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If you are interested in CSS…

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2018

If you are interested in CSS and performance, then this brain dump from Harry Roberts is well worth your time. Harry covers the "Critical CSS" pattern, in which you identify all of the styles needed for Start Render (commonly the styles…

Gutenberg 4.0 is out, and this…

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2018

Gutenberg 4.0 is out, and this release covers a number of items from a long "pending items" list. Other than bug fixes, some new additions include colors for cover image overlays, a new font size picker, better pullquote features, post locking, a…

Front-end developers might want to read this…

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2018

Front-end developers might want to read this article on modular CSS from Scott Vandehey. CSS at scale can be difficult to maintain, so modular CSS (which started at Yahoo and Yandex) was created to solve that problem.

If you would like to get…

Dan Knauss

September 4, 2018

If you would like to get a good handle on CSS Grids, check out this newly

StyleURL is a neat tool that lets…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

StyleURL is a neat tool that lets you export and share CSS changes directly from Chrome DevTools. Magic CSS is another tool with a similar toolset that came highly recommended.

Susty WP is an experiment by…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2018

Susty WP is an experiment by Jack Lenox to see how small a WordPress theme can get. Jack got the homepage of his website to about 7KB of data transfer earned — not at all surprisingly — top scores in…

Morten Rand-Hendriksen recently announced WP Rig,…

Brian Krogsgard

June 25, 2018

Morten Rand-Hendriksen recently announced WP Rig, a community project supported by LinkedIn Learning, Google, XWP, and other members of the WordPress community. It's being described as a "modern build process and progressive starter theme bundled together." The goal is to simplify…

Front-end developers who wish to brush…

Brian Krogsgard

June 25, 2018

Front-end developers who wish to brush up on their CSS selector skills (or perhaps discover some they didn't know about) may be interested in this "level up" guide from David Gwyer.

As usual, we start off with…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

As usual, we start off with a few Gutenberg updates. Gutenberg 2.5 was officially released on March 29th, with a heavy focus on new and improved tools to extend and interact with the editor. On the user side, there are updates to…

An Interview with GeneratePress founder Tom Usborne

Dan Knauss

February 23, 2018

BusinessDesign

GeneratePress has earned a substantial user base, surpassing a million downloads last year. Here's what it's creator and founder has to say about the journey.

Another great (and free) source of…

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

Another great (and free) source of tutorials is freeCodeCamp — they have something for everyone. A recent podcast episode on the employee management problem of "brilliant jerks" is worth a listen. They've been working through a great little series on CSS…

WordPress with an IDE in it

Brian Krogsgard

October 13, 2017

Have you used the beta version of WordPress 4.9? I have. One of the new things is the file editor, which has been pretty fully overhauled. It has a lot of improvements. If we are to have a file editor…

If you’re using CSS Grid layout,…

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

If you're using CSS Grid layout, then you might appreciate this recent post from Smashing Magazine by Rachel Andrew. It answers some common questions and addresses frequent stumbling blocks.

Jens Oliver Meiert has crunched some…

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2017

Jens Oliver Meiert has crunched some numbers, and according to his research there is 70% repetition of CSS styles. This is based on a sampling of 200 sites from The Moz Top 500 plus a few others. Since developers strive to avoid…

Morten Rand-Hendriksen has a comprehensive post…

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2017

Morten Rand-Hendriksen has a comprehensive post at Smashing Magazine that explains how to build production-ready CSS Grid layouts. This is broadly relevant to all front-end developers, although Morten's focus here is on WordPress themes.

Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons went…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons went on the Shop Talk Show to talk about CSS Grid, and it's a really in-depth, valuable conversation. You can start using it now, and they really helped clarify a lot of Grid questions I…

If you are interested in CSS…

Gutenberg 4.0 is out, and this…

Front-end developers might want to read this…

If you would like to get…

StyleURL is a neat tool that lets…

Susty WP is an experiment by…

Morten Rand-Hendriksen recently announced WP Rig,…

Front-end developers who wish to brush…

As usual, we start off with…

An Interview with GeneratePress founder Tom Usborne

Another great (and free) source of…

WordPress with an IDE in it

If you’re using CSS Grid layout,…

Jens Oliver Meiert has crunched some…

Morten Rand-Hendriksen has a comprehensive post…

Rachel Andrew and Jen Simmons went…

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