Service Worker Cookbook

I stumbled upon this site the other day from Mozilla that’s a collection of recipes to get started with a Service Worker — from caching strategies and notifications to providing an offline fallback to your users, this little cookbook has it all.

You can also check out our guide to making a simple site work offline and the offline site that resulted from it.

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The First Release of WordPress Turns 15 Years Old

This Sunday, May 27th, marks the 15th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. Users are celebrating the occasion across the world with huge cakes, cupcakes, memorable photos, parties, and meetups. Now that’s a cake! #wp15 pic.twitter.com/i8lAr4SLsO— WordPress Cape Town (@WPCapeTown) May 24, 2018 To see if there is an (more…)
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Server Issues That Affect WordPress (And What to Do About Them)

It’s a situation that we’ve all been through. You’ve just set up your WordPress page, everything looks great and you’re ready to go live and unveil your awesome website or blog. Instead of loading, you get the following message: Error establishing a database connection WordPress is a slick and intuitive system, but sometimes, errors can happen. And it’s …
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Learning Gutenberg: Building Our Custom Card Block

We’ve got some base knowledge, we’ve played with some React and now we’ve got our project tools set up. Let’s dive into building our custom block.

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  1. Series Introduction
  2. What is Gutenberg, Anyway?
  3. A Primer with create-guten-block
  4. Modern JavaScript Syntax
  5. React 101
  6. Setting up a Custom webpack
  7. A Custom “Card” Block (This Post)

What we’re building

We’re going to build a custom card block that features an image, a title and a summary. It’s a really common design pattern …

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Torque Toons: Solo Programming

Of course we have the newest Star Wars film on our mind, but we hope this joke doesn’t sound too forced. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!
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5 Psychological Design Tricks to Make Your WordPress Site Get Noticed

When creating a WordPress page, you think of its usability and visual components. You want more people to visit it and say “Wow!” But let’s face it, you want to convert, as well. Design and copywriting techniques do wonders, but sometimes you don’t see any logic behind users’ reactions to your website. You’ve put a …
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Learning Gutenberg: Setting up a Custom webpack Config

Gutenberg introduces the modern JavaScript stack into the WordPress ecosystem, which means some new tooling should be learned. Although tools like create-guten-block are incredibly useful, it’s also handy to know what’s going on under the hood.

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  1. Series Introduction
  2. What is Gutenberg, Anyway?
  3. A Primer with create-guten-block
  4. Modern JavaScript Syntax
  5. React 101
  6. Setting up a Custom webpack (This Post)
  7. A Custom “Card” Block (Coming Soon!)

The files we will be configuring here should be familiar from what we covered…

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Typographic Posters: 100 Stunning Examples

Typography is all about delivering art and information in a beautiful medium. Designing typographic posters is no easy task, and arranging and modifying each individual component is a skilled task. Not only that, special care has to be taken when it comes to the legibility and aesthetics of the fonts being used in the poster, choosing a […]
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