How subtly cool is it when an app keeps a record of when something was submitted or edited, it's even more when this updates in real time! In this example we are going to create a simple commenting app called 'yadayadayada' – basically it will just be the comments section on a blog post. Firstly […]
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Out of the box Shopify is pretty fast but it can be improved – in some cases halving the website loading time, this usually translates to more money for the shop owner – but you already know this 😉 Start with fonts Page weight before this step: 1.8mb This is probably (hopefully) fixed on more
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Ah styling placeholders, something that should be pretty simple is made complex by the 4 (last time counted) browser prefixes you need to add. Sass can really help abstract away a lot of this heavy lifting. I wanted to build a mixin that allows me to update specific placeholders, for example my header might have
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Ok so at this stage in my life I have two things I spend a lot of time doing: Making WordPress websites and mobile apps that use the WP-API Listening to hip hop music Anyone who keeps up with hip hop is probably aware of the divide that is being created between this newest generation
Is Gutenberg dividing the WordPress community like Mumble Rap divides the Rap community? Read More »
I had a client who had users report an issue with the website on iPhone and Macbooks – apparently the screen was just flashing and nothing was working. Ok I quickly jumped on an iPhone (7) and had a look, all pages worked fine. The issue must be on their end I thought. Then I
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We thoroughly recommend Google Apps for our clients looking for a cost effective system for emails, docs and storage (via drive). Google drive is also a very secure way to store files, in fact with their history view you can restore deleted files etc. But google drive is not bulletproof. We’ve seen the following happen:
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I was asked by a client to make a modal popup for a product when the thumbnail was clicked on, as part of this popup they wanted the product to show some text letting the user know if it was in stock or not. I have been doing a bit of react.js work recently and
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We have been doing a lot of WordPress development recently (2-3 sites/apps/projects / week) and one thing we can’t stand is manually creating pages to fill out a site. You know the types: About us, contact etc. Its really painful, especially since you need to do a couple of page reloads to create a page
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Hooking bootstrap is pretty easy and gives you an awesome result. The only part that is tricky is the navigation, fortunately smarter people than myself have already figured this out. I suggest you take a look at this tutorial on using bootstrap navs with WP: Integrating bootstrap and Worpdress menus The only problem with these
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A couple of clients of mine seemed to have some serious problems with their wordpress sites starting from last friday. At first they seemed to be unrelated but by the end of the day I had noticed that they all had the following in common: This issue was only occuring on Chrome The site when
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