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I am an enormous fan of WordPress. After all, I run several businesses off of it.
I recently stumbled upon a feature in Chrome’s Inspector Tools which is extremely handy for web developers.
Previously, I had been resizing my browser window to mimic what each web page would look like on mobile devices to see how my responsive design was working.
However, there’s a much better way. If you click on the mobile phone icon, a new display comes up showing the size of a mobile device display and how the page will look on that device.
This past weekend was WordCamp Tampa: the first of its kind, and I wanted to jot down a few takeaways, both as an attendee and as a speaker.
Last week, I finished my Trial at Automattic. While I wasn’t successful in my bid to work for a company that I hugely admire, I appreciate the experience and insight that I was able to gain from my few weeks working with them.
I’ve been toying with the idea of giving up engineering as my career and moving into web development full-time, as I’m enjoying it a lot more.
My plan had been to do freelancing full-time, but to give up a steady professional salary and benefits for the uncertainty of freelancing is daunting. If someone could pay my salary for 6 months while I build up my workload and client list, I could easily earn well in excess of what I make as a professional engineer. However, I haven’t had any applications for someone willing to do that for me.
So when I read that my friend Dustin Hartzler had recently landed himself a job at Automattic, it turned on a light bulb in my head. I started considering whether I wanted to work for Automattic, and the more I read, the more I wanted to jump right in (I’ll explore the benefits of working for Automattic later).
The visual editor in WordPress is generally very good and helpful, but if you have code or special formatting on some of your posts, the visual editor can sometimes screw up the formatting.
This little snippet solves that by defaulting to the text (HTML) editor every time you open a post, while retaining the ability to use the visual editor if needed.
Some plugins add additional buttons to the WordPress editor to make life easier for functions such as entering a shortcode into the text editor without the user having to remember the syntax, or applying a specific style to a selected portion of text and this guide shows you how to do with relative ease.
These CSS3 Background Patterns are excellent for quickly applying a bit of texture to a background without overloading the page with background images.
Today was WordSesh, a 24-hr event with the finest in the WordPress community giving 1-hr talks on a subject of their choice.
The organisers have already put all of the talks online and created a playlist for you to watch them all or pick and choose the ones that interest you most.
I was recently enticed to come up with a set of test data for WordPress, to exhaustively test new themes. Most data sets didn’t seem to have enough of all the different formats that you can have in WordPress, particularly when it came to post formats.
Luckily, someone beat me to the punch and created wptest.io, which does exactly that, so I’m off the hook.
