Being on a roll i decided to find the best option for a Popup window for WordPress. As you may know, at this time, there isn’t much choice in the WordPress plugin world for Pop up windows. The only one i found was the plugin ‘Simple Popup Plugin’ but if you have multiple popups on a page with different sizes it’s a problem. Not keen on slowing down WordPress with bulky plugins doing menial tasks so i went on a mission to find a better option.

Luckily I stumbled upon a good piece Jquery code with all the options you’ll ever want called PopUpWindow (centerBrowser pop up!).

To show multiple examples and download the latest version go here. (top 50, left 50 pop up!)

Have been wanting to embed my flash projects into my posts for some time, without the need for popups or unnecessary plugins, so had a good search for the best solution. i found the swfobject.js was the best.
Basically put your swfobject.js on your site and make sure you code it like this…

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.dalesullivan.com/swfobject.js"></script></p>
<div id="cont11">You need the flash player!</div>
<p><script type="text/javascript"><!--
var so = new SWFObject("http://www.dalesullivan.com/dale-thermometer2.swf", "me11", "220", "310", "7", "#ffffff");  so.write("cont11"); //--></script>

My portfolio website was about 5 years old and gathering web dust so i have decided to install WordPress, (the best CMS around), and do myself a nice new re-design. I think this is long overdue and am looking forward to using WordPress again, since 2.1, and having a blog .

I have designed and worked with lots of CMS’s including EasySite, ContentCurator, CMS Made Simple (not so simple), Joomla etc… but the new WordPress was for me. Also a real time saver is the new (WordPress 2.7) ‘auto upgrade’ button which tells you if an upgrade is ready, downloads and installs it automatically! I have used it already to upgrade to version 2.71. It installed in about 2 seconds. Get to upgrade by going to – Tools – Upgrade – ‘Re-install Automatically’.