Figuring Out What You Want to Do in the World of WordPress
Courtney Robertson
Discover what you really want to do in your career. Identify and acquire the minimum skills and tools you need to master.
How to Get a Job in WordPress
Courtney Robertson
In their debut conversation for Get Hired, Cory and Courtney discuss the kinds of jobs that are available in WordPress and where to find them.
Chris Johnson has designed a tool…
Dan Knauss
Chris Johnson has designed a tool to identify ways to improve the flow of your site, which he calls "Logical Content Flow." This describes "the natural hierarchal flow when headings are applied to HTML content correctly as per the Web…
Addy Osmani, an engineering manager working…
Dan Knauss
Addy Osmani, an engineering manager working on Google Chrome, discusses how you can use HTML image tags to improve Core Web Vitals. There is a ton of information and reading here — perfect if performance is your passion. 💨 Addy…
A quick accessibility reminder for developers…
Dan Knauss
A quick accessibility reminder for developers from Steve Faulkner: "By using native HTML features, wherever practical, over custom HTML with bolt-on semantics and interaction behaviors, you will save yourselves and users a lot of grief and ensure that your User…
Manuel Matuzović shares what looks like…
Dan Knauss
Manuel Matuzović shares what looks like a solid HTML boilerplate, and he explains every line of it. Even if you build HTML from scratch, you will learn something you've forgotten.
Sara Soueidan shows that horizontal rules…
Dan Knauss
Sara Soueidan shows that horizontal rules in HTML don't have to be boring. In this post, Sara shows how she created some interesting visuals and how her horizontal rules can be improved "so that they adapt to various contexts while…
At some point, you want to…
Dan Knauss
At some point, you want to hide information or an element on a page. Kitty Giraudel explains all the right (and wrong) ways to do it — and when you should do it — with HTML or CSS.
Terence Eden tells a story that…
Dan Knauss
Terence Eden tells a story that shows how simple HTML can be quite effective. If you want to connect people to vital information even if the technology they're using is terrible, less is definitely more. 🤔
Malte Ubl, an engineer at Google,…
Dan Knauss
Malte Ubl, an engineer at Google, has some tips for optimizing image loading in 2021. He demonstrates eight techniques in the form of annotated HTML "to make it easy for folks to reproduce the results." đź’¨
Ben Myers dives deep into the…
Dan Knauss
Ben Myers dives deep into the three attributes that bring clarity to HTML elements in assistive technologies: aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby. 🤿
BRIAN’S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment…
Dan Knauss
BRIAN'S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment on Comments Previously we've mentioned Jeremy Felt's ideas for how WordPress comments should work. They're really good, simple steps forward, and this is how we should be thinking about a core feature that ought…
The 2020 Web Almanac’s Markup chapter…
Dan Knauss
The 2020 Web Almanac’s Markup chapter is available now with some interesting statistics based on the analysis of over 7 million web pages. Find out what HTML elements and markup are being used the most, and which aren't. 📊 You…
Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform…
Dan Knauss
Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress. It includes improvements in speed for sites that might be slowed down a bit by plugins or hosting limitations effectively creating a "zero-config edge HTML caching solution." Garrett Galow explains: "Our…
Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can…
Dan Knauss
Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can show documentation to the user directly in the WordPress editor using Markdown. He claims that using Markdown instead of HTML is easier, and there are other benefits. Stressing that "localization for documentation is mandatory,"…
Joe Casabona has a new book…
Dan Knauss
Joe Casabona has a new book out for those just starting on the path to learning HTML and CSS. He talks about what it was like "re-learning" them: "There are a lot of colloquialisms in web development. I didn’t realize…
