Torque Toons: WordPressFreedomDay

Did anyone else get excited when they thought WordPress Freedom Day was a thing? The real thing, World Press Freedom Day sounds pretty awesome though. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!
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Using WordPress To Create Awesome Promo Code Websites

Even though it’s one of the most popular platforms on the web, there are still a lot of people who are unsure about using WordPress. For some, it’s because they feel intimidated by the prospect of using it, while others simply think that it wouldn’t fulfill what they are trying to achieve. For those who …
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Responsive Knockout Text With Looping Video

Here’s an idea! Let’s make an an HTML <video> play inside the shape of some letters. Like “Knockout Text” except instead of an image behind, it’s video. A live demo will explain more clearly:

See the Pen basic pen by Giulio Mainardi (@mgiulio) on CodePen.

A key objective here is to develop this responsively. The idea is to not only scale the video in size to fit the parent container (as video generally does), but scale the …

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​Incapsula DDoS Resiliency Score

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Managing Heading Levels In Design Systems

Heydon Pickering looks into how to give a React component a certain heading (like <h1>, <h2>, etc.) depending on its context and thereby ensure that the DOM is still perfectly accessible for screen readers. Why is using the right heading important though? Heydon writes in the intro:

One thing that keeps coming back to me, in research, testing, and everyday conversation with colleagues and friends, is just how important headings are. For screen reader users, headings describe the …

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20+ Best Cursive & Script Fonts

If you’re looking for a different type of a font to make your design stand out, a cursive font can be a great choice. Cursive and script fonts aren’t new, but they’re a less common choice for many designers. This gives you a chance to use cursive fonts to add some originality to your next […]
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Code Review Part 3 – Building & Refactoring the Posts Generator

In the last article, I walked you through a code review and refactoring process for the FilterWPQuery class in Josh Pollock’s plugin.  We made his class more readable and performant. But we did not cover the posts generator code in the getPosts() method; rather, I left that review for this article. Why? There are two reasons. First, …
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Container-Adapting Tabs With “More” Button

Or the priority navigation pattern, or progressively collapsing navigation menu. We can name it in at least three ways.

There are multiple UX solutions for tabs and menus and each of them have their own advantages over another, you just need to pick the best for the case you are trying to solve. At design and development agency Kollegorna we were debating on the most appropriate UX technique for tabs for our client’s website…

We agreed it should be a …

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How to Customize a Website Mockup Template

A website mockup template can be a design life-saver. It makes it easy to show off a website design concept in a setting that represents actual use (on many different devices). But how can you customize a website mockup template and drop in your own design? Here’s how. There are two ways to get started. […]
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WordSesh 5 Scheduled for July 25th

After not having an event in 2017, WordSesh, a virtual WordPress conference, is returning July 25th. The event is being organized by Brian Richards, Founder of WPSessions and a collection of partners.  The schedule is online and like previous events, there is a mixture of sessions and live podcasts. Based on (more…)
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