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In other upgrade news, WP Rocket…

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Brian Krogsgard

In other upgrade news, WP Rocket announced version 2.10 with new features such as a revamped settings dashboard and improved static file caching. Now you can minify CSS and JavaScript assets without any concatenation.

If you do front-end work and…

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Brian Krogsgard

If you do front-end work and aren't familiar with Babel, Autoprefixer, or Browserslist yet you should take a few moments to read this post on CSS Tricks.

There’s been a lot of attention…

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Dan Knauss

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…

Browser support changes in WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

Matt Mullenweg announced browser support changes for WordPress. Previously, we discussed the new editor and browser support within WordPress core. Following up on those conversations, we are officially ending support for Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10, starting with…

There is no lack of approaches…

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Dan Knauss

There is no lack of approaches with CSS to tackle projects. Here is a nice overview of different CSS methodologies that might guide you into finding the right CSS methodology for every situation. And speaking of CSS, this month marks…

Years ago, Harry Roberts wrote about…

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Brian Krogsgard

Years ago, Harry Roberts wrote about "code smells" on CSS Wizardry. He has a follow-up that I really enjoyed, and can give you an idea whether you've got some underlying problems with your Sass/CSS.

When you add new features to…

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Brian Krogsgard

When you add new features to WordPress, there's always someone wanting a way to remove it. Justin Tadlock walks us through how to remove the customize CSS option in WordPress 4.7, which many developer may not need, or want to…

I’m always amazed what can be…

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Dan Knauss
I'm always amazed what can be done with CSS and when I think i've seen everything, I see something that I think is cool. This time it's this one that shows filtering content using only CSS. There are drawbacks, but…

I enjoyed Nash Vail explanation of…

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Dan Knauss
I enjoyed Nash Vail explanation of how CSS pseduo-classes work - especially the diagrams and charts used. If you are pressing forward with CSS and haven't mastered this yet, bookmark this article.

“You Might Not Need JavaScript” is…

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Brian Krogsgard

"You Might Not Need JavaScript" is a site that showcases examples of UI elements and interactions that you can accomplish with HTML and CSS alone. There is more than one way to tackle something, and an experienced developer chooses which…

I found this list of underutilized…

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Brian Krogsgard

I found this list of underutilized CSS features to be educational, since it did show me a few items that I either haven't used in forever or completely forgot about. I really wish I remembered the :empty pseudo class, for instance.

Jonathan Christopher linked CSSNano in Slack…

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Brian Krogsgard

Jonathan Christopher linked CSSNano in Slack today. According to the website, it "takes your nicely formatted CSS and runs it through many focused optimisations, to ensure that the final result is as small as possible for a production environment." It…

Gary Jones and Weston Ruter have…

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Brian Krogsgard

Gary Jones and Weston Ruter have recently updated the PHP_CodeSniffer rules that enforce WordPress coding conventions. PHP_CodeSniffer is a set of two PHP scripts: one "tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards," and…

Using Kickstarter to fund open source

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Daniel Bachhuber
Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, "A more RESTful WP-CLI."

Scott Fennell started a three-part series…

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Brian Krogsgard

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…
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