WordPress gives developers a number of ways to grab post content from the database. A lot has been written about the differences between using query_posts(), get_posts() and WP_Query, with WP_query being generally favored in most situations. But there is …
Stylesheet files can get ridiculously long. The Twenty Eleven theme has over 2500 lines of css (unminified). That can be a pain if you’re trying to make significant adjustments to a theme. Quite a few theme frameworks take a more …
If you are developing sites on your own machine, you probably have run into a situation where you wanted to share what you’re working on with another person. Or, you want to test your locally hosted site on another device, …
If you have created a commercial or private plugin or theme and want to provide automatic updates for your product a number of solutions are available to you. With so many different avenues, which one is best for your project?…
CSS transitions are an exciting development in the world of web development, but it’s still a work in progress. I wanted to have a content block appear and hide on a hover event with pure CSS and a nice animation. …
While working on the user interface of the WordPress Plugin I’m building, I needed to have something akin to a drop down menu. A user clicks on a menu item, and a related list appears elsewhere on the page (in …
WordPress offers a number of ways to show an introduction to a post that then links to the full post. They are commonly used on the home page of a site, or in category archive pages when you don’t want …
CSS3 PIE is a fantastic tool to achieve support for CSS3 styles in versions of Internet Explorer, such as IE& and IE8. If you have been trying to include PIE with your WordPress project you might have had some problems …
If you work long hours at a computer, adjusting the brightness of the screen is a must to avoid eye strain and headaches. Especially during the winter when there is less natural light in the work space, continuous exposure to …