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WP Features: Theme or Plugin

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Reading my wpdaily.co updates today and saw this post talking about WordPress theme features. Eric explains the debate: Generally-speaking, the conversations have always circled around features: There are those that believe every feature you could ever imagine should be included like text color, font selector, and more. On the flip-side, there are those that feel [...]

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On Going Responsive (responding to Where to Start)

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I needed to write this up about going responsive in response after reading Where to Start (by Trent Walton of Paravel) about getting started with responsive web design. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Trent, I agree whole heartedly. In my experience it is the same. I wanted to share his post and also add my [...]

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Add Parent Page Slug and Parent Template to WordPress Body Class

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Add CSS body classes for the parent page on all child pages and the parent page template on of a WordPress site with this body_class filter. Ever need to style all child pages of a parent page in the same way or have you wanted to access every child page of a parent page via [...]

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Android App Development Keystore for Beginners

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Getting into some mobile app development for Android and I was unprepared for the keystore file that is required to be included in the apk file. Using PhoneGap Build to compile my app the interface requires a keystore file uploaded. After some digging on google it seems that the most common way to create a [...]

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Set Default Terms for your Custom Taxonomies

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Custom Taxonomy Default Term(s) for when it’s left blank After looking through the WP codex and various plugins, I couldn’t find anywhere to set a custom taxonomy default term. WordPress has allowed us to create custom taxonomies for a while. Before we only had categories and tags hard coded in core. One feature from those days [...]

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A Practical Guide to HTML & CSS – Learn How to Build Websites

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I came across Shay Howe’s website today for the first time and am very impressed with his learn section. He’s created the content for a course (or 2) to learn HTML and CSS. There is a beginner’s guide and then an advanced one is scheduled too. This is great content or curriculum and would be [...]

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Separate HTML and CSS for fast clear & clean code

Another great article from Jonathan Snook reasoning thorugh the benefits of specific css class selectors with some good examples. Really calls to mind his SMACSS principles I've been loving. Embedded Link Decoupling HTML From CSS | Smashing Coding For years, the Web standards community has talked about the separation of concerns. Separate your CSS from [...]

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C64 Game recreated as HTML5 Game

Here's a great interview with the hungarian developer, Kriz, who recreated this old game as closely as he could from scratch. I found it interesting he didn't even try to crack into it and look at the source code. He just watched closely and recreated what he saw. This is the 4th such game he [...]

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Open Sourced Flash Tower Game

Ben Lowry has released all his code for his game InkTd. It is a standard tower style game with a bit of a twist. It gives options for 2 game modes: path mode and another called maze mode with the path being dynamically adjusted to reach the base. Sounds like it deserves porting to html5! [...]

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Icon Fonts Galore

Here's a huge list of icon fonts as well as a great example with code on how to use it. I think the whole icon font is awesome and love that it's scalable and lightweight (at least lighter than loading all those images). Embedded Link Flat Icons & Icon Fonts | CSS-Tricks There are many [...]

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    Presenting at WordCamp Atlanta – Child Themes

    The presentation? Your firstborn child theme. Child themes 101+2. I’m speaking at wordcamp atlanta this afternoon about themes and child themes. I’ll update this post with post-presentation notes. Learn how to mod themes the right way. Using child themes you won’t loose your edits when there’s a theme update. (101) We’ll go over the advantages [...]

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    Hooks, In a Nutshell – WP Daily

    I’ve published another article over on wpdaily.co exploring the concept of hooks. I remember when starting out that people kept mentioning hooks and filters and actions and… it took a while to grasp what they each meant. I think the first time I started to grasp it was when I read the codex and saw [...]

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    Speaker at WordCamp Atlanta 2013

    I’m excited to be speaking at WordCamp Atlanta again this year! The time is quickly approaching for WordCamp Atlanta 2013, March 15-16. I spoke last year and discussed the process of going from Photoshop PSD to WordPress Theme, here are my slides and notes for that WordCamp Presentation. This year I’m speaking along the same [...]

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    WP Features: Theme or Plugin

    Reading my wpdaily.co updates today and saw this post talking about WordPress theme features. Eric explains the debate: Generally-speaking, the conversations have always circled around features: There are those that believe every feature you could ever imagine should be included like text color, font selector, and more. On the flip-side, there are those that feel [...]

    Packery Preview, from Metafizzy & descended from Masonry

    David Desandro / metafizzy, maker of masonry and isotope of which I’m a big fan and user of has been busy with a new project called Packery. Packery, looks to be a child of Masonry. As you would expect it seems to be pushing things much further and addressing a few pain points of masonry. [...]

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    On Going Responsive (responding to Where to Start)

    I needed to write this up about going responsive in response after reading Where to Start (by Trent Walton of Paravel) about getting started with responsive web design. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Trent, I agree whole heartedly. In my experience it is the same. I wanted to share his post and also add my [...]

  • Recent Comments

    Evan Mullins

    Evan Mullins

    The keystore is used for creating valid apps that are associated with the author. It is not...
    Rohan Dave

    Rohan Dave

    I am new in android and have certain question about KeyStore. Is KeyStore used in user...
    arpit

    arpit

    very useful thank you …..
    Duan

    Duan

    @ugh You’re joking, right? I do some basics in Flash, but come on – all you do is...
    Cátia Vala

    Cátia Vala

    Thank you so much Evan! That’s great! Keep going with your amazing work. :)
    zproxy

    zproxy

    thanks :) i bet its faster to google and find some ad hoc documentation than the other way.