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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I love how math creeps into design, programming and other problem solving. I had some fun playing with Keith’s code (as usual). I’m always impressed with how he’ll see a problem and eventually at least figure out how to solve it using math/trig/physics. It’s a breath of fresh air and it almost makes me wish [...]
Add the viewport meta tag with a WordPress hook via your theme’s functions file to allow responsive web design and mobile-friendly themes With all the responsive web design activity over the past few years, I hope that any theme or site we work on we’re able to make responsive to some extent. An important part [...]
I’ve guest authored a post on wpdaily.co: 3 Plugins that Improved My Workflow in 2012. The post describes the 3 plugins that I used during the past year which transformed my workflow (in good ways). They are BackupBuddy, Gravity Forms and Advanced Custom Fields. Have any comments? Favorite Plugins? Please, jump over to the post [...]
Programming seems to have a gulf dividing the playful and the useful. The random and scripted. The fun and the business. KrazyDad writes the book review and calls for a concerted effort to close this gap. The pleasurable and “recreational programming” mindset seems to be giving way to OOP and other acronyms that do little [...]
I agree with this idea from Ryan that the web has big advantages. I am constantly hearing stats and projections that Mobile is taking over. And sure, I agree that I use my phone to browse more sites, but when it comes down to it I’m just casually browsing – not working. I love the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
I'm Evan Mullins. I'm a web designer and am very interested in the intersection of art & technology, user experience, and interactive design. I like contributing to make the web incrementally a better place. I love simultaneously solving problems & making things aesthetically brilliant. circlecube is my interactive design site chock full of tutorials, critiques, techniques, technologies, ramblings and a playground of experiments. Welcome to it!
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