I’m Rick Curran, based in Dundee, Scotland.
I’m a WordPress specialist web developer with 30+ years experience across design, digital media, web development, education, and technical support. I have extensive experience building with WordPress since 2010, spanning front-end and back-end development, custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce, accessibility auditing, web hosting, infrastructure, maintenance and support.
My background has spanned graphic design, fine art, video production, and web design and development. I am currently working as a freelance web development consultant, previously I was the founder of a small communication design company called [wideopenspace] and have worked in higher education.
I am married to Annie and have three children, Natalie, Gabriella and Timothy. Outside of work, I’m passionate about skateboarding, snowboarding, and mountain biking, and I also run a t-shirt brand side-project called Life-Sized Clothing.
For more about me, read my About page.
Recent posts…
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Nokia? They’re still around?
I found this series of videos looking at where Nokia’s business is at today quite interesting. I was a big fan of Nokia’s phones prior to smartphones being a thing, (see “Nokia” related posts elsewhere in this site), the Nokia N95 and the NGage being two of my favourite devices. One thing that didn’t get…
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Two days in Kraków – a trip to WordCamp Europe 2026
I have been working with WordPress since around 2010 and since that time I have almost exclusively used it as the underlying basis for various web projects I’ve developed for myself and clients. From design festival websites, to a skatepark directory, to an online learning toolkit, I’ve used it for various projects both large and…
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Replacing an obsolete Brivo door access system: Ubiquiti’s UniFi Access Retrofit Hub 2
Due to Brivo making some of its door access hardware obsolete, I found a more cost-effective alternative using Ubiquiti’s UniFi Access Retrofit Hub 2.
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ChatGPT Wrapped
I thought it might be good to have a “wrapped” style tool to help us see how our usage of ChatGPT measures up. So here is “ChatGPT Wrapped”
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iPhone view of 2025
Here is my annual “iPhone view” video for 2025. All images were either taken directly with my iPhone, screenshot or copied onto it in 2025.
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Open/Close iOS app – now FREE
I released an update to the Open/Close iOS app to give it compatibility with the new iOS 26 and also to make it FREE.
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iPhone view of 2024
Here is my annual “iPhone view” video for 2024. All images were either taken directly with my iPhone, screenshot or copied onto it in 2024.
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The Nokia Design Archive
The Nokia Design Archive is a digital portal covering over 20 years of Nokia’s digital design history that has been pulled together and launched in January 2025 by Aalto University in Finland.
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The fourth quarter
When I was at art college one of my classmates did a film project where he got two of us to eat a whole chocolate cake each…