Recently I worked on a Wordpress site where I wanted to be able to customise the dashboard for different user roles. Wordpress by default has administrators, editors, authors, contributors and subscribers. It’s not too much to assume you might not want to show your editors or authors all the details of your blog posts etc and this short snippet will allow you to do just that.

These functions and hooks let you customise the output of the_excerpt() template tag. Just copy and paste into the functions.php file in your theme. This works for both posts and pages.

Welcome to Part 2 of my YUI Carousel series. If you haven’t read it, Part 1 is here. Part 2 uses class names to setup multiple carousel instances, and also drops the YUI CSS in favour of writing your own custom css. The final Part 3 will show you how to write your own completely custom navigation for the carousel.

If you haven’t already read the first part of this tutorial, I suggest that you do. If you want to follow along, then please setup your workspace with a basic HTML file and somewhere to put Javascript, CSS & images now, the demonstration page is here . I’ll be using the same images as last time, same rules apply!

Welcome to my first JavaScript related post! I’m currently in the process of both learning *proper* JavaScript and trying to get to grips with the YUI framework. If you have suggestions for how to improve the following code I’d love to hear them.

The YUI Carousel widget is currently in Beta, and the navigation that it generates is very basic and, unlike the rest of the YUI framework, doesn’t have the necessary CSS hooks to style it properly. This may change with the release of YUI 3.0, but the Carousel widget isn’t included yet. So for the time being this three-part series will show you how to setup a Carousel & build custom navigation.

Generally, when I find something interesting I use twitter & delicious to spread the word, but this morning something in my RSS Reader got me excited enough to decide to write a blog post. Thomas Rabaix has hit the nail on the head with his latest offering: Wording is not a developer job. Not only with his underlying premise, but also with the solution he has developed and offered to the world.

Symfony is one of my favourite bits of technology. I’ve got plans to write several articles and tutorials on it, but as I know many people haven’t yet heard of it, or are unaware of how it could help them, I thought it best to write an introductory article. So, here is an explanation of what Symfony is, why I use it, and why you may want to start using it too.