With just the right combination of blur and transparency, you’ve got one of the hottest trends in website and app design – the frosted glass effect. It is a design technique that uses a gaussian blur, shadows, and transparency to create an element that mimics looking through real-life frosted glass. Let’s dive into seven different…
Last week, I reached out to several members of the core WordPress committers to see if we could get an official word on whether Classic Editor support would continue beyond the mere months it seemingly had left to live. I received a semi-official answer but was asked to hold off on publishing for a more…
When it comes to streamlining a process, nothing beats a good old-fashioned flow chart. They are especially useful in presentations for showcasing your projects, ideas, and products as well. In this post, we bring you some of the best flow chart templates for PowerPoint and Word for presenting your workflows in visual form. Whether you’re…
Earlier this week, websevendev released its fourth WordPress plugin to the official directory named Block Attributes. The extension allows end-users to add any HTML attribute to nearly any block. One of the problems with the WordPress editor is that it can be a bit fussy about customizing HTML. Blocks are built on a set of…
Expanded Button Formatting, New Spacing Controls, and Drag-and-Drop for List View Now in Block Editor This month, our team released features in the block editor that give your site a little breathing room: spacing controls for buttons and paragraphs. And the List View tool keeps getting better with drag-and-drop. Powerful Expanded Button Formatting Buttons never looked…
There’s a fine art to creating a great PowerPont presentation that wows. With so many tricks and features in this little bit of software, it’s more likely to see a bad presentation than a good one (and you don’t want to be that person!) While there are a lot of factors that contribute to the…
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has released version 5.10, the first major release since the plugin was acquired by Delicious Brains. It introduces several new features that were previously experimental, closing out tickets that were started by previous owner Elliot Condon. The release enables HTML escaping by default, which helps prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. It…
It’s the chicken and egg debate of website design: What comes first “good design” or functional design? Both answers are right… and wrong. Unlike much of what we share on Design Shack, this is more of a personal essay on the benefits of each type of thinking and why I’ll design with function over “good…
In December 2020, WordPress launched its new “Learn” platform with free courses, workshops, and lesson plans. Since then, the Training Team has continued adding more material. The latest proposal is an open discussion for the community on adding participatory badges for completing coursework. “I’d like to nail down what kind of thing we would like…
A branded letterhead design is a must-have for every business and professional. Today, we bring you a collection of business letterhead templates to find the right design for your business. Whether you write letters by hand, print them out, or send them digitally, custom letterheads allow you to maintain professionalism with a branded design. Even…
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