The 5 Best Related Posts Plugins For WordPress To Engage Your Visitors

March 27, 2018design tips
You probably spend a ton of time and effort trying to get more visitors to your WordPress site. But despite all that hard work, a good chunk of those visitors bounce away, perhaps never to return. That’s why, beyond simply getting visitors to your site, you need to do everything possible to keep them engaged …
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6 Unique Notebooks for Designers

March 27, 2018design tips
Some of the best ideas start with a pencil and paper. That’s why it’s a good idea to always have a sketchpad or notebook nearby to record those ideas when inspiration strikes. How you use those concepts and sketches can determine what kind of notebook is best for you. (I actually have several go-to notebook […]
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On Paid Newsletters: An Interview With Adam Roberts of SitePoint’s Versioning

March 27, 2018design tips

You don’t often think of email as something you pay to get. If anything, most people would pay to get less of it. Of course, there are always emails you like to get and opt into on purpose. We have a newsletter right here on CSS-Tricks that we really try to make worth reading. It’s free, like the vast majority of email newsletters. We hope it helps a bit with engagement and we make it worth doing financially by showing …

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Doc Pop’s News Drop: Are Developers Responsible When a Plugin Breaks a Site?

March 26, 2018design tips
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. There’s a great conversation on r/Wordpress (lowercasing is their theirs) about what happens when a plugin update breaks a clients site. Is it the developers job …
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Compressive Images Revisited

March 26, 2018design tips

Tim Kadlec returns to the topic of how to make images on the web as performant as possible and looks at the technique called “Compressive Images” which is now not recommended for a bunch of reasons. Tim summarizes his point here:

By now the trade-off is pretty clear. Compressive images give us a reduced file size, but it greatly increases the memory footprint. Thanks to the standards that have been developed around responsive images, it’s a trade-off we no longer …

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The Facebook Algorithm Change 2018: What it Means for Your Marketing

March 26, 2018design tips
We are in for yet another Facebook algorithm change. When Mark Zuckerberg announced that the platform would start prioritizing news feed content differently, it didn’t go down too well with marketers. Especially since he explicitly stated that “you’ll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media” in favor of “meaningful conversations.” What …
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20+ Best iPad Pro Mockups

March 26, 2018design tips
There’s no better device than the iPad Pro to showcase your design with a touch of professionalism. This collection includes our picks of the absolute best free and premium iPad Pro mockups, all in one place. Ever since its release, many creatives and professionals have fallen in love with the iPad Pro. A larger screen, […]
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React Code Style Guide

March 26, 2018design tips

I’ve been having the time of my life with React lately. But on my journey, I’ve had a hard time finding good code style guidelines to keep the mix of JSX and JS clean and readable. I’ve been coming up with my own style guides that I’d love to share. Maybe these will be useful to you and, of course, feel free to share similar guidelines in the comment thread below.

Rule #1: Destructure your props

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A CSS Approach to Trap Focus Inside of an Element

March 26, 2018design tips

I recently read this article by Keith Grant which introduced the newly arrived <dialog>. Excited by this new UI element, I immediately sat down to experiment with it to see how it can be used effectively as a modal — the most common use of it. While experimenting, I discovered a neat CSS trick on how to trap focus within the <dialog> element, a common accessibility requirement for modals, and a notoriously difficult one.

Disclaimer: The <dialog> demos in …

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