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21 Oct 2018

Contributing to WordPress

In this article for WPTavern Chris Van Patten shares his experience with contributing to the Gutenberg project. The original article was a Twitter thread, but it’s nicer reading a proper long form piece.For Chris, the experience of contributing to Gutenberg...
19 Oct 2018

Smashing Book 6 Review: New Frontiers In Web Design

I really like the Smashing Magazine website. Unlike a lot of tutorial sites they don’t keep repeating the same basic content and focus on more challenging and newer things. So when I was contacted by Vitaly and asked if I...
28 Sep 2018

Gutenberg Cloud – the Ultimate Open Source Project?

Gutenberg Cloud is a project for creating open source Gutenberg Blocks that work with both Drupal and WordPress that is created by web agency Frontkom.The team at Frontkom made a version of Gutenberg that works with Drupal. Since Gutenberg is...
26 Sep 2018

WordPress get_post_gallery() Gutenberg Polyfill

I’m working on a new WordPress theme designed for Gutenberg, however Gutenberg isn’t finished, and there are elements that won’t work until the plugin is merged with core.One such issue, that I ran into this weekend, is that get_post_gallery() doesn’t...
21 Sep 2018

Patreon. The Future of Blog Monetisation?

Patreon is a really interesting platform that helps creators earn money. I recently read an article about how a French tutor increased revenues by using the Patreon WordPress plugin.I’d heard of Patreon before, and had even considered using it, but...
14 Sep 2018

What’s the Deal with Google AMP?

I recently read an article title Google AMP Can Go To Hell, all about how Google AMP is an attempt by Google to control the internet entirely.When I first saw this article I thought it was going to be a...
07 Sep 2018

Finding the Essence of a Product

I was recently reading the article Via Negativa by Adrian Zumbrunnen and found it a really nice reflection on the reasons for creating a simple product.Minimalism in web design is an evergreen trend but how many of us have actually...
31 Aug 2018

Chrome for Android may start disabling JavaScript on 2G connections

This week a pull request was made on the Chromium project that, in certain situations, blocks Javascript from loading on 2G connections.Currently the Gutenberg editor doesn’t work without Javascript; it doesn’t even have a noscript tag.Chrome for Android may start...
24 Aug 2018

Using Gutenberg in Real World Projects

Gutenberg is slowly marching towards a releasable version but has anyone tested it on a real world project? There have been a few announced but nothing significant (that I’ve seen). I’ve integrated it into a couple of themes, and mostly...
17 Aug 2018

Mythic WordPress Starter Theme, and Thinking About All Developers

Mythic is a new starter theme by Justin Tadlock (with help from his friends/ collaborators). The project is designed to introduce a fully modern theme development process.It follows best practices for coding, and makes use of things like npm (or...
10 Aug 2018

Gutenberg Reactions: Mixed Feedback?

WordPress 4.9.8 was released last week and Gutenberg plugin installations have rocketed because of the ‘try Gutenberg’ prompt that was included. This post on WPCouple shows some of the fantastic positive reactions Gutenberg has received.Of course, it’s not all rosey....
03 Aug 2018

What Non-Disabled People Get Wrong About Accessibility

I have thought quite a lot about accessibility in recent years. I am definitely not an expert, and I am sure there’s a lot of areas I could improve, but I always strive to make my projects as accessible as...
30 Jul 2018

Learning ReactJS for Designers

JavaScript is simple, or at least it used to be. If you’ve done any programming, and you know how to use Google then you can program in JavaScript. Of course, to make it more powerful we have to complicate things.We...
20 Jul 2018

GutenReady for the Gutenpocalypse – Educating Gutenberg

It was WPCampus last weekend, an education focused WordPress conference. There’s a lot of talks about using WordPress in Universities and other educational establishments – but there’s also a lot of more traditional WordCamp subjects.One presentation in particular caught my...
13 Jul 2018

HTTPS is Easy

Now you have no reason not to make your website(s) secure!Troy Hunt is Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security. Online security, technology and “The Cloud”. And he made have I been pwned, an online database/API allowing you to...
25 Jun 2018

Brush Ninja

4 years ago I uploaded a video of an animation creator website I was building called Brush Ninja. Then mostly forgot about it. A video of the original version of Brush Ninja from over 4 years ago. The project was...
13 Mar 2018

WordPress: The Difference Between is_home and is_front_page

When making WordPress themes there’s 2 functions that are really handy. is_home and is_front_page. I use them all the time in both themes and plugins. But I can never remember the difference between them.is_home vs is_front_pageOn the surface they are...
01 Mar 2018

Website Colour Analyzer

In January I published Colour, a simple app that analyses the colours used in a website and suggests ways you can merge the colour to make the design simpler.I don’t know if it’s an age thing, or a generational thing,...
09 Feb 2018

Getting Started With Github Desktop

When I wrote about using Github for Copywriters I wanted to keep things simple so that my copywriter friend could edit website content easily without having to worry about using Github properly. The problem is he now wants to create...

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