BobWP’s Woo Snippet for the Week of March 27
Bob Dunn
WooCommerce 6.4 RC 1 📦 Blocks and Admin 🔌 Time to Retire ZeroClipboard ⚠️ Clients in a Candy Store 🍬 Sustainable Woo? 🪴 Zach Stepek, Carl Alexander, Till Krüss, and JJJ 🎙️
Post Status Notes #490
David Bisset
Newfold acquires YITH, Hostopia. Wordfence stops FastOrSlow.com. DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks. Tips and tricks for WordPress devs.
Chris Coyier wonders where headless WordPress…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier wonders where headless WordPress will land. 🛬 After acknowledging some of the benefits and how different groups are approaching it, he reaches this conclusion: “There’s just a heck of a lot more WordPress site owners who aren’t developers…
Chris Coyier shares some insights on…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier shares some insights on how to tackle auto-generated social media images. One way in WordPress is with the Social Image Generator plugin, which Chris describes in detail. 🔌
Chris Coyier has a nice piece…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier has a nice piece on what words to avoid in educational writing. I know I’ve used some of these words before, and I’ll be careful to avoid them in the future. As Chris says, "these words might detract…
Chris Coyier has made an open…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier has made an open source microsite showcasing coding fonts. ⌨️
Chris Coyier considers how one might…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier considers how one might create an old-school webring today. 💍
BRIAN’S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment…
Dan Knauss
BRIAN'S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment on Comments Previously we've mentioned Jeremy Felt's ideas for how WordPress comments should work. They're really good, simple steps forward, and this is how we should be thinking about a core feature that ought…
Chris Coyier has a new and…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier has a new and lengthy but highly consumable essay on the subject of "The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers." Chris touches on the increasing burdens of the role as well as its joys: "Being a front-end developer puts…
Chris Coyier stops to think about…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier stops to think about the power usage of websites and whether good performance maps to lower energy usage. 🔋 Chris links to a number of good articles and experiments on this subject. At the end of the day…
If you dabble in CSS animations…
Dan Knauss
If you dabble in CSS animations and CSS scroll effects, Zach Saucier has a great overview of scroll technologies that target specific and more general scroll behaviors. 📜 Also from CSS Tricks, Chris Coyier shares some different perceptions of Developer…
Chris Coyier updated his advice on…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier updated his advice on where to learn WordPress theme development nowadays.
Chris Coyier has a well-written and…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier has a well-written and complete guide to HTML data attributes. He explains what you can and shouldn't do, styling issues, and how to access data attributes in JavaScript. 🐕 CSS Tricks has a nice guide focused on proper…
Chris Coyier reviews some approaches to…
Dan Knauss
Chris Coyier reviews some approaches to removing unused CSS from a site, and he recommends starting with a look at "coverage" in Chrome's DevTools. PurifyCSS, UnusedCSS, and PurgeCSS are also addressed. 🚿
Want to strengthen your JavaScript skills?…
Dan Knauss
Want to strengthen your JavaScript skills? Read this post by Tania Rascia on "Understanding This, Bind, Call, and Apply in JavaScript." 💪 Simon Holdorf also has some ideas for helping you boost your skills as a front-end developer in 2020.…
After a conversation with Rachel Andrew,…
Dan Knauss
After a conversation with Rachel Andrew, Chris Coyier put together some excellent suggestions about technical writing in a detailed post. Some key takeaways: Make content scannable with thoughtful intros and outros while being mindful of the length and tone. Relate…
