A Preview of WordPress 3.6
WordPress 3.6 is right around the corner, due to be released in early May. What can you expect from the next version of this popular blogging and CMS platform? A lot! This release’s underlying theme has…
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Writing Your Own jQuery Plugins
jQuery is great. It’s cross-browser, easy to learn, and makes adding interactivity to your website a breeze. It also comes with plenty of plugins to do almost whatever you need it to do. But what if…
Read MoreTame WordPress from the Command Line with wp-cli
Some people fear the command line. They view it as the deep, dark underbelly of their computer, far from the familiar comforts of the GUI. A place of great mystery where even the angels fear to…
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3 Quick Steps to Get Your Site Retina Ready
Not too long ago, as I was browsing the web on my MacBook Pro with Retina display, I came across a typical form on a typical website. The buttons were fairly standard faire — gradients, rounded…
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A New Way to Use WordPress to Kill Your Competition
It’s no secret that WordPress is one of the most popular platforms in our industry. There are multiple companies in every town and in every country that claim to do WordPress installations and websites. As we…
Read MoreThe Ecstasy and Agony of Compass Sprite Generation, Part 2
In the first part of our tutorial on Compass sprites, I showed you how awesome it was that we could make Compass do all the hard work for us by simply throwing our icons into their…
Read MoreThe Ecstasy and Agony of Compass Sprite Generation, Part 1
CSS preprocessors have become increasingly popular in recent years because of their capacity to do a lot of the most tedious parts of CSS for you automatically. (For an overview of the different CSS preprocessors available,…
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Adding Custom Fields to a Custom Post Type, the Right Way
WordPress has come a long way from its humble blogging beginnings. With the popularization of Custom Posts Types (CPTs), WordPress has emerged to become a fully-featured CMS platform, suitable for any kind of content you can…
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