must be called after each switch_to_blog()
Mar
2
revised find a random blogid across my multisite network that has at least one post published
restore_current_blog() must be called after each call to switch_to_blog()
Feb
6
reviewed Leave Open PHP unit testing WordPress?
Feb
5
comment Want to add my custom prepare query but add_filter doesn't run
Can you link to where prepare_query is in the core code? (I'm not sure it exists).
Jan
26
answered When does next Cron Job run (time from now)?
Jan
24
comment Is it possible to get a user with just the password field?
This is not entirely correct! Password hashes are salted (salts randomly generated for each user) - see github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/3.4.1/wp-includes/…. In general the same password won't have the same hash in the database. But as @toscho has said, its not collision safe (albeit collisions very unlikely).
Jan
24
comment How to theme code blocks formatted by the prettify.js embedded with WP-Markdown?
Core does not concatenate plug-in scripts/styles...
Jan
22
answered Looking for a way to take readers to random post when clicking a link
Jan
22
comment Shortcode return is printing a 1 afterward
@Dan Is include_once appropriate here - the shortcode could appear twice?
Jan
22
comment How to use 'Event Manager Shortcodes' plugin via the php code?
@bueltge I don't think that matters. At least I know [shortcode attribute=true] passes the value of attribute as a string rather than boolean.
Jan
22
answered How to theme code blocks formatted by the prettify.js embedded with WP-Markdown?
Jan
21
revised Styling an “active” link outside of Wordpress default menu
Added missing parenthesis to function.
Jan
19
reviewed Approve suggested edit on qTranslate get content by language
Jan
18
awarded  Informed
Jan
18
answered datetime picker, timestamps and meta queries
Jan
17
comment How to use 'Event Manager Shortcodes' plugin via the php code?
@Bhuvnesh It should work. You can pass attributes like that with do_shortcode. A bug with the plug-in perhaps? Probably best to ask them on the plug-in forums as there's not much else to add here :).
Jan
17
revised How to use 'Event Manager Shortcodes' plugin via the php code?
added 5 characters in body