How do you stay relevant when your audience always changes? Just like fashion, film, and food, web design and UI are subject to an ever-changing set of standards and expectations. While you might sometimes want to cater to the crowd, having the know-how to create something that does the job and does it well is always… Continue reading 6 Principles for Timeless Web Design
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How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
I’m a big fan of the WP_Query class: I use it in many of my client sites to query and output content in custom ways. If you want to run multiple loops on a page, the easiest way to do it is to run WP_Query each time you need to run a loop. But there… Continue reading How to Code Multiple Loops While Only Querying the Database Once
WP REST API: Internals and Customization
In the previous part of the series, we learned about creating, updating, and deleting content remotely through the WP REST API. It allows us to create platform-independent applications that work seamlessly with a WordPress powered back-end, providing a rich experience to the user. In the current part of the series, we will take a look at… Continue reading WP REST API: Internals and Customization
20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins
Several WordPress versions ago, putting together an image gallery wasn’t the easiest thing to do, let alone a gallery of videos or products for sale. Today, however, there are many WordPress gallery plugins that are creative, powerful, and highly configurable. Sure, the Jetpack gallery is great in comparison to the early days of WordPress, but… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins
Weekly Inspiration: Comments, Discussion, and Feedback
In this age of content saturation on the web, one opportunity for online publishers to stand out is through their respective communities. The communities which surround and make use of websites are massively important, and how they interact with those websites, and each other, is equally important. We’re used to seeing comment threads on websites;… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Comments, Discussion, and Feedback
How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API
The first post in this series laid the groundwork for understanding taxonomies, terms, and their relationship within the context of WordPress. If you haven’t read it yet and you’re brand new to WordPress development, then I highly recommend reading through it as this post is going to build on top of everything covered in that… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API
Top Ten New, Free WordPress Themes of April 2016
1 – Activello Activello is the right theme for any private blog, as its design is appealing and tender. It can also be extended to become a shop, as it’s prepared for the popular WooCommerce plugin. Created by: Silkalns License: Free for private and commercial purposes | GNU General Public License Prepared for Language Localization: Yes Demo:… Continue reading Top Ten New, Free WordPress Themes of April 2016
Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Child Themes
A child theme is a set of styling guidelines and/or functions which are utilized to incorporate functionality or replace the appearance of an existing WordPress theme. Child themes can be modified without altering the original code of your theme, allowing you to make changes as small as changing a couple of colors, or as extensive… Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Child Themes
11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps
A wireframe is essentially a web designer’s plan for a web page. This frame can be hand-drawn with simple pen and paper, but wireframing tools are much more effective as they enable you to use drag-and-drop tools, collaborate with other designers and show clients your ideas before you even build them. The designer uses plain… Continue reading 11 of The Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for Planning Your Sites & Apps
How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies
In a recent series, we talked all about how we could work with metadata for several of the major classes in WordPress. This included: Throughout the series, we talked a bit about how WordPress 4.4 introduced the idea of term metadata. I didn’t want to present the concept within the context of that series because… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies
Personal Creative Portfolio, Blog and CV WordPress Theme
This is a creative WordPress theme for personal blog, review portal, magazine, portfolio, or CV / Vcard, perfect for designers, developers, photographers, fashion and lifestyle bloggers and other professionals who wish to showcase their works. The theme features 4 demo layouts (where you can also replace or remove elements), 4 predefined color schemes (that you… Continue reading Personal Creative Portfolio, Blog and CV WordPress Theme
20+ Best Baby and Kids WordPress Themes for Personal or Online Activities
This is the best collection of baby and kids WordPress themes.You know wordpress can be integrated into any type of business.With its functionality and easy to use features, WordPress is the best soluiton either for professionals or amateurs. Today millions of websites use WordPress as a content management system and why not start a new… Continue reading 20+ Best Baby and Kids WordPress Themes for Personal or Online Activities
14 Free Responsive WordPress Themes
In this post we are showcasing top 14 responsive WordPress theme. There is no doubt that WordPress is very popular, free and open-source content management software. All these wonderful and useful WordPress themes are easy to use, save your time; make your work easier for you and you can also make any change in it… Continue reading 14 Free Responsive WordPress Themes
20 Beautiful Resume WordPress Themes
Efficient. Creative. Innovative. These are just some of the words that people use just a little bit too often in creating resumes. Of course, nothing is wrong with these traits. They’re qualities that any employer would want to see in their own people. When you look at all other applications stacking up on those recruitment… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Resume WordPress Themes
How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
Throughout this series, we’ve looked at a number of the metadata APIs that are offered by WordPress. This includes the Post Meta API and the User Meta API. Today, we’re going to be rounding out the series by looking at the WordPress Comment Meta API. Note that this is that the final metadata API WordPress… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Comment Metadata
Looking to Code Your Designs? 9 Hand-Picked Services
Most website designers leave the coding to professional developers; since they have neither the time, the inclination, nor the necessary skills to do so themselves. Even designers who are proficient in coding, often prefer to leave the work up to professionals who they know will get the job done right. If you’re still fairly new… Continue reading Looking to Code Your Designs? 9 Hand-Picked Services
Multisite Enhancements in WordPress 4.4
I’m a big fan of WordPress Multisite: I use it to manage a small network of client sites, hold all of my demo sites in one place, and also run a network allowing people to create their own custom sites. So it’s always nice to see Multisite getting a bit of love when WordPress is… Continue reading Multisite Enhancements in WordPress 4.4
How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?
According to the most statistics that are recent on w3techs.com, significantly more than 89percent of sites presently utilize JavaScript as a client-side program writing language. As a cross-platform and programming that is lightweight, JavaScript makes it easier for programmers to build responsive websites and web applications that work with seamlessly with popular web browsers, operating… Continue reading How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?
8 Photography Portfolio Themes for WordPress
In this roundup we’ll take a look at some important things to consider when building an online photography portfolio with WordPress. We’ll go over eight tips and ideas, simultaneously looking at some top selling themes from Envato Market to help demonstrate each point. Say cheese! 1. Introduce Yourself Emotional design is hugely important on the… Continue reading 8 Photography Portfolio Themes for WordPress
20 Useful WordPress Calendar Plugins
The first thing I think of when I hear “WordPress” and “calendar” is the default calendar widget that displays WordPress Posts by date. But WordPress calendar plugins encompass a far greater—not to mention more powerful—array of plugins. There are calendar plugins for events, bookings, and appointments. Some transform WordPress into its own private working app,… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Calendar Plugins
How to Work With WordPress User Metadata
In the previous article, we discussed working with post metadata in WordPress using the provided APIs. We also covered a variety of tools, the ideas of security, and what would be required in order to set up the environment in which to work with the code that would be provided throughout the tutorial. If you… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress User Metadata
Weekly Inspiration: Discoverability and Feedback
Recently Vox, together with 99% Invisible, produced a brilliant short film about a door on the tenth floor of the Vox Media office. Besides many other doors, it featured Don Norman: design icon and celebrated author of The Design of Everyday Things. The purpose of the film was to highlight the usability of products and systems, whittling down… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Discoverability and Feedback
50+ fresh resources for designers, March 2016
How’s it going, compadres? This month’s roundup hand-picked from all across the web includes icons, design assets, illustrations, vector artwork, UI kits, some really cool code snippets, fonts, templates, some awesome tools, and much much more. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the best freebies on the Web this month! The months of the year vector… Continue reading 50+ fresh resources for designers, March 2016
How Welcoming are WordCamps to Women?
This month it’s International Women’s Day, a worldwide event designed to raise the under-representation of women in many walks of life and encourage us all to open up more opportunities to women and girls. I thought it would be a good opportunity to take a look at gender diversity at WordCamps, and compare these with… Continue reading How Welcoming are WordCamps to Women?