Developing websites these days involves a lot of testing on different devices and browsers. Services like CrossBrowserTesting and Browser Stack make this much easier, but it’s still unrealistic to boot up a testing session every time you make a change to your local site. You also...
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Replacing Default WordPress User Dropdowns with an AJAX Solution
WordPress’s default dropdowns for Authors and Parent Pages in WP Admin work well for most setups, but sometimes the large number of users can slow page load and exhaust memory. A solution that I like is replacing the user dropdown with Select2...
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We’ve talked earlier about using Vagrant and VVV for local development, and now it’s time to take it a step further. Taking mobile devices into account when developing a website is no longer optional; it’s a requirement. That leaves you with a...
Read More How to View a Locally Developed Website on Other DevicesHow to Produce a High Quality Screencast
No one likes reading, right? I mean, why are you even reading this sentence instead of surfing YouTube looking at cat videos? As a culture, we often to gravitate toward passive entertainment–information flung at us without us having to do a whole lot of work...
Read More How to Produce a High Quality ScreencastAnticipating User Needs: Create a Better Contact Form
Every company in the world is trying to sell an experience—from Apple to McDonalds to Disney World. Whether we’re truly aware of it all the time, we’re experiencing things every second. Someone is either selling us the experience itself, or that experience...
Read More Anticipating User Needs: Create a Better Contact FormCreate a Simple JSON Endpoint in WordPress
As you may or may not know, the WordPress JSON REST API is on the horizon for a future version of WordPress. This will be one of the most important and influential additions to WordPress core we may see, especially for those...
Read More Create a Simple JSON Endpoint in WordPressThe Questions You Need to Ask When Building a Team
Building a team is one of the hardest things to do, and yet it’s so crucial to creating a sustaining, successful business with happy employees. We’ve heard Brad share his basic philosophy on this a few times, and the value of it...
Read More The Questions You Need to Ask When Building a TeamCreating Custom Templates for BuddyPress
On my first day working at WebDevStudios, Greg Rickaby told me that one of the best things about working here is that I would constantly be getting to learn new technologies. He wasn’t lying. In my second week, I was tasked with...
Read More Creating Custom Templates for BuddyPressCreate Simple Inline Media Queries with include-media
Lately, I’ve been thinking that our current method of using inline media queries throughout our Sass partials has not been flexible enough for the projects we’ve been building. While it was simple and allowed for easy implementation, I think it is time...
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