Focus traps are an important—often misunderstood—keyboard navigation pattern. While their main appeal is improving accessibility, they also improve the user experience for everyone. They keep users where they want to be, avoiding confusion and disorientation. This article is primarily about …
Design patterns are useful solutions to common problems that someone might face when designing software. The Singleton Pattern is one such design pattern that can be employed in your software. It falls into the creational category as parts of its pattern set …
In WordPress 5.0 the block editor – created by the Gutenberg experience – was bundled directly in core. It was released in December 2018 and since then the Gutenberg Editor has continued evolving and being bundled with Core – new …
Theme Developers can use WordPress Post Formats to provide special handling for certain types of post content. It makes it easy for developers to handle the different types and provides an easy menu for users to select which type they …
WordPress has recently bumped the minimum recommended PHP version from 5.2 up to 5.6, solidified by this commit accepting failures for older php version in the automated test suite. Themes for the wordpress.org directory are required to work (or gracefully …
I see a lot of sites using Bootstrap and many of them use additional plugins to make their popups. This post walks you through making a plugin to add Bootstrap 4 popups to your WordPress site. You can grab a …
This is follow on to my adventures putting Docker containers into production. The previous article covered building WordPress containers for production. This article deals with how you would run multiple WordPress instances on a single host – by using a …
This series charts the ups and downs of putting WordPress containers into production. I’ve been using Docker on my local development machine for some time. It makes it easy to start, stop and rebuild development environments in seconds and have …
This guide will walk you through the basics of building a Grunt WordPress Theme. Starting with installing Node and getting Grunt into your theme directory. Then installing plugins & configuring tasks to work on your WordPress theme files. At the …
Docker is a container engine capable of encapuslating applications into a package capable of being deployed anywhere and have it operate in the expected way. Getting up and running with Docker on Ubuntu is a straightforward process that takes less …