Category: Tips
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.
WordPress Improved Human Time Difference
WordPress has a built in function, called human_time_diff, for creating messages that say how long ago a post was published – however I think it is confusing when you have …
Note to Self: Using SVN Diff
At WordCamp London last week I made my first contribution to WordPress – a bug fix for the Twenty Fourteen theme that’s being released with WordPress 3.8. Part of doing …
WordPress – Estimated Reading Time
I have a theme coming out soon that displays the ‘estimated reading time’ for each blog post on the homepage. The theme is inspired by the new blogging service Medium …
WordPress Numeric Pagination
How to Make SlideShare Responsive With FitVid.js
Open Source software is awesome. If it weren’t for WordPress then I’m not sure what I would be doing – but that doesn’t mean open source software is perfect, or …
Using WP_DEBUG to Improve CSS and Style Enqueues in WordPress
Recently I saw a tweet conversation between @Norcross and @JPeterson about decaching css files when developing with WordPress. The solution is simple and something that WordPress even has built-in – …
WordPress Query: Exclude Posts With No Featured Image
So – I make WordPress themes – lots of them 🙂 Something that’s bugged me for a while is that I can’t easily use the WP_Query to select posts with …
Automatic WordPress Updates on Nearlyfreespeech.net With ManageWP
My main websites (Binary Moon, and Pro Theme Design) are hosted with Liquidweb on a VPS, but I have many smaller sites and I like to run them on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. …