Written by Keith on the 21st December, 2011. Filed under: News
There has been a massive neglect to this blog as we have been working on other people’s sites over the last few years. So just want to give you guys a little update on what exactly is going on and what we have planned for the new year.
What we have done
- Designed tons of gambling related sites for affiliates big and small.
- Launched our own e-commerce site (one of the goals I always had).
- Custom designed some themes for the WordPress platform for sale on a well known marketplace.
- Created our own Eire Studio framework for WordPress.
- Got yet another mention in a book about design.
- Worked on one Ireland’s largest building provider’s website.
What we are working on
- More custom WordPress themes.
- No Deposit Bingo, Ireland’s newest bingo portal.
- Site redesign for this site, yeah I know it’s been ages and the design is looking old and dated!
- A personal project that will be launching in the mid year.
- Tutorials!!
Hope the year has been good to you all.
Happy Christmas!
Written by Keith on the 21st October, 2011. Filed under: Found
A very cool interactive video made for Ellie Goulding’s Lights song. The music video uses WebGL (3D graphics for the browser) and looks just amazing.
Written by Keith on the 20th October, 2011. Filed under: Website Inspiration
Elegant design, grid aligned and vintage style illustrations makes this New Zealand based studio into our web inspiration list. 2pxBorder believe in the “Less is More” approach to design and they sure practice what they preach.
EDIT: Just noticed the website is responsive too, extra brownie points guys.
Written by Keith on the 1st June, 2011. Filed under: General
Jigoshop‘s new e-commerce plugin is finally out of beta and is in the WordPress directory available for immediate download. There are a few WordPress e-commerce plugins available already but having tried quite a few of them, I do think we need something better, maybe Jigoshop could be the answer.
Jigoshop looks really modern and the default theme is absolutely gorgeous, I will be playing with this plugin very soon and report back with my findings.
Well done to the team, hope it’s a huge success for you!
Written by Keith on the 4th May, 2011. Filed under: Tips & Tricks, WordPress
In this little tutorial, we will be creating a simple meta box in WordPress that will be displayed when we are writing a new post. The meta box we will create is very basic and will only print some text but this will get you comfortable with using them.
First off, open up your functions.php file and add the following code.
add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'eirestudio_create_meta_box');
function eirestudio_create_meta_box()
{
add_meta_box('eirestudio_meta_wrapper', 'My Super Meta Box', 'eirestudio_display_meta_box', 'post', 'side' ,'default', '');
}
function eirestudio_display_meta_box()
{
echo 'Eire Studio welcomes you!';
}
Heres how it works
The add_action function attaches a custom function (which we have to create) to an action; the action we are using in this tutorial is the add_meta_boxes action. The add_action function accepts 4 parameters:
tag (required) - The name of the action you wish to hook onto. A list of available actions are here.function_to_add (required) - This is name of your function you want to be used.priority - This determines when your function is called in relation to other functions. The default setting is 10.accepted_args - How many arguments your function takes.
The eirestudio_create_meta_box function is a function we will use to create the meta box by using the add_meta_box action. The add_meta_box action defines the meta box such as the heading, where it will be shown on the page etc. The add_meta_box action accepts 7 parameters:
- id (required) = The CSS id that your meta box will be wrapped in.
- title (required) = The heading of your meta box.
- callback (required) = The function name to be called to actually show the meta box.
- page (required) = What screen will this meta box be shown on. Post, page, custom post type or link.
- context = Which part of the screen will the meta box be shown.
- priority = The priority in which your meta box should be shown. high, core, default or low.
- callback_args = Arguments to pass into your callback function.
Then we simply create the eirestudio_display_meta_box function and pop in some content 
