Friday, July 30, 2010
 

Spitting at Spit or Swallow

While recovering from some wine time at the newly revamped Stellenbosch Wine Festival, I slapped open my laptop to find an email written by a certain “Johan Coetzee” (johancoetzee111@gmail.com) to the CEO of Stellenbosch Wine Routes: Read the rest of this entry »

 

Amarula Ball Sack

Every now and then PR companies and wineries deliver “samples” to 406 HQ. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Groot kak at Constantia

On Friday the Madame and myself ventured out to the Constantia wine route with the relativity new Cape Point Vineyards as our final destination. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Tasting At Harolds Wine Bar

Situated on Sea Point Main road, Harold’s Wine Bar is a welcome addiction to this buzzing street. Once the play-ground of prostitutes and drug dealers this transport vain into the heart of Sea Point has gone through a serious face lift over the last couple of years. Contributing to this makeover is Harold’s Wine Bar. Read the rest of this entry »

 

winetimes

winetimes – South Africas first wine news aggregator. Users can submit links to be considered for aggregation by using the http://wyn.cc link shortener.

 

grapefuel

Online wine shop.

 

Tasting at the Westin Grand

After much consideration and contemplation the White Sticks Sips decided to take our blind tasting endeavours on a road show. Read the rest of this entry »

 

A nice surprise

Normally when an unknown person knocks at our door asking for me, I try to hide, cause it’s normally a traffic fine summons. Last week I received a nice surprise when a parcel got delivered to my door. Read the rest of this entry »

 

Check if current page is a subpage of another page

The follow function will return true if the current wordpress page is a sub page of a specific page.


function is_tree($pid) {
global $post;
if(is_page()&&($post->post_parent==$pid||is_page($pid)||in_array($pid, $post->ancestors)))
return true;
else
return false;
};

 

Get the post id outside the loop

Small wpx function to retrieve a wordpress post id, outside the loop. Copy the following code to your functions.php file.
function wpx_postID(){
global $wp_query;
return $wp_query->post->ID;
}

You can now retrieve the ID by calling wpx_postID()