A Guide to Customizing WordPress Themes

WordPress is a very user-friendly platform and a great option for creating websites. It has loads of features and is easy to customize. One of the best ways to create a beautiful and professional-looking website is to use one of the thousands of WordPress themes available in the dashboard. WordPress Theme frameworks are a foundation …
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Creating a VS Code Theme

Everyone has special and perhaps, particular, tastes when it comes to their code editor. There are literally thousands of themes out there, and for good reason: a thing of beauty and enhancement to productivity for one can be a hindrance to another.

It’s been an item on my bucket list to create my own theme. I was coding very late the one night, well into the small hours of the morning. Everyone in my house was sleeping and so, as …

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40+ iMac Mockup PSDs, Photos & Vectors

The iconic iMac can provide a beautiful surround in which to display your work. And the web is filled with some amazing iMac mockup graphics which make it easy to drop in your own design. Whether your project relates to design or business, a high-quality mockup is always useful to showcase your work. Today, we […]
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Torque Toons: Git Clippy

The biggest story in tech this week is Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion. How do you think it will change the platform? Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!
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World wide wrist

After all the hubbub with WWDC over the past couple of days, Ethan Marcotte is excited about the news that the Apple Watch will be able to view web content.

He writes:

If I had to guess, I’d imagine some sort of “reader mode” is coming to the Watch: in other words, when you open a link on your Watch, this minified version of WebKit wouldn’t act like a full browser. Instead of rendering all your scripts, styles, and …

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Why Millions of Developers use JavaScript for Web Application Development

Over the past 20 years or so since when JavaScript was released, it has become the most popular programming language for web development today. You can understand the importance of JavaScript as a web development language from the fact that as per the recent reports, JavaScript is currently being used by more than 94 percent …
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Manipulating Pixels Using Canvas

Modern browsers support playing video via the <video> element. Most browsers also have access to webcams via the MediaDevices.getUserMedia() API. But even with those two things combined, we can’t really access and manipulate those pixels directly.

Fortunately, browsers have a Canvas API that allows us to draw graphics using JavaScript. We can actually draw images to the <canvas> from the video itself, which gives us the ability to manipulate and play with those pixels.

Everything you learn here about how …

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Headless CMS: The Developers’ Best Friend

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Your current CMS sucks! You know that for some time already but have not decided yet what your next solution should be.

You’ve noticed all the buzz around headless CMS but you’re still not sure what is in it for you and how it can solve all your woes.

What is the difference between traditional on-premise CMS with REST API and true API-first cloud based CMS? How does headless CMS fit to your scenarios? …

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​Headless CMS: Fresh Air for Developers

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Your current CMS sucks! You know that for some time already but have not decided yet what your next solution should be.

You’ve noticed all the buzz around headless CMS but you’re still not sure what is in it for you and how it can solve all your woes.

What is the difference between traditional on-premise CMS with REST API and true API-first cloud based CMS? How does headless CMS fit to your scenarios? …

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WPWeekly Episode 319 – The Gutenberg Plugin Turns 30

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Gary Pendergast, a WordPress core contributor, to discuss what’s new with Gutenberg. We find out what happened with WordPress 4.9.6, and discuss WordPress’ future. We also discuss Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub and when WordPress core development might transition to GitHub. (more…)
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