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Web Design tips and tricks. A combination of WordPress, CSS, and javascript tricks I use. I mostly use this as a public repository of the things I use so that I don’t have to Google them every time I want to do something again.
YouTube videos at the speed of podcasts. I often watch tutorials on YouTube, but I’m also impatient. To save time I like to watch them at 2x speed – as … Continue Reading YouTube Playback Speed Chrome Extension
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 … Continue Reading WordPress: The Difference Between is_home and is_front_page
I have a couple of sites powered by Jekyll on Github pages, and I use Cloudflare to help make them nice and speedy (and to get around the github pages … Continue Reading Using Git Hooks to Clear Cloudflares Cache
WordPress 4.8 has just been released and, whilst not a ground breaking update, it includes some nice features that make WordPress more pleasant to use. One of the main areas … Continue Reading Fixing Theme Issues with WordPress 4.8 Media Widgets
Typography on websites is hard – especially if that site is powered by a CMS such as WordPress. Making the text on a site look good when the screen size, … Continue Reading Fixing Typographic Widows in WordPress
I’m a big fan of the Jetpack WordPress plugin. I support it in all of my WordPress themes, and have even contributed to its development. However it’s not perfect, and … Continue Reading WordPress Jetpack Admin Backup: For When There are Problems
I recently switched Binary Moon over to using secure domains. This was quite easy using Cloudflare, however one of the things that didn’t work was making Photon work with https. … Continue Reading Jetpack Photon on Secure Domains (HTTPS)
In WordPress there’s an option to add custom descriptions to Menu links – but by default there’s no way to display these descriptions. I’m currently redesigning Binary Moon and wanted … Continue Reading Adding Menu Descriptions to WordPress Menus
These days a lot of spammers submit spam comments that are perfectly legitimate apart from the fact that they link somewhere. So I thought I would disable the website url … Continue Reading Disabling Website URLs in WordPress Comments
As a WordPress theme author I have to set up demo sites for my themes. I tend to set up the site – and then leave it to sit there. … Continue Reading Disabling Comments on a WordPress Demo Site