The case against Singletons in WordPress
Mike Toppa makes a case against Singletons in the ongoing discussion regarding best practices for object oriented WordPress development.
Mike Toppa makes a case against Singletons in the ongoing discussion regarding best practices for object oriented WordPress development.
Mark Jaquith explains how he built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”, a baby gear site built on WordPress and inspired by “The Wirecutter”
The editor blocks concept is being designed. An extremely healthy conversation is happening on Make Design around what the behavior should be, and how people may interact with a block-style editor. I’m really liking the general UI concepts, and most of the shortcut ideas, like using a / for quick-command access. Note that the image…
Scroll Kit was a story builder of sorts. They marketed themselves for a while by saying you could build “Snowfall”, the New York Times’ famous article, in an hour with their platform. An article by the founder on Medium about getting into a legal discussion with the Times is probably the best way to learn about them…
Updates Update WordPress 5.4 Beta 2 is now available for testing. WordPress 5.4 is slated for release on March 31 and contains a number of user and developer enhancements, including updated block editor keyboard shortcuts, favicon handling, and some bugfixes. 🐛 WordPress 5.4 also introduces apply_shortcodes() as an alias for do_shortcode(). A discussion of XML…
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 methods for handling the “toggle” method for responsive navigation in WordPress. Common responsive navigation patterns…
Justin Sternberg posted on the WebDevStudios blog a code example for changing the default hierarchical taxonomy metabox (like for categories) into a radio button select box. This is very handy for limiting end users to choosing only one taxonomy term.