Wordpress action and filter hooks are what makes Wordpress incredibly extendable. These hooks are very easy to use if someone else has already wrote them, and you just had to hook something in. Understanding how they work is another matter entirely.
In this post, I’m going to walk you through my personal understanding of Wordpress action and filer hooks after a few hours of experiments.
A theme bought off the marketplace can never be 100% what you intended your website to look like. There are always small things that you want to change.
Travis asked me a question on finding out where to edit Wordpress theme’s CSS files and I thought I’d just share it you.
If you had bought a Wordpress theme and wanted to change how the website looks in some areas, this post is for you.
A couple of days ago Chris Coyier’s post regarding Grunt JS on the 24ways blog got me interested in playing with Grunt JS again. I’ve tried tinkering with Grunt but I never gotten it to work correctly for me. After reading Chris’s post and two more days of tinkering, I manage to come up with a configuration have helped hasten my wordpress development dramatically.
We have gone through the absolute basics to Susy in the previous week and looked at how to create complete layout grids simply just by using the span column mixin.
In this post, we’re going to explore other parts of Susy that lets you easily push or pull your content block left or right. I’ll also share with you how responsiveness is built straight into the Susy framework.
Lets begin by looking at some of the padding and margins mixins available to us.
Susy is a plugin to Compass that allows you to create customizable grid frameworks easily. It makes responsive design extremely easy by removing the need to manually calculate widths.
If you need to create repsonsive websites do not want to constrain your design with available frameworks out in the open, Susy might be the perfect answer.
This is the first of a two part tutorial that covers the basics of Susy.
In this tutorial, we are going to install Susy, set up Susy defaults and understand how to create the 10-column complex nested grid AG test found on the susy website.
I mentioned how I felt that Color Picker and Palette Galleries hinders our workflow process in my previous post and I thought I’d just complement that post with a few tools that I find are exceptionally useful.
Color is one complicating element that is very difficult to get correct when designing. While scouring the web in search for methods to learn select colors for my designs, I inevitably find many articles about picking colors with tools such as Adobe Kuler, palette galleries like COLOURlovers.
While all these are great methods, they ironically may hinder our learning and workflow much more than they help…
People who have used Wordpress for ages all say that it is extremely to use. Those who are new to wordpress, however, dont usually think that way when they first set their eyes on the backend.
I felt the same way when I first started with Wordpress. Stuff just gets easier and easier to do overtime and I learnt more becoming a theme developer.
In this post, I’ll like to share with you the very basics of setting up a wordpress, and talk about 5 critical things you need to know to use Wordpress.
After knowing these, the things such as changing your navigation menu and creating a post would be a walk in the park.
Let’s jump into this real quick.
Learning anything from scratch isn’t a problem. In the beginning, milestones between each difficulty level are small and it is easy to get a sense of accomplishment for each small step you take.
After one or two weeks, “reality” sets in. It becomes increasingly difficult to hit the next milestone. Sometimes people just forget the initial enthusiam they. Sometimes, they become “too busy”. Most people give up on learning at this stage. Some persist for another month or two before giving up. Yet, others continue to learn and thereafter begin to excel in whatever they do. Is there a secret in learning?
Over the last half a year, I have gone from knowing nothing about designing and coding, to building two wordpress themes and I am still learning. My motivation is still strong.
In this post, I would like to share with you how I view learning after persevering for 6 months and how I kept my motivation levels up.
It is very common to have to change CSS codes midway in a design at some point or another. Because of the way most CSS codes are structured, it is usually painful to sieve through the whole code and look for the particular area where you would like changed.
Whats more, if colors or text sizes have to be changed, it can be disastrous if you miss out on a few elements and an absolute headache if you can’t find where they’re located
In this article, I’m going to introduce one simple add-on that really helped me with organizing and changing my CSS codes.