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Justin Tadlock showed off some work involving SVG background pattern options in the WordPress Customizer:
SVG background pattern options via the WordPress customizer. Still got some cleanup and fine-tuning to do, but this is pretty cool. pic.twitter.com/JQMUFMqlgj
— Justin Tadlock (@justintadlock) July 22, 2019
Bill Erickson shows how to use an SVG for a site favicon. This allows you to modify the favicon styling based on a dynamic color scheme, including a dark mode.
Dashicons are shipped with WordPress and made available to developers looking to use custom icons in their plugins and themes. It’s a great little resource that makes stuff like icons for custom post types much simpler. Currently, Dashicons are an icon font. However, more and more folks (myself included with the front-end of Post Status) are…
The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.
SVGCrop can save you a bunch of time if all you need to do is to trim or crop SVG files. 🌽
As a followup to my note in August on this topic, here’s what Tom Greenwood had to say about WebP’s value to sustainability in WordPress: I think as most browsers support WebP now, there is a real benefit to serving this format as it saves a lot on data transfer and improves performance. The downside…
Carlo Daniele has a developer’s guide to WordPress’s Twenty Seventeen Theme on the Kinsta blog. Carlo shows customizing the front page header, adding more sections to the front page, adding custom SVG icons to the Social Icons menu, and animating front page scrolling.
