Category: Tutorial

Why Grids Matter: A Review From Chaos to Order

For ages, grids have hung prose on pages to the benefit of humanity and to its curse at times. The topic of grids is lost to some, especially in a world that moves so fast. Designers have to, at times, initiate the...

How to QA WordPress Websites Like a Pro!

You’ve pushed your final bit of code and crossed the final item off of your to-do list. Now it’s just time to sit back, relax and wait for all of the praise on a job well done to come rolling in, right? Wrong....

Better Responsive Typography

Any smartphone user has probably noticed and been annoyed by sites (even responsive ones) that are difficult to read or just don’t look quite right. I know I’ve been annoyed by trying to view a website on my phone and having to...

Integrating Font Awesome Icons in bbPress

The amount of thought and time that goes into designing a universally accepted icon is amazing. Choosing when to utilize icons to represent interfacing elements is paramount to whether users will understand, and seamlessly navigate areas of a website. Previously, website icons...

Using APIs to Integrate with WordPress

Editor’s note: This blog post was updated on June 27, 2018. Instagram has deprecated much of this API. This widget still works, if you’re showing your own content. Even then, that functionality will be gone in 2020. It’s recommended you look into using...

You Broke It! Better Error Handling So Your Errors Don’t Suck!

There you are. Face illuminated by the blue glow of the monitor. You’ve just finished passing the third of three sets of WP_Query arguments to a function that’s supposed to run a loop with the passed args. Except…arg is what you’re feeling right now because your loop…isn’t...

Unit Testing Your Plugins

So you have an amazing plugin, and it’s starting to get bigger and the bug reports are piling up (or better you are are starting a new plugin and you wanna do it right). Unfortunately getting PHPUnit to properly function with WordPress...

Don’t Repeat Yourself! How to Create an Author Box Using the Gravatar API

Wouldn’t it be great if the box above could be automatically filled by your Gravatar profile? Tons of services auto-populate your info using Gravatar right? Why can’t my profile information (and social media info) just auto populate in WordPress too!? (NOTE: someone smarter...

Evolving the Design Process

Technology is advancing at what seems like the speed of light yet our design process hasn’t changed much at all over time. The kick-off meeting was held, research has been done and now the design phase begins. If you are lucky, you...