Here’s a closer look at named…

ByDan Knauss Posted onJuly 31, 2020

Here’s a closer look at named parameters in PHP 8.

WordPress.com has changed a lot

ByDan Knauss August 25, 2022August 26, 2022

This is managed WordPress hosting — and has been all along I’ve been delinquent with posting on my .blog blog on WordPress.com for about a year, so when I bought into the Pro plan after the first recent price change the new stuff really stood out. I’m also pleased I upgraded then, because after they…

Development

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard January 25, 2013October 7, 2013

WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project’s largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project’s code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.

Carl Alexander has written the most…

ByBrian Krogsgard May 27, 2016

Carl Alexander has written the most complete and comprehensive guide on formatting PHP strings that I’ve ever seen.

Design | Development

WordPress responsive navigation options

ByBrian Krogsgard August 30, 2013August 30, 2013

Navigation is one of the most challenging battles for doing responsive design well. To preface this article, I highly recommend you study Brad Frost’s collections of responsive navigation patterns and complex responsive navigation patterns. In this post, I’ll cover two methods for handling the “toggle” method for responsive navigation in WordPress. Common responsive navigation patterns…

Gutenberg 4.3 was released with many updates,…

ByBrian Krogsgard November 16, 2018

Gutenberg 4.3 was released with many updates, including core custom field meta box toggling, an API for annotations, URL validation to link input in RichText, improved navigation and interactions around the Columns and Gallery blocks, and speech announcement support for block multi-selection. Gutenberg 4.4 soon followed and addressed some long-standing usability issues along with additional fixes….