ClassicPress: Gutenberg Not Included

Depending on how far and deep you look, there is not a lot of positive sentiment surrounding Gutenberg. For Scott Bowler, the notion of merging Gutenberg into WordPress 5.0 represents a shift so detrimental to the project, he has forked WordPress into a new project called ClassicPress. “The team at (more…)
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Drupal.org Migrates Developer Tools to GitLab

The Drupal Association announced this week that Drupal.org will be migrating its developer tools to GitLab. In selecting a partner for modernizing the project’s tooling, the association aimed to preserve the most valuable parts of Drupal’s workflow. They also wanted a partner that would keep evolving its code collaboration featureset. (more…)
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CSS Logical Properties

A property like margin-left seems fairly logical, but as Manuel Rego Casasnovas says:

Imagine that you have some right-to-left (RTL) content on your website your left might be probably the physical right, so if you are usually setting margin-left: 100px for some elements, you might want to replace that with margin-right: 100px.

Direction, writing mode, and even flexbox all have the power to flip things around and make properties less logical and more difficult to maintain than you’d hope. …

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Doc Pop News Drop: Should Developers Block Gutenberg From Client Sites?

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. A recent thread on Reddit.com/r/WordPress sparked some good conversation about how website developers should handle the upcoming Gutenberg editor changes coming to WordPress. Many developers were …
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Top WordPress Plugins for 2018: White Paper

WordPress is the most powerful and customizable CMS on the market, powering over 30 percent of the web. This is due largely in part to the nearly 60,000 plugins available to download. Though that number speaks to the thousands of functions you can perform, it can also seem very daunting. That’s a lot to choose …
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How to Leverage Email Marketing for Better Blog Readership

Blogging and email marketing are two channels that aren’t always automatically used together – be it by companies with commercial blogs or full-time bloggers. But when it comes to having and growing a blog, using your email database in a smart way can make the difference between the success or stagnation of your readership. Regardless …
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20+ Best Fonts for Flyers

When it comes to flyer design, choosing the right font can make a big difference. This collection of the best fonts for flyers can help you find a unique typeface for your next design project. Whether you’re working on a flyer design for a business event, a party, a music festival, or a club event, […]
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ABeamer: a frame-by-frame animation framework

In a recent post, Zach Saucier demonstrated the awesome things that the DOM allows us to do, thanks to the <canvas> element. Taking a snapshot of an element and manipulating it to create an exploding animation is pretty slick and a perfect example of how far complex animations have come in the last few years.

ABeamer is a new animation ecosystem that takes advantage of these new concepts. At the core of the ecosystem is the web browser animation …

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“Old Guard”

Someone asked Chris Ferdinandi what his biggest challenge is as a web developer:

… the thing I struggle the most with right now is determining when something new is going to change the way our industry works for the better, and when it’s just a fad that will fade away in a year or three.

I try to avoid jumping from fad to fad, but I also don’t want to be that old guy who misses out on something that’s …

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Oakley Capital to Acquire cPanel

cPanel, the makes of control panel software used by many hosting providers across the globe, has announced it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Oakley Capital. Oakley Capital is a private equity investor that invests in companies primarily located in Western Europe. Financial details of the impending acquisition (more…)
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