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Using Timber for Twig support in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

TJ Fogarty writes on CSS Tricks about how Timber and Twig reignited his love for WordPress. His post is useful in a variety of ways. For one, it's a very nice introduction if you are interested in using the Twig…

Takeaways from interviewing 13 great WordPress developers

Fred Meyer

August 10, 2015

Development

After interviewing thirteen WordPress developers for a book on getting up and running with WordPress development, I have some key takeaways that I'd like to share with you.

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

BusinessDesign

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Pearson versus Mullenweg, a history

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2015

BusinessDesign

This is a preview of the first part of my upcoming article on Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress. Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They are…

Dealing with ROT content

Brian Krogsgard

June 11, 2015

Design

A lot of big websites have ROT (Redundant, out-of-date, trivial) content, and it can make maintaining and improving websites incredibly difficult. If you've ever worked on a website with a few thousand pages you know what I mean; but the…

Responsive image brainstorming

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2015

I enjoyed Morten Rand-Hendriksen's self-proclaimed "Morten thinking out loud" posts on responsive images in WordPress. As Morten notes, the responsive images community group is working on a plugin that may become a WordPress feature plugin proposal for core some time…

If you ever do web animations,…

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

If you ever do web animations, GreenSock looks like a neat Javascript based solution, if what you're doing is more complex than simple CSS animations. GreenSock seems to be an industry standard for complex animations, but Ryan McCue said in…

Critical rendering path and front end performance notes

Brian Krogsgard

May 21, 2015

There is no fold, unless you're talking about the critical rendering path, of course. For a primer on critical rendering paths, Patrick Sexton has a good introduction: Let's look at the path that this page takes before it gets displayed....…

A basic example of fetching posts with the WP API

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2015

Andy Adams offers a simple example on CSS Tricks for fetching a random post with the click of a button, using the WordPress REST API. His example is similar to how I run the ad system on Post Status (I…

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

Escaping all the things

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

Andy Adams just keeps delivering the goods. This time, he guest posts on CSS Tricks with an excellent introduction to front-end escaping of data. I'm really glad this is on a blog as popular as CSS Tricks, because it's a…

GoomWay

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Development

Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!

Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse added as WordPress lead developers

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2015

Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse have been added as WordPress lead developers. Straight from Andrew Nacin's announcement on Make WordPress Core: The two are already highly respected leaders in the community. Dion has architected some of the most important code…

Ideas for small improvements to the new Distraction-Free Writing

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

Distraction-Free Writing in WordPress changed in 4.1. It's now an extension of the regular post editor, and it's had some critics and resistance (like all new WordPress features). I took some of the complaints to see if they could be integrated into the DFW editor to make the feature better.

The ABCs of the web

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

DevelopmentPlanet

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.

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

Brian Krogsgard

July 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He's a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been…

Using Timber for Twig support in WordPress

Takeaways from interviewing 13 great WordPress developers

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Pearson versus Mullenweg, a history

Dealing with ROT content

Responsive image brainstorming

If you ever do web animations,…

Critical rendering path and front end performance notes

A basic example of fetching posts with the WP API

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Escaping all the things

GoomWay

Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse added as WordPress lead developers

Ideas for small improvements to the new Distraction-Free Writing

The ABCs of the web

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

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