CSS

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Brady Vercher

July 8, 2014

According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

Aesop, a Medium-esque “story engine” for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 18, 2014

BusinessDesign

Aesop is a self-described "story engine" for WordPress. The plugin boasts "components designed for rich storytelling experiences." Basically, it creates an admin interface that allows a site owner to create interactive stories, similar to those popularized by projects like Medium…

The ins and outs of code blocks in WordPress content

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2014

WordPress News

Chris Coyier has done a nice job going through the various considerations to make when posting code in WordPress content. He covers using <pre> and <code> tags in the WordPress editor directly, using Markdown and Github flavored Markdown, and third…

It’s time for a simpler default WordPress theme

Brian Krogsgard

December 20, 2013

WordPress News

Konstantin Obenland has been involved with the development of the last three default WordPress themes. In this post, he makes a great case for simplifying the default theme with Twenty Fifteen; and he goes as far as advocating simply using…

Make your own WordPress admin themes

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

Design

As I noted in my feature post on WordPress 3.8, the new WordPress build tools (using Grunt) and the port of the admin CSS to Sass make it much easier for WordPress core to make new admin themes. Well, with…

WordPress responsive navigation options

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2013

DesignDevelopment

Navigation is one of the most challenging battles for doing responsive design well. To preface this article, I highly recommend you study Brad Frost's collections of responsive navigation patterns and complex responsive navigation patterns. In this post, I'll cover two…

Social navigation menu with Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

WordPress News

Justin Tadlock walks you through creating a menu for your social networks, making use of CSS attribute selectors. He shows you how to do it all with the Genericons icon font. This is actually part two, but you can check…

Envato announces new theme check guidelines for ThemeForest

Brian Krogsgard

July 4, 2013

WordPress News

Japh Thomson has made a huge announcement on the Envato Notes blog. Starting in a few weeks, Envato will be enforcing a new theme check process for all WordPress themes to ensure high quality code and WordPress best practices are…

The Styles plugin integrates a ton of customizer options into the default themes

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

WordPress News

I ran across the Styles plugin today, thanks to a tweet from Brady Vercher. I was intrigued because Brady said, "I really think this plugin could be the standard for easily customizing themes." That's quite a statement. But after installing…

What’s your WordPress job title?

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Job titles can be confusing. If you've ever tried to hire a WordPress consultant to build you a website, or you've had inquiries about your services, you've likely encountered some level of confusion trying to decipher what an individual (or…

Write Simple CSS in Plugins

Pippin Williamson

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

One of the philosophies of plugin development that I believe in very strongly is that CSS should be kept simple and easy to override.

Force CSS changes to bust browser cache

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

This is an old one, but still a great solution for busting browser cache any time you update your theme stylesheet. Mark Jaquith shows how to easily wrap your stylesheet with filemtime, a PHP function that returns the time a…

How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

Development

Using this snippet, you can make Gravity Forms fields read only, or greyed out, by simply applying a CSS class to the field, thus disabling user edits to the field: useful for displaying information.