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Developing WordPress plugins with boilerplates

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Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin, doing what Tom McFarlin does over on wpTuts+. Go read about why boilerplates matter. I personally use versions of both of his settings and plugin boilerplates, which you can get from the links in his post. Go read…

I thought I knew about responsive design

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Brian Krogsgard
I thought I knew a lot about responsive design, but I learned a ton in this post by Paul Stamatiou. He recently redesigned his blog, and he goes into great length into how he did it, and what he learned.…

Introduction to WordPress Filters

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Brian Krogsgard
This short guide, aimed at beginner/intermediate developers, introduces WordPress filters, explains their basic use, and provides some examples on the topic of cheese sticks.

It’s the information, stupid

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Brian Krogsgard
That's why people go to websites. My colleague, David Hickox, hits the nail on the head. Sliders are the latest craze, but, "they’re just the latest in a long line of misguided client fixations aimed at producing excitement and engagement…

How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms

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Brian Krogsgard
Using this snippet, you can make Gravity Forms fields read only, or greyed out, by simply applying a CSS class to the field, thus disabling user edits to the field: useful for displaying information.

Nevermind

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Brian Krogsgard
"Nevermind". A human, friendly example of nice messaging in a web interface. I love stuff like this. Also, I started reading this blog tonight because Tina Roth Eisenberg, the site's owner, did an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on the Big Web…

Reset

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Austin Passy
Run this query to reset all posts featured images to the first uploaded image in that post.

A week of visiting websites pretending to be blind

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Brian Krogsgard
As developers, we are still not doing enough to make the web accessible to all types of users. In this story, David Ball spends a week pretending to be blind on the internet. He learned some interesting things, but in…
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