Jetpack 6.0 Takes Steps Towards GDPR Compliance

Jetpack 6.0 is available for upgrade. It comes with improvements to the social media icons widget, enhanced brute force protection, and better compatibility between WooCommerce and Jetpack. Its headlining features though are privacy related as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to go into effect May 25th. In (more…)
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Designing Button States

Tyler Sticka on the complexity of designing buttons and making sure that we’ve taken into consideration focus, hover and active states during the design process:

In truth, mouse effects are probably the least important state to design for. By accounting for more functional states early, you can lower the need for costly redesigns as your pattern library matures. Here are the fundamental states you should address early on, in approximate order of importance.

I’ve been spending a lot more time …

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Static File Hosting Doesn’t Have To Be So… Static

A huge high-five and welcome to Netlify for the sponsorship this week.

If you haven’t heard of Netlify, the big thing you should know is that it’s web hosting, but more than that. It’s web hosting with the developer workflow squarely at heart. You can spin up a site on Netlify in literally seconds. One way is through their robust CLI. Another way, that I find very comfortable (and just did the other day), is to log into the Netlify …

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Creating Themeable Design Systems

Brad frost picks up the ongoing conversation about design systems. Where many posts seem to center on how to create one and how to enforce it, the big takeaway here is that design systems are not synonymous with constraints. They’re only as strict as we make them and new CSS features like custom properties actually open up new creative possibilities—something Andres Galante and Cliff Pyles recently pitched right here on CSS-Tricks.

Brad:

The aesthetic layer is often the most malleable …

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WordPress Plugins: How to Know When to Install Or When to Avoid

We all know it, WordPress plugins are one of the biggest advantages that WordPress offers. But they can also be the greatest weakness when it comes to using the CMS. Using WordPress plugins effectively is highly dependent on two things. One is the source from which you get your WordPress plugin and the second is …
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A Quick Way to Remember the Difference Between `justify-content` and `align-items`

I was talking with a pal the other day and moaning about flexbox for the millionth time because I had momentarily forgotten the difference between the justify-content and align-items properties.

“How do I center an element horizontally with flex again?” I wondered. Well, that was when she gave me what I think is the best shorthand way of remembering how the two work together.

She said that justify-content positions elements across the horizontal axis because the word itself is longer …

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​The future of data collection is here

(This is a sponsored post.)

Who said collecting data was easy? JotForm did. In today’s world, getting relevant data has never been more important for making informed business decisions. The thing is, companies still struggle with it because the forms they use for gathering information don’t typically resonate with their customers. Until now that is. With JotForm’s newest format, JotForm Cards, your online forms have all the same power of traditional forms, but with added benefits: they’re friendlier, sleeker, …

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40+ Stunning Vintage Mockup Packs & Graphics

Vintage design is all about presentation. You may have spent hours designing a vintage logo or a layout for your client, but in order to fully reap the rewards of your hard work, you’ll want to present it in a vintage mockup template. All of these examples help to showcase the design you’ve poured time and attention […]
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