Chris Coyier reviews some approaches to…
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?…
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. Chris Coyier responded to Simon’s post with additional learning projects that focus a lot less…
After a conversation with Rachel Andrew,…
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 new technologies to existing/well-known ones. Write what’s personal and important to you.
If you’ve seen but avoided the…
If you’ve seen but avoided the current, heated CSS-in-JS discussions, then this balanced roundup from Chris Coyier might be just the thing for you.
Chris Coyier shares his thoughts on how…
Chris Coyier shares his thoughts on how to improve WordPress comments. Chris has WordPress sites with a cumulative total of a few hundred thousand (generally high quality) comments, so he speaks with some authority on this subject. Many of Chris’s suggestions are ones I like — HTML email formatting and some design love for the admin…
If you’re interested in learning Vue, a popular…
If you’re interested in learning Vue, a popular JavaScript framework, then you must check out this new screencast from css-tricks.com. Sarah Drasner and Chris Coyier spend over an hour showing off Vue’s basic capabilities.
I love this creative post from…
I love this creative post from Chris Coyier about using DevTools to tackle or sidestep “obnoxious websites.” Ethical grey areas aside, you can learn more about the web by looking over some of these tips.
Chris Coyier explores how different Content…
Chris Coyier explores how different Content Management Systems handle blocks of content. Chris considers CraftCMS, Drupal, and WordPress with SiteOrigin’s Page Builder as well as Gutenberg.
Let’s celebrate two website anniversaries: WPBeginner…
Let’s celebrate two website anniversaries: WPBeginner recently turned eight. Syed Balkhi reflects of all the major things happening in the business, along with personal accomplishments. CSS Tricks is now a decade old. Chris Coyier looks back on the first post and all the changes the site has gone through. Chris started the site on WordPress…
If you compose HTML emails, then…
If you compose HTML emails, then you’ll want to read this post from Chris Coyier that highlights some essential tools, workflows, and APIs that will make your work easier.
Chris Coyier asks when a project…
Chris Coyier asks when a project needs React. His take: (1) if your application has a lot of “state” (2) if you’re looking to avoid spaghetti code and looking to build things into modules and (3) there’s a high need to manually handle the DOM. Reasons not to jump into React? Because it’s the “next…
The first twenty or so minutes…
The first twenty or so minutes of a recent episode of the Shop Talk Show from Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier is must-listen for all WordPress professionals. A listener complains that WordPress isn’t improving the web because it is too much of an enabler, and then Chris and Dave make some salient points on the issue. I agree…
Chris Coyier shows a clever method…
Chris Coyier shows a clever method on how to build full width containers in limited width parents in CSS.
Scott Fennell started a three-part series…
Scott Fennell started a three-part series on CSS Tricks on using the WordPress REST API for “remote control WordPress.” Speaking of CSS Tricks, here’s another good post where Chris Coyier walks through the many things to consider when styling a modal.
Ah, the <pre> tag. It’s quite…
Ah, the <pre> tag. It’s quite handy to show off code. Chris Coyier has some good tips on how to style that tag. I had no idea there was a tab-size parameter in CSS for styling pre tags. Chris says the default is eight spaces, so it should probably be standard for us to reduce that, especially…
Moving Dashicons from an icon font to SVG
Mel Choyce has started the conversation on Make Core to change WordPress’s Dashicons icon font to SVG: In the next couple months, we’re going to focus on converting the Dashicons icon font in core to SVG. The process of adding and updating the Dashicons font is an incredibly labor intensive, tedious process that is currently limited…
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