As many of you already know, WDS folks are regulars at the tech events around the world–particularly when it comes to WordPress. We love teaching, we love learning, and we love meeting people in our community. Recently, though, Lisa received an invitation to...
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Handling AJAX in WordPress in Style
AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) isn’t something that should be feared by anyone. It’s insanely powerful, versatile, and can provide your users cool experiences like processing forms without page redirection, dynamically loading posts while a user scrolls the page, and much more....
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Editor’s note: This blog post was updated on June 27, 2018. Every couple months or so, Google seems to like to shake things up a bit and add some new criteria by which they rank sites. One of the most recent of...
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As someone who loves the command line, I’m always striving to make my workflow easier, more efficient, and just overall better. Hopefully, by walking through my set up and my recommendations for the best command line tools, you’ll find some nifty tips...
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It’s that time again! Another wonderful WordCamp is on the horizon–less than ten days away! Although I find it hard to believe that any of our regular readers are unfamiliar with WordCamp (come on, now!), for those of you that are completely...
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There's a dearth of women in tech, but there are female figures in WordPress changing the game. Here's Suzette on empowering women in WordPress...
Read More Empowering Women in WordPressCMB2 WordPress Plugin: What is it good for? Absolutely everything!
What happened to Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress? Is this an actual plugin? Do I need to use CMB2 instead? These are a few of the types of questions I get asked when talking about CMB2. I agree–it IS confusing! With...
Read More CMB2 WordPress Plugin: What is it good for? Absolutely everything!What to Consider When Creating a Multilingual Site
Multilingual websites are becoming more and more common these days as WordPress becomes increasing popular and even more powerful with an enormous community. When starting out a multilingual site, there are a number of things to consider and some important elements to keep in...
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I love Sass, and I love using icon fonts. However, I do not like the limitations of using inline non-semantic, presentational markup to place these wonderful symbols, e.g. What if we could keep the embellishments in our stylesheet, minimize the HTML markup,...
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