Alan’s Personal Techy Website

  • Why businesses should use a Google Apps consultant?

    Google Apps consultants help businesses do what they need to do –  that is focus on their businesses but still get the IT solutions they need. As a consultant brings expertise that isn’t available in-house either because of skill or resource constraints. Google Apps is a set of tools that totally replaces the Microsoft Office…

  • Moving email to Google Apps

    This is the first post of mine relating to Google Apps for Works, or as it used to be called Google Apps for Business. One of the primary reasons a business moves to Google Apps is for email, well at least this is a very common reason.  Google Apps actually provides so much more than…

  • WordPress Woocommerce to Parcelbright integration

    Parcelbright is a uk parcel service for businesses. Woocomerce is the leading WordPress ecommerce plugin. I am in the process of building a plugin to integrate Parcelbright into WordPress using their API. Features could include Create a shipment: View a shipment: Book a shipment: Track a shipment: Cancel a shipment: There is quite a lot…

  • Google Chrome extract links

    Extract links from a Google Chrome page Inspect element Go to console run urls = $$(‘a’); for (url in urls) console.log ( urls[url].href );  

  • Genesis Adding a Read More Button to Excerpts on Archives

    With Genesis when you select archives to display excerpts, you don’t get a read more link or button, just some dots. Although you can click on the title, this isn’t intuitive or user friendly. The following code snippet can handle this add_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘bw_excerpt_read_more_link’ ); function bw_excerpt_read_more_link( $output ) { if( ‘post’ === get_post_type() )…

  • How to create a property website that is synchronised to your back office system

    Many estate agents want their property listings synchronised automatically to their website. They don’t want to input details in both places. This blog post explains one method to achieve a website synchronised from the agency back office system. For this recipe: To start with you need a back office system that can produce a .blm…