Theme Wrappers
You know what really grinds my gears? Code duplication. And you know where you can find plenty of that? In WordPress themes!
You know what really grinds my gears? Code duplication. And you know where you can find plenty of that? In WordPress themes!
The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that’s all that’s necessary, but to generate a nonce that really is used only once, Stephen Harris details a method to…
WordPress Gear is a “compendium” of useful developer tools for working with WordPress. I like what I see. h/t @paul_wp
RescueTime, which I’ve used since they started up, often has pretty good articles on time management and such. This is one. Most good habits are about maintenance.
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…
Here’s an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic’s mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack: Why don’t we support a single API in our apps? Wouldn’t that make our lives…
A plain-English look at using JavaScript in WordPress, enqueuing scripts with dependencies, and preventing JavaScript conflicts.