How to Password Protect Downloads with WordPress

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How to Password Protect Downloads with WordPressDownloadable items including e-books, how-to guides, checklist, or even training videos serve a key role in almost all websites. You can sell digital products directly on WordPress or offer these files as free giveaways to engage visitors and increase your email subscriber list. Due to the rise of digital piracy, it’s necessary to pay more […]

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Special Cases Are a Code Smell

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LA Parking Sign

A Warning Sign

Los Angeles is famous for its complicated parking signs:

They're totems of rules and exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions. Often, when we code, we forget a lesson that’s obvious in these preposterous signs: Humans understand simple, consistent rules, but fail on special cases.

A Trivial Example

Say you’re given an array of integers, and you want to calculate the sum of each element’s neighbors. Try it:

#251: Marketing

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Show Description

It's January, and that means Chris and Marie are thinking about marketing (again). In this episode we talk about the challenges of marketing and user education for a complex app like CodePen.

Time Jumps

  • 00:27 Intro to the topic
  • 03:41 What don't people know about CodePen?
  • 15:27 Sponsor: Jetpack
  • 17:43 Social media sharing
  • 20:39 Asset Manager
  • 28:30 Why this happens every January?

Sponsor

Jetpack

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CodePen Links

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What Is “Headless” WordPress?

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There are plenty of reasons why WordPress is the most popular CMS on the planet. Chief among them are its general ease-of-use and flexibility. Both of these attributes are keys to the rise of the “headless” WordPress trend. That is, …