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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.
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 … Continue Reading WordPress – Estimated Reading Time
I’ve made quite a few WordPress themes in my time, and so I thought I would write a few blog posts sharing some of the code snippets that I find … Continue Reading WordPress Numeric Pagination
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 … Continue Reading How to Make SlideShare Responsive With FitVid.js
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 – … Continue Reading Using WP_DEBUG to Improve CSS and Style Enqueues in WordPress
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 … Continue Reading WordPress Query: Exclude Posts With No Featured Image
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. … Continue Reading Automatic WordPress Updates on Nearlyfreespeech.net With ManageWP
I’m not that knowledgable about the command line and controlling a server with it. Over the years I have picked up a few bits – I use nano a lot … Continue Reading Better Than Grep
A quick tip for any WordPress devs out there (or any other devs for that matter). Don’t use PHP short tags! I’ve been bitten by this more than once in … Continue Reading Disable PHP Short tags
When I design a website I really like to add small touches that most people won’t notice. In fact there’s a blog I follow that is dedicated to these small … Continue Reading CSS Highlight Colour