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By McAleavy Posted on 30th Oct, 2020 Posted in Wordpress Tagged with coding, Gutenberg, Wordpress

After many years of thinking about it, I finally got around to implementing global Hide / Show Nudes toggle on here. It involved messing around with PHP, CSS, Javascript and eventually, jQuery. There was much swearing too. But now it …

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Best. Review. Ever.

Best. Review. Ever.

By McAleavy Posted on 10th Feb, 2020 Posted in Photography, Ramblings, Wordpress Tagged with critiqe

The Man has passed judgement on my work… I can live with that.

Gutenberg

By McAleavy Posted on 27th Aug, 2018 Posted in Ramblings, Wordpress Tagged with coding, Gutenberg, Wordpress

So I took a punt and installed Gutenberg here and set about reformatting the pages and recoding my layout plugin to use blocks. It all seems to work, but it’s a little sparsely documented and still has a few rough …

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Gray Room Workshop
Gray Room Workshop

Gray Room Workshop

By McAleavy Posted on 6th Oct, 2017 Posted in Photography Tagged with Rebecca Wyman, The Gray Room, workshop

So I’m doing a thing in November at The Gray Room in Bridgeton with Rebecca Wyman Modelling. Should be a fun day.

The Gray Room’s 1st Birthday
Gray Room Flyer

The Gray Room’s 1st Birthday

By McAleavy Posted on 3rd Jul, 2017 Posted in Ramblings Tagged with Carnage, Lin, Meg, Shari, studio, The Gray Room

A year ago my friend John Gray opened his studio, The Gray Room, in Bridgeton. On the 29th of July the studio is having an open day. Come along for nibbles, good bants and a studio demo. The images I’ve …

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Animoto

By McAleavy Posted on 23rd Apr, 2017 Posted in Photography Tagged with animoto, light painting, lightpainting, Photography, portfolio

Some Animoto fun with my current work.

Fancybox 3

By McAleavy Posted on 25th Mar, 2017 Posted in Ramblings Tagged with coding, fancybox, Wordpress

For a while now just over half of the visitors to mcaleavy.org have been coming from mobile devices and the image lightbox I was using, Fancybox, wasn’t really mobile friendly. It pops up a little window, and you really don’t …

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WordPress Albatross

By McAleavy Posted on 6th Sep, 2016 Posted in Ramblings, Wordpress Tagged with optimisation, performance, Wordpress

Today’s discovery. If you’ve had WordPress installed and running your website for more years that you care to think about, and have been through a lot of different plugins and themes over the years, your database is probably full of …

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Mayhem
Necromancy - <a href="http://mcaleavy.org/models/mayhem/">Mayhem</a>

Mayhem

By McAleavy Posted on 1st Aug, 2016 Posted in Photography Tagged with light painting, lightpainting, Mayhem

This weekend Mayhem came to pose for me and the results were spectacular. It’s amazing what you can do with a £10 torch, a glow stick, a funny hat and a great model. We’re already planning more shots. You can …

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The Gray Room
Teal - <a href="http://mcaleavy.org/models/meg/">Meg</a>

The Gray Room

By McAleavy Posted on 24th Jun, 2016 Posted in Photography, Ramblings Tagged with Meg, Sarah, studio, The Gray Room

Last week my friend John Gray kindly invited us along for a test shoot at his new studio, The Gray Room, in Bridgeton. So with Meg modelling and Sarah also shooting, we went along for a look. The studio has …

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