WP DB backup

Published February 2nd, 2010 under Plugins

Time and time again I come across WordPress users who have either accidentally broken their website, their server has crashed/hard drive corrupted or they’ve been hacked. Without a clean, recent back of your database you may have trouble getting your site back online along with […]

PixoPoint Theme Integrator: alpha launch

Published January 27th, 2010 under Plugins

We are pleased to announce the Alpha launch of a new WordPress plugin which helps you integrate your WordPress theme with other gallery, forum, wiki or CMS softwares. It is called the “PixoPoint Theme Integrator” and you can see it in action in our support […]

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WordPress Resources

Published January 22nd, 2010 under General

We often receive requests for information on where to learn more about WordPress theme and plugin development. Unfortunately, the official resource site WordPress.org is not a good place to go for information beyond the extreme basics of WordPress or encyclopaedic type information about various hooks […]

PixoPoint Menu plugin

Animating your dropdown menu

Published January 11th, 2010 under General

In our IE Hovers post we outlined how the Superfish jQuery plugin can be used to create a smooth flowing animated effect for your dropdown menu. However the Superfish script is reasonably large and many people don’t require the various options which are available with […]

PixoPoint SMF Widget

PixoPoint SMF Widget

Published January 2nd, 2010 under Plugins

We have received a few requests for information about how we have added our latest forum topics to our sidebar here on PixoPoint.com. The answer, is that it is a custom coded WordPress widget. We weren’t intending this for public release, so it is not […]

Help!

Free support for menus

Published December 30th, 2009 under Plugins

Since the inception of PixoPoint.com, we have been providing free support in our support forum for our menu plugins and CSS generator. Later, we began offering our Premium Support service, which gives much faster response times and we are happy to answer even very complex […]

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What the heck are Superfish and Suckerfish?

Published December 15th, 2009 under General

Many people get confused when working with our WordPress menu plugins and CSS generator as to what exactly “Suckerfish” is and what the difference is between it and “Superfish“. Most of you will never need to understand the difference, but for those of you keen to dive […]

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:hover pseudo class and evil IE!

Published December 10th, 2009 under General

There seems to be some confusion amongst the users of our site about exactly why our WordPress menu plugins include javascript files, yet work fine without it, so here is an explanation. If none of this makes sense to you and you are using one […]

Bart Simpson uses the PixoPoint menu plugin

Published November 24th, 2009 under Plugins

Marty Kassowitz of Interest Factory contacted us requesting assistance in creating a new menu for the official website of Emmy Award-winner Nancy Cartwright. Nancy is best known as the voice of yellow coloured spikey haired underachiever Bart Simpson, but also gives voice to Nelson Muntz, […]

Tung Do (aka Small Potato)

Small Potato redesign

Published November 2nd, 2009 under General

Some you may have noticed the drastically different look we have around here. This has been thanks to the brilliant work of Tung do (aka Small Potato). Tung has recently come back from an extended break from web design and offered to redesign PixoPoint.com. We […]