For a decade I’ve been building WordPress websites, as both a freelancer and at a digital marketing agency. In that time I had built nearly 200 custom WordPress themes and plugins for just as many sites. I had worked alone (on a small team of marketers, but never with other developers). I was self taught, […]
This is not a list of “the top 5 workflows for Alfred” this is instead tips and tricks to become a better Alfred user. It’s easy to setup Alfred and get some really cool workflows going, but it’s just as easy to forget about Alfred and it’s potential in a week or two. However, as […]
“Kaizen” is a Japanese term that captures the concept of continuously making many small improvements.
Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
💪 Just launched my new theme for this website for 2019! I’m really enjoying the larger textography, having a main blog feed instead of separating everything, and the increased minimalism compared to my last theme (code has been simplified and is hundreds of lines shorter, which is always nice). A few spots need some tweaks, so bare with any random errors you see, I’m on it!
🤯 Well look’y there, CSS could soon have detection of dark mode!
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { }
🐭 took about one week, but I’m finally used to using the Apple Magic TrackPad 2.
🔇 Noise cancelling headphones must of been invented by a parent.
I need to think about something – right now in CAD I pay:
That’s $335.76/year. Almost a $0.92/day a day for media consumption.
Amazon Prime:
is $79.00/year, or $0.22/day.
Why aren’t I an Amazon Prime guy yet?
The beautiful function wp_localize_script() was built for l11n, however its found as a method for carrying over server-side values into client-side JS. Your values are now available in your .js file: Currently using this in a React theme I’m building for WordPress. This can also be done with something like:
I’ve just started developing a site using WPRig.io, it’s pretty neat – and it’s really a terrific starter theme that allows modern tooling. It saves a lot of the time with small annoying tasks that typically come with starter-theme development.
The Good:
The Bad
wprig_add_body_style(), registering, and printing stylesheets. Currently you need to add a stylesheet in three different locations to load it properlyThe Ugly
I’ve just started using it, so perhaps I’m being to quick to criticize, so take that with a grain of salt. I will probably submit a pull request for the things I find to help the project grow.
So, if everything continues goes well, I’m considering condensing my starter theme into components for wp-rig’s /dev/pluggable/ folder, and re-creating my personal starter theme with this logic. These will basically serve as helper functions that I expect and need.
Common practices for sticking elements weren’t working for me: position: sticky and stickybits. I didn’t want to use jQuery either, normally I’d reach to use waypoints.inview. So I wrote my own in vanilla Javascript. The nice part is it was much easier to do a sticky bottom. Scroll to element, bottom of viewport hits bottom of […]