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Sarah Drasner made a CSS Grid generator tool. It’s awe-inspiring and useful: you can designate rows, columns, gaps, and units. Then you can drag them to create child containers in dynamic layouts.
WordPress 5.2.4 was released to address at least six security issues. 🔒 The first release candidate for WordPress 5.3 is available now, as well. 🏁 Remember, this release includes and fully supports PHP 7.4! More information about 5.3 continues to be published as we near its official release: In September, the WordPress Accessibility team tested…
Konstantin Obenland has been involved with the development of the last three default WordPress themes. In this post, he makes a great case for simplifying the default theme with Twenty Fifteen; and he goes as far as advocating simply using _s as is, only adding a custom style.css, a la CSS Zen Garden. His argument…
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…
There’s been a lot of attention paid to the CSS grid layout, and this seems entirely justified as browser support for it is growing. There are quite a few guides and tutorials out now that will help you get up to speed, like this one from Chris Brandrick or this one from alligator.io. As Rachel Andrew reminds…
We like to say it’s easy to build a website, and to build it on top of WordPress. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But for just about anyone, it can be intimidating when you’re just digging in. You’ve got to learn your ABCs before you can tell a great story. On the web — especially as it gets more complicated — there’s a lot to learn to build and maintain a modern website.
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins. Emmanuel Yusufu has written a nice introduction and tutorial if you want to dive in.
