Who I’ve Helped
I often provide free help or code for people, to help them with whatever project they may be doing. Although most of them thank me in the related support forum or via private / instant messages, I’ve always thought it would be good to have them all in one place.
Please Comment
As you’ve arrived here, chances are it’s because you’ve followed a link I provided. All I ask is that you take the time (like I did to help you), to post a comment below. Perhaps also include how I helped you.
Donation
Occasionally, some like to show their gratitude via a donation, so I provide the link below as a courtesy to them. I don’t ask for, or expect, a donation if I’ve helped someone, but it’s always nice to receive something for my time that I can put towards my own wishlists.
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Thanks so much for the help on the thin grey line. Really appreciate your time!
Hey Gary,
Thank you for the tip on getting my thumbnails to appear properly on my site. Definitely a big improvement on the overall layout.
Cheers!
Hi Gary, Thanks so much for your forum help with my Thesis Bylines problem.
As you know, the way I described my problem there was: I can’t get my Byline to obey. I want to show my name and the date. I had set it up to do that in Thesis Options, but there was no joy.
The best the first person that tried to help me offered was that the problem had nothing to do with Thesis, as Thesis was obeying my wishes by looking in all the right places but not finding my username available. They indicated that if all was well, Thesis would probably show my name anyway.
By the time I got to you with the problem I was about ready throw up my hands up and maybe my lunch, too. I was just about ready to uninstall the whole shebang—that may be a technical term some are not familiar with—and start over from a fresh beginning.
Bless your heart, laddie, despite the fact that you are too old to have any pimples left and, therefore, not qualified by age to know a lot about computers and software, you immediately cut incisively to the heart of the matter of my Bylines problem.
Assuming I had, in fact, already made the choices in Thesis Options > Bylines in setting it up as I wanted, you had me go to Thesis Options > Users > Username, select the username displayed or click ‘Edit’ under it, both of which would bring up the WordPress User Profile page. There I was to make sure First name, Last name, and Nickname slots were filled in as desired. Then I was to click the down-arrow next to ‘Display name publicly’ and select the name I wanted to display.
All that was far easier done than to explained. I did everything as you instructed and, voila, success!
I am no longer concerned with keeping my lunch down and I can again enjoy the beauty of the roses and the delightfully delicate, lush, sweet fragrance of their flowers.
You’re a rare gem of a technician and an all around class guy, Gary. Thanks for the help.
Say a hearty hello for me to my ancestors back there in the holy land of dear ole England and the rest of the United Kingdom.
Thank you Lawrence – your essay is heartwarming
I sent you a personal message before finding this thread. Just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate your help with the Thesis Theme. You certainly have many other things to do… but I must say you’ve helped me improve my blog a lot! Thank you! -Kelly
Thank you so much for helping me with my nav bar customizations! You’re replies were always quick and you definitely know what you’re talking about. Thanks a lot for your time, really appreciate it. All the best,
Renee
Hello Gary,
I’d like to say thank you once again for your time and help. I’m pretty new to Thesis as I am to WP and css. You are the kind of person that makes beginners want to learn more and more.
I wish you all happiness and joy with your wedding (I’m getting married in July 09). (Nice hotel btw…)
Thanks, and good luck with your wedding Alexander – not long to go!
Hi Gary,
I want to thank you for the help that you have given me too.
Blessings to you…
Thanks for your help with my CSS Gary. You really outdid yourself, I couldnt find the solution for the life of me, I had tried many different options only for Gary to show me how to check the code before to make sure the website is even reading the CSS attributes because it was already broken by a previous typo.
Thanks for the assistance, I think I have come away with a solution to several of my problems, and some knowlege to go forward.
Cheers.
Gary, thanks for the help on my alt-tag / avatar issue for our corporate blog. You’ve offered comments on some of my other Thesis related learning curve issues, as well. Always appreciated!
James
Thanks for your help in the Thesis forums! One of the hardest parts of blogging can be the technical side, actually getting your site to look how you want it too. It can be frustrating and time consuming.
This is where people like you, who take the time to help us out can really save the day.
Thanks Gary!
Thanks so much for taking out the time to help me in my Thesis customisations….they’ve helped me far far more than I can say.
I wish I could draw a specific instance when you’ve helped but it’s been quite a few times really so it’s almost embarassing now….
Thanks for taking out the time to help blokes like me…it helps me get from A-Z and not lose bits of sanity in the process.
Poor Gary – he started out to answer a question I had about spacing on the thesis theme. I ended up hiring him to do some updates for me of both wp and thesis and it took him hours. We’d agreed on a very reasonable flat fee and he might have made a penny an hour… not much more.
He went several extra miles creating short codes for me and sorting out some other issues and even trying to help my host with thumbnails on Thesis… and when that didn’t work has approached the Thesis folks so they can make the change to match my host.
I can’t speak highly enough of him.
I now consider him part of my virtual staff.
Anne Wayman, blogging at http://www.aboutfreelancewriting.com
Thanks mate. I appreciate the help!
Thanks so much, Gary, for the help and suggestions you’ve made recently. You seem to have a lot of tricks up your sleeve, and they are very valuable to me. I’m a pretty laid-back person and any help I can get is gratefully accepted!
Hi Gary,
Thank you so much for the excellent work that you and Mike Nichols together provided me to customize my navigation menu using WordPress + Thesis. Your advice and codes were spot on! No doubt, I will be in touch with you in the future for more help. Keep up the good work!
By the way, I see that you have spent 9 months in Malaysia. I am originally from India and I live permanently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Right now, I am in the US and I have been here for the last two years. However, my stay in the US is coming to an end, and I will be leaving this coming Sunday, June 28, 2009 for home. If you are ever in that part of the world, do give me a call.
We loved Malaysia, and would definitely want to go back in the future – still so much to explore in that part of the world. India is also on my list of to visit places too.
Thanks for helping me with the my CSS Drop Down Nav. I stared at the code for a week trying to figure out why my rollovers extended to the right in Firefox. Of course you gave me the answer within an hour. I would never be able to build halfway decent websites (or want to) without guys like you there to help.
URL will be http://bnriverkeeper.org once site goes live in a week or two.
Thanks again Gary!
Dan
Hi Gary,
Thank you for helping me with the padding on my site!
It was a very easy fix once you told me what to do
Thank you again,
Christina
P.S. You should consider adding comment luv to this site
As always, a HUGE help. Thanks.
Gary, I’m extremely happy you took the time to chime on the Thesis forum. I had been struggling big time until you came to the rescue and clean up the code someone else had given me. Thank you very much, if you’re ever in Miami, FL. USA, let me know you earn a free dental cleaning
and a beer.
Not a problem – if I could have teeth as white as half of the CSI show (the alive half), then it’d be worth the trip
Gary:
Two things…I got a copy of your response to Chris..not my site…is that the way it is supposed to happen…and:
you have a great eye…take a look at road2ruin.org and longrun pictures(tabbed) and if you have a moment let me know what you think…also…where is that twitter hookup from…looks great on your site
Thanks
Hi Michael,
Not sure what you mean – maybe you’re subscribed to a post on his site where I commented? If so, then yes – Subscribe to Comments is a WordPress Plugin that emails through any subsequent comments to posts you’ve commented on.
The Twitter image was “borrowed” from someone else who was trying to set up exactly the same thing – I gave them the code to do it, so I thought it only fair I copy it and use it myself too
Gary:
I replied to his check my site out forum thread…I was curious as to how/why i was notified when you replied.
As for the twitter and the comment ‘widgets’ ( I am sure that they are not widgets) I really like your comment structure…how does one go about incorporating it…I am not sure of the ethics here and besides I know so little that “borrowing” it is beyond my capability. i would love to use it though…it is smart and simple and clean.
Thanks for your response and all the best.
Gary,
Thank you very much for the help at Thesis site.
Best Regards,
gm
Thanks for the input on my new website. The additions you suggested have worked out well. Thanks for taking time out of your day to help me.
Thanks for quick help over on the Thesis site!
Gary,
The same day I contacted gary he was on the case. Very fast, expedient service.
Thank you.
Hi Gary,
Just wanted to thank you for all of your help. I really really appreciate you taking the time to be of help to so many people, it’s truly appreciated.
Victoria
Gary, thanks so much for your frequent help and guidance. You were able to open my eyes to a host of new ways of doings things, and I am thankful for that too. If I didn’t stumble across this page by chance I’d have had no idea that I could help you in return – even if it’s orders of magnitude less than you did for me.
Cheers
Zak
Thanks……..again!
I consider myself an “intermediate” coder, but you totally saved the day for me! The removing of author bios on certain posts was driving me nutty, but you managed to give me the correct code. Thank you SO much! People like you allow me to keep running the blog instead of staring at code I don’t understand.
Cheers!
Thanks, Gary, for taking the time to looking at my Thesis problem with Italicized headings on IE*. The fact that you were able to duplicate the problem helped.
Hi Gary,
Thanks so much for your help with migrating my Wordpress blog. This isn’t the first time I’ve benefited from the feedback you give on the DIYthemes forum, and I’m sure it won’t be the last – you do a fantastic job of explaining things in terms that everyone can understand.
Gary,
Thanks for going over the custom_functions.php to find the error that was driving us crazy! We were considering switching themes, but because of you, we’re sticking with Thesis. You rock!
Emily
Gary,
I deeply appreciate your taking the time to help improve my multilevel dropdown menu system. Not only is your solution more efficient, but it removes the necessity of using header scripts in Thesis Options — something a lot of people get hung up on.
I will incorporate your solution into my tutorial and zip file as soon as possible!
Mike
Gary helped me when others either could not or would not take the time and I am FOREVER grateful.
He helped me get descriptions from my taxonomies to appear to viewers of my site.
Gary,
Thank you for your assistance with my issue. Your solution fixed my problem! Thank you very much!
What can I say? Thank you Gary showing me that I had saved custom.css to somewhere or other but not to where I thought, and from there had uploaded the wrong file.
Many thanks
David at Quillcards
Gary helped me today by sending me code to fix the margins of my page which were affected by code I added while inserting a background image to my site. He has helped me several times before (very patiently) and I so appreciate it!
Thanks Gary!
Gary,
You saved me a ton of time by showing me how to remove the whitespace above the header. I spent hours searching through Google and couldn’t find a solution, but once I heard from you, I was able to fix the problem within a few minutes.
Thanks again.
I really appreciate your knowledge, generosity, and patience. I had a really frustrating problem with the Thesis WordPress Theme and you jumped in and spent at least an hour instant messaging with me until we figured out what needed to be done. Thanks very much!
I have been stumbling around in the dark for years trying to work things out on my own. I have hired developers in the past to help me out with my websites only to be disappointed and taken advantage of. When I was referred to Gary for some CSS and PHP work I noticed instantly that this guy knows what he is doing beyond comprehension. He blew me away with some dramatic changes he made on my website within minutes of my first communication with him. Gary is based in the UK and I’m in the USA but with using Skype to communicate I have managed to keep Gary up till 1-2am on his clock working on my site a few times with no complaints. I’m excited to be working on a new project with him currently and I have full confidence he can exceed my expectations. Thanks Gary, you’re on my team from now on.
Brett Dalbeth
LagunaAgent.com
Hi Gary,
Thanks for your help with the filter function for stripping paratags in the output of a WordPress templet function . Your solution fixed my problem!
/Andreas
Thanks Gary for your help re not displaying correctly in IE… It works but there is still a positioning shift in IE ( ie menu is more left. Is there a IEhack that would fix this?
Well – as of now – there’s 47 other comments all saying the same thing…
But I feel a need to chime in and say that Gary is simply the best. No questions about it.
Gary took the time to talk to me and explain things to me and when I finally had work for him to do he did it lightening quick.
You’d be absolutely CRAZY not to use Gary.
Thanks again!
Zach
Gary,
Thanks for the tip to create a “Who I have helped” page. I read it in a post over in the Thesis forums.
I am glad I found you and your website. Keep up the good work.
Cheers!
-Adam
I often use a support forum Gary frequents. He is not only knowledgeable, but his answers are to the point and easy to understand. When I search threads for answers to my questions, if I find one that Gary has answered in, it usually means I do not have to post my own question on the same topic. One thing I like about style is that he will answer even if it is obvious your mistake is so basic you really should have noticed it in the first place. When I do have to post my own question, I usually find myself hoping he will be the one to respond. You can’t go wrong with his advice.
Thanks Gary!
Thank you Will, that’s a very generous comment
Gary, I have used your suggestion re creating pages and navigation menu and it worked for me. Your kindness is much appreciated. thank you!
Thanks for the help!
I’m trying to build a website with Thesis. When I run into problems, I try and get help on the forum. I had a weird problem with the color of my site showing up in Internet Explorer only.
Thanks Gary for your help!!!
As a newbie to the website, WP, Thesis community Gary accepted my starter questions with friendly and helpful answers. They have easily been confidence building and encouraging my further progress. Thank you so much and for communicating like a friend.
Lucky life,
Joan
Gary – Thanks so much for helping me with my footer widget code and alignment issue. I was having problems initially with my widgets not working properly, and the PHP snippet you offered corrected the problem. Also, thanks for the great suggestions on positioning the widgets… I really appreciate your help!
All the best,
Chris