UX is such a fuzzy term; honestly, that’s one thing I can’t stand about it. Ask 10 different professionals what it means and you might get 10 different answers. Most would probably agree that user experience is the perception a … Continue reading
As of Chrome 21, there is no more live CSS editor under the “Resources” tab. At first glance this is a huge setback, since the live CSS edit feature is an invaluable part of the developer tools. However, the “fix” … Continue reading
Bad: Making ajax requests that ping arbitrary theme URLs, then parse and return bulky HTML data. Good: making ajax requests that ping WordPress’ built-in ajax utilities (wp-admin/admin-ajax.php) and return lightweight JSON data. Continue reading
The problem As I’m sure you know, Javascript has a nice event called keypress that detects the client-side press of a key from the keyboard. However, there are times when you need to get more specific than that and detect … Continue reading
What is a shortcode? If you’re a WordPress user, chances are you’ve come across plugins that use shortcodes. What are shortcodes? They’re the little pseudo-code snippets, enclosed in brackets, that can be used in the post content section of the … Continue reading
The problem Sometimes while working on a project (especially on a team where you are constantly interacting with other peoples’ code) you may encounter objects in Javascript whose properties you need to refer to and access — but you aren’t … Continue reading
The Problem One of the great things about WordPress is its simplicity and cleanliness. So, it only makes sense that one of the things that annoys me about the platform is the array of seemingly useless <link> tags that are … Continue reading
Problem So, on my new WordPress blog (you’re on it!) I’m going to be using post tags to classify and describe each blog post. That way, I can then use these tags to organize blog posts by tags (which will … Continue reading
The Problem One of the projects I’m working on is using a lot of client-side functionality — such that we’re mixing and matching libraries to achieve the functionality that we need. I explain this to defend the fact that we’re … Continue reading
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