Source: Getting WordPress Term Results that are Relative to a Different Taxonomy | CSS-Tricks
Tag: resources
WordPress and Automating – Using Gulp for WordPress Automation
Gulp can help you automate daily routine tasks. In this article you will see basic stuff you can automate doing WordPress development. Lets see how gulp can save you a healthy amount of time every day and improve the quality of your product too. | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Short; Tags: WordPress, CMS, Web Development, JavaScript, WordPress Plugins
Source: Using Gulp for WordPress Automation – Tuts+ Code Tutorial
CSS4 Selectors
At the time of writing, very few, if any, of these selectors are available in browser. However, it’s good to know which selectors have been chosen for future versions of CSS.
CSS4 introduces many new selectors and features. Learn how to use each one, with easy to understand explanations and examples.
WordPress › WordPress 4.2.1 Security Release
Important XSS security update to WordPress, be sure to update all of your sites right now if you don’t have auto updates on.
The Deal with WordPress Transients | CSS-Tricks
Great article on CSS-Tricks about using and dealing with WordPress Transients. Covers setting and retrieving them as well as other WordPress Transient tips and tricks.
[WordPress] Resource – Loading Parent Styles for Child Themes
The always insightful Justin Tadlock has posted a great post on how best to handle stylesheets in child themes. Though there are many options for this, including the infamous @import technique, Justin recommends loading the styles directly from the parent theme itself. It’s a simple but effective solution that should work for 99% of cases.
Resource – Auto Prefixer
Fantastic library to parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to CSS rules. Supports Grunt, Gulp, and many other libraries/tools.
Resource – Responsinator
A simple website for testing device widths for the most common Apple and Android devices. Remember – it’s no replacement for actually testing on these devices along with as many widths and breakpoints as possible. Also remember, device-agnostic responsive sites should be the true goal. However, for basic development and simple testing this is a nice resource.
Resource – SweetAlert JavaScript Plugin
A nice alternative to using the ol’ and ugly default Javascript alert box. Allows multiple options and callbacks while staying small and simple.
Resource – Intro to Grunt by Chris Coyier on 24 Ways
Link:
http://24ways.org/2013/grunt-is-not-weird-and-hard/
Description:
Fantastic resource on getting started with Grunt.js. Practical implementations of script concats, minimizing, and automation. Recommend as a simple resource and starting template for many common web site tasks.
Notes:
- The concat plugin will combine files in the order given, or in the order the search parameters reveal. Make sure you’re loading scripts dependencies first.
- http://gruntjs.com/
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-concat
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-uglify