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This is the first part of a two-part series on creating a Gulp workflow for WordPress theme development. This first part covers a lot of ground for the initial setup, including Gulp installation and an outline of the tasks we want it to run. If you’re interested in how the tasks are created, then stay tuned for part two.

Earlier this year, I created a course for building premium WordPress themes. During the process, I wanted to use a …

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One thing that has long surprised (and saddened) me is that the clip-path property, as awesome as it is, only takes a few values. The circle() and ellipse() functions are nice, but hiding overflows and rounding with border-radius generally helps there already. Perhaps the most useful value is polygon() because it allows us to draw a shape out of straight lines at arbitrary points.

Here’s a demo of each value:

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Codrops has a very nice article on CSS Shapes from Tania Rascia. You might know shape-outside is for redefining the area by which text is floated around that element, allowing for some interesting design opportunities. But there are a couple of genuine CSS tricks in here:

1. Float shape-outside elements both right and left to get text to flow between them.
2. You can set shape-outside to take an image and use shape-image-threshold to adjust where the text flows, meaning you could

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