The skinny: We fixed missed-schedule posts by reducing the site’s code landscape, examining the hosting environment, and implemented a three-prong, bulletproof approach to ensuring posts publish on time. In the process we also trimmed megabytes of render-blocking CSS and JavaScript, changing the site’s performance measured by Google Lighthouse from 17 to 75. So, that’s nice….
So, you’re doing some WordPress AJAX. And maybe you’re serializing your form data into an array of objects. JSON.stringify() and fire that into wp-ajax.php. And maybe you console.log‘d it to verify it’s an array of objects… Cool. Maybe it looked like this (i.e. an array of objects): But then in functions.php, you json_decode() your lovely…
Don’t want a bloated framework you have to learn/master just to be able to build a robust site structure that breaks down nicely into RWD (responsive web design)? We don’t either. For most projects we use a few simple reusable CSS classes to make RWD much easier. Frameworks like HTML5 boilerplate or Zurb’s foundation are…
The “generator” meta tag can be removed with one simple line of PHP. Nice. We love WordPress. A lot. It’s amazing. But we won’t to blast out to the world our WordPress version number so that spam/malware bots will quickly find us. (They’ll still find us/you and our clients, but removing the generator tag can…
Prefer to load jQuery from Google rather than enqueue it from WordPress’ Core? Yeah, we do too. There are many benefits to loading jQuery from Google’s CDN (Content Delivery Network): It’s likely a user previously visited a site that relied on the jQuery version your calling, which means they’ll have it cached already. If they…
Do you want to style the WordPress Admin area without modifying WordPress core CSS files? So did we. Hacking WordPress core files is bad, because the hacks would be overwritten on the next WP update. (Son of a…!) But by placing this snippet in your theme’s functions.php file, these rules will stay intact on each…
Does the Admin bar in WP 3.x annoy you as well? Yeah, us too. Place the code below in your theme’s functions.php file and say goodbye to the Admin bar. This will not only disable the bar for any users, it also removes the preferences option in WordPress’ Admin area.
Just some simple code to prevent WordPress from notifying about updates for plugins or WordPress’ core. No plugin needed! We use this snippet on every site we build so that the client doesn’t auto update a plugin or the WordPress core without first testing. Updates are great, but if you don’t have a proper testing…
Did ya see Flickr’s new UI? Some users rejoice, some blogs tout its updated design merits, and designer/developers like me run to see what they’ve done to bring it up to date. At first glance… It’s pretty. It’s full-screen, image-centric, responsive, and their catchy homepage incorporates some nice parallax movement (since I can never remember…
Even for the most basic of websites, it can be tough to pick and choose what content to include. As contrary as it may seem, keeping your site simple is sometimes anything but. To help you get started, I’ve broken down the basic content every website should have, as well the content you really don’t need….