I am involved in a number of different creative, mostly web based projects outside of my normal freelance day-to-day work. All of the website projects are based on WordPress which I specialise in customising as a full CMS platform. Other projects include supporting WordPress with plugin coding development and theme development, most of which I release free to the community under the GPL license so other people can benefit from my work.
Photoshop Ninja
Photoshop Ninja is a WordPress based website I started back in 2005. It began as a way to share tips and tricks with fellow creatives and has grown to include downloads, news and opinions along with a whole bunch of other interesting stuff for Photoshop users. It gets around 9,000 visits a month and has lead to some interesting partnerships and opportunities, including book proposal reviews for various publishers and my work featuring in Photoshop Creative magazine in the UK and Netherlands.
WordPress CMS Website
I am an avid user (and fan) of WordPress – in-fact that’s what this site is running on! I run a site that is a slowly growing archive of useful information for developers and designers that are looking to harness this platform as a content management system. I have scheduled in a complete redesign on this project for early 2010, so look out for big changes!
WordPress Plugin Development
I have written a number of plugins for WordPress, one of which I have currently released to the public – WP-CMS Post Control. This is a popular plugin, with well over 20,000 downloads on last check! It is often quoted as an ‘essential plugin’ for people that are using WordPress as more of a content management system. I have a number of other plugins that I aim to launch under a GPL license in the future.
Visit WP-CMS Post Control plugin page
In Development – WordPress Theme Framework
I am currently putting together a free GPL theme framework that I aim to launch to the public during the latter stage of 2009. It will be CMS focused rather than blog based, with strong customisation options for developers and designers. This is a collaborative project with another freelance web developer.
In Development – Style blog
My long suffering girlfriend is getting a bit of payback for my late nights working by getting a style blog designed by me! This will be based on WordPress with a few custom bells and whistles as per her requests.
In Development – Secret Fun Project
I have purchased a domain name and am in the creative development stages of a fun little project – no guessing now for those who have heard the rumors!
In Development – Secret Creative Project
I am in the planning stages of a creative web project that will help out aspiring artists. This is a collaborative project and will again be based on WordPress.
