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Intro to Underscore.js templates

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Brian Krogsgard

Justin Tadlock has an excellent tutorial for Underscore.js templating beginners. I'm guessing that's a lot of us. The Underscore.js library has been in WordPress for many versions now. However, it’s next to impossible to find good tutorials that walk you…

Shortcode syntax and API changes drafted and under review

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Brian Krogsgard
It's been a busy few days for shortcodes. Most, if not all, core committers and project leads would tell you that they'd rather burn the shortcodes API than anything else. But it's one of those things that exists and now…

So you want responsive images in core?

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Brian Krogsgard

Yeah, who doesn't! Well, The Responsive Images Community Group has been working hard on an official feature plugin. Joe McGill recently posted an update in regard to what's going on, the scope of the plugin, and how folks can help. He…

Things learned building and coding HTML emails

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Brian Krogsgard
Now, don't everybody click at once, as I know it will be tempting. But this article is all about stuff Lee Munroe has learned about building HTML emails. Let me put it this way: making email templates suuuuucks. If you've…

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

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Sami Keijonen
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.

Isolated and intrigued

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Brian Krogsgard

Another outstanding story on HeroPress, this time from Sean Davis: Finally, at 25 years old and 7 years deep into the Army (which was a planned career at that time), the habit of being isolated and intrigued began to serve…

You are valuable

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Brian Krogsgard
The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but…

A(nother) new era of WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

Jeff Waugh is a prominent advocate worldwide of the open source ecosystem. In his latest article, he talks about the continued evolution of WordPress in a "new era", which is mostly stuff my audience should know about. But it's good…

WordPress accessibility and how it’s misunderstood

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Brian Krogsgard

Joe Dolson has a really information post about why WordPress accessibility is often misunderstood. In short, it's because the front-end is incredibly variable depending on the theme and plugins installed. WordPress itself, with any generated output and the admin, are…

The problem of link rot and data loss

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Brian Krogsgard
Link rot is a serious issue on the web, as many links of the past are going away. We lose that data for good if we don't back it up somewhere. It may seem insignificant now, but we simply don't know what is being published today that we'll wish we'd kept in the future. But we can solve this issue.
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