Do you like saving time (and money)? Are you exhausted by constant interruptions and barriers when trying to ship, because of internal feuds about code syntax? Are you 100% confident that your app will work across different PHP versions and devices? If not, then using code linters on your next project can...
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Animations for the Web
There is no shortage of animations on the webernetz™ these days, and libraries to support them. Some web animations are good, and some gratuitous. Recently, I was fortunate to work on a few projects that required animations; therefore, I got a refresher on some concepts. I was also able to...
Continue Reading Animations for the WebGet Loopy with Sass
Whether you use Sass/SCSS, Less, or Stylus to compile your CSS, one thing’s for certain; it just makes life much easier. These preprocessors give us access to variables, necessary calculations, and powerful mixins that allow us to take our front-end workflow to the next level. As time passes the projects...
Continue Reading Get Loopy with SassA New Year and New Learning
If you can already believe it, we’re a month into 2017! The start of each new year is filled with new goals, things we’ll change, and things we’ll continue to improve upon from the previous year – be it personal or professional. With all the hopes and admiration we have...
Continue Reading A New Year and New LearningHow to Migrate a Widget to a Custom Post Type
Recently, one of my favorite themes, Zerif Lite, was suspended from the WordPress repo. As I was reading about the issues involved, it got me thinking: Just how hard is it to migrate a widget to a Custom Post Type? According to ThemeIsle, this was one of the factors which led to their...
Continue Reading How to Migrate a Widget to a Custom Post TypeHow to Download FTP Files in WordPress
Recently, I was given the opportunity to work on a really cool importing project that involved us pulling data from an FTP server and importing that into WordPress. It led me to look deeper into the Filesystem API; WordPress does this already, and I wanted to learn more. There’s a couple of...
Continue Reading How to Download FTP Files in WordPressLevel Up With jQuery Dimensions
It’s hard to believe that I’m well into my second year of being a front-end dev here at WDS. It has been an awesome experience and I’m truly blessed to work with such a great group of people. Halfway through 2015, I officially caught the bug known as Javascript and I...
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We’ve covered the reasons why using transients (and caching in general) can greatly enhance the performance of WordPress sites. I’m offering up what I find to be two compelling solutions for pain points that are often encountered when working with transients–how to create dynamic keys and delete transients in bulk.
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Optimizing your development workflow is one of the most important things a developer can do. Being able to leverage your tools quickly and efficiently lets you spend your time working on actual development–instead of fighting your tools or doing boring, repetitive things. A few months ago, I wrote a blog...
Continue Reading A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Bash & Shell ScriptsGetting Started with Flexbox: First Impressions, Tips, & Tricks
Recently, here at WDS, we started incorporating Flexbox into our projects. I wanted to share some great resources I’ve come across to get going with Flexbox and highlight some of the early first impressions and some of the struggles you might encounter along the way. And, if you want to...
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