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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if you’re a WordPress user, you need to become familiar with JavaScript. That’s just the way of the web. The real issue, then, is the disturbing number of JavaScript libraries you have to sort through. There’s Ember, React,...
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You get updates to iOS or Android on your smartphones. Gamers get new content patches for World of Warcraft or Call of Duty. WordPress plugins and themes get new features. The software that you use every single day gets updated periodically. When it does, a changelog is published that show you...
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If you are going to be a podcaster, then you have to use iTunes to distribute your podcast. There really is no way around it. Apple’s service not only originated the terminology and technology of podcasting (broadcasting for an iPod), but it has since remained the defacto podcast hub. Around...
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Blubrry is awesome. Far more than a delicious fruit rich in antioxidants or the name of what I dream Violet Beauregard would call a new tech start-up, Blubrry is the parent company of the scrumdiddlyumptious PowerPress plugin that gives WordPress audiophiles full control of their audio...
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The word wiki has come a long way from when it was best known as the opening lyric to a ‘90s Will Smith song. Outside of the wild, wild west, a wiki is a collaborative knowledge base, an encyclopedia of curated, cited, and cross-referenced information. Obviously, the megasite Wikipedia is the...
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PHP is the backbone of WordPress (~70% of the source code is in PHP), and that means for aspiring WordPress developers, there’s not much of a choice of what programming language to learn. (JavaScript is really the other major player, making up the other third of the codebase.) So you’re...
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Web design trends change all the time. By the time you find a designer you can work with, decide on a look everyone can agree with, get the work done, and finally go live, what’s cool and fresh and trendy has changed. Enter brutalist websites. What’s that, you ask? It’s when you...
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You cannot escape JavaScript. For years, I felt like JS was the horror-movie villain that just wouldn’t give up. I tried to avoid it. I ran, scrambled, and hid. But, like Jason Voorhees, it found me. Seriously, though, the reality is that if you’re working in web development or design these...
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The WordPress community is absurdly large, which should be expected when you consider WP makes up nearly one-third of the internet. It should come as no surprise, then, that there is a worldwide series of conferences called WordCamps that are designed specifically for your networking and...
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The terminal and command line prompts are terrifying to a lot of computer users. Instead of double- and/or right-clicking an icon, you type out what you want the computer to do. In theory, using the command line prompts and the terminal is simple. But like I always told my students, simple is not...
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One would think that purchasing a domain name is a relatively simple process. Go to Google, type in “best place to purchase domain name,” clickity-clickity, and you’re done. Ta-da! Unfortunately, there is a bit more to it than that. At least, when you plan on actually using that...
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Freemius may sound like a background character from Game of Thrones, but alas. Freemius is a WordPress plugin service with a really neat concept: you can sell your plugins and themes through the WordPress dashboard instead of using an external marketplace. You can also collect data about usage,...
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