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.
Here’s a great article by Zack Tollman exploring ideas around caching parts of pages for views in WordPress.
The Washington Post has a feature called The Grid that tracks realtime events in, well, a grid. It’s a combination of tweets and other things they find interesting, and in this profile, they show how they used WordPress and other tools to create this unique platform. It’s an honest and interesting case study. h/t Devin…
Joy Shaheb explains every CSS background property and illustrates them with code examples. This might be handy for front-end developers and anyone who works with CSS. 🎨
Corey Maass and Cory Miller have been working to build a WordPress product live. Their plugin, Crop.Express, has been submitted to the repo. They discuss the outcome of their submission and continue to develop features. In addition, they discuss building brand identity, cultivating awareness, and developing authority as a needed business.
“You Might Not Need JavaScript” is a site that showcases examples of UI elements and interactions that you can accomplish with HTML and CSS alone. There is more than one way to tackle something, and an experienced developer chooses which path fits the need. And course there might be instances where you do need JavaScript.
A new version of Firefox (70) is out, and Chris Mills covers all the developer-focused enhancements. Firefox has made tremendous advances in developer tools and features — both in CSS and JavaScript — and I’ve enjoyed using it for the past month as my default browser. One of the things I miss from Chrome is…
