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WordPress plugins are great. Not only that, they are basically a necessity for any website, offering tons of features and functionalities to your website you would not have otherwise. What you may not be aware of, however, is that presently there are over 55,000 WordPress plugins for you to choose from. How’s that for overwhelming?! […]
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I think we all have an intuitive understanding that, at the beginning of projects that require our creativity (be it design or code), things feel uncertain and messy. Then, as we go, things tend to straighten out. There is still some wiggling and setbacks, but by the end, we find a single solution and ship it.
Apparently this feeling has a logo: The Design Squiggle
It comes from Damien Newman who says that a client gave him 30 seconds to sell them on the value of design, and this did the trick.
I find it a little funny to take this little concept and give it such a grandiose presentation. A dedicated website! A story with a boatload of name dropping! Very specific attribution instructions! But hey, I don't have any famous doodles, and I gotta admit, this does a great job of expressing a complex thing quite quickly.
Reminds me of a boss a buddy of mine had who claims to have invented the Curiously Strong motto for Altoids, and didn't mind telling people about it.
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WordPress is a tool that was initially used by bloggers, but over the years, it has become a very popular website builder and is used by many website owners and companies. It has proven itself to be an excellent content managing platform. Its popularity is attributed to the ease with which it can be used […]
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Downloadable 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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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.Say you’re given an array of integers, and you want to calculate the sum of each element’s neighbors. Try it:
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.
Jetpack is full of features. If you have had the feeling that you're paying for more than you need, you're in luck, Jetpack is starting to have features you can buy individually. Jetpack Backup is one of them, the best way to backup a WordPress site there is. If that's the only paid feature you need, you got it. Just $3 a month for daily backups or $20 a month for realtime backups.
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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, …
As a part of ProgrammableWeb's ongoing series of on-demand re-broadcasts of presentations that were given at the monthly Washington, DC-Area API meetup (anyone can attend), this article offers a recording and full transcript of the Oct 1, 2019 discussion given by Epigen Senior Information Security Architect Trevor Bryant regarding his attempt to bone-up on API
There is no getting around the fact that in this exceedingly digitally inclined era, the presence of the online landscape that is the worldwide web is becoming more and more central to the way that we live our lives in this modern world. Considering this, it should come as no surprise that websites are becoming […]
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Tomasz Łakomy posted a joke tweet about naming all the CSS attributes and Tejas Kumar replied with a joke answer, going as far as making an npm module. You can even run a terminal command to see them:
npx get-all-css-propertiesYou'll get 259 of them. The source code uses the website quackit.com for the data, which I'd never heard of. 🤷♂️
I would have probably looked at MDN, where some quick querySelectorAll handiwork in the console yields a different number: 584. But ooops, that's full of selectors, at-rules, and other stuff. Their reference only lists 72, but says it's incomplete.
W3Schools lists 228 of them. HTML Dog lists 125. Our almanac has 176, and I know we omit stuff on purpose (e.g. we file margin-left under margin instead of making its own entry).
520 distinct property names from 66 technical reports and 66 editors' drafts.
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As a part of ProgrammableWeb's ongoing series of on-demand re-broadcasts of presentations that were given at the monthly Washington, DC-Area API meetup (anyone can attend), this article offers a recording and full transcript of the discussion given by Accrue Ltd. founder and CEO Benoît Brookens who is based in Hong Kong.
I love that Paravel is so busy doing so much cool stuff they literally just forgot that they built this and are just now releasing it.
It's a Sherlock Holmes story, but designed to be more interesting and immersive (even audio!) than just words-on-a-screen.
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A new year is upon us and that means many people take a moment to pause and reflect on the goals they wish to achieve for themselves over the course of the next 12 months. Setting resolutions looks different for …