Choosing the Best Font for PowerPoint: 10 Tips & Examples

There’s a fine art to creating a great PowerPont presentation that wows. With so many tricks and features in this little bit of software, it’s more likely to see a bad presentation than a good one (and you don’t want to be that person!) While there are a lot of factors that contribute to the […]
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Learning Gutenberg: What is Gutenberg, Anyway?

Gutenberg is the new React-driven SPA editing experience in WordPress. Oh wait, a string of buzzwords doesn’t count for a viable explanation of software? We’re going to unpack that string of buzzwords as we explain what Gutenberg is.

Article Series:

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

First, a before-and-after screenshot …

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Learning Gutenberg: Series Introduction

Hey CSS-Tricksters! 👋 We have a special long-form series we’re kicking off here totally dedicated to Gutenberg, a major change to the WordPress editor. I’ve invited a dynamic duo of authors to bring you this series, which will bring you up to speed on what Gutenberg is, what it can do for your site, and how you can actually develop for it.

Who this is for

This series is more for developers who are curious about this new world …

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Foreword for CSS In Depth

Keith Grant recently released a brand new book on CSS: CSS in Depth. If you’re looking for a book focused specifically on learning CSS, you’ve found it. I was happy to write the foreword for it, which I’ll republish here.


“A minute to learn… A lifetime to master.” That phrase might feel a little trite these days, but I still like it. It was popularized in modern times by being the tagline for the board game Othello. In Othello, …

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Custom List Number Styling

How about a classic CSS trick! This isn’t even so tricky anymore, since CSS has counter-increment and counter-reset and such that is perfect for this. I just wanted to make sure you knew how it works and had some easy-to-copy examples at the ready.

Let’s say all you wanna do is style the dang numbers:

See the Pen Custom List Style 2 by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

Here’s an example from the CodePen Challenges pages:

See …

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Plugin Review Team to Close Unused Plugins

The thousands of plugins in the repository are what make WordPress so powerful. With these plugins, you can mold the CMS into anything you need; finding and downloading any capability you might need to make your site work for you. However, not all of these plugins are being used. The WordPress.org Plugin Review Team announced …
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Build Nodejs APIs Using Serverless

Simona Cotin did a great talk at Microsoft Build about Serverless technologies, called “Build Node APIs Using Serverless.” In this talk, she addresses pretty much every major gotcha that you might run into while creating Serverless infrastructure for JavaScript applications. Some of the topics included, but are not limited to:

  • CORS
  • Local Debugging with VS Code
  • Installing npm packages
  • Configuring REST-like URLs
  • Saving environment variables

All in all, it’s one of the best talks on Serverless I’ve seen, and if …

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What You Should Do Before Changing Your Theme

One of the benefits of WordPress is the ability to change themes as often as you want. You can use themes and plugins to extend the functionality of your website so that you can get the site of your dreams, and with thousands of themes in the WordPress repository and elsewhere, there is practically no …
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