Ticking Time Bombs WordPress powers one third of the web and continues to grow. It’s a powerful, easy to use and versatile content management system. It’s also far from turnkey, set-and-forget platforms like Squarespace and Wix. This can translate into sites that are effectively ticking time bombs. If that sounds alarmist, read any of the […]
Using CSS Grid with the Underscores Theme
In this tutorial we’ll make the Underscores theme CSS Grid friendly by flattening out the layout. There are two main divs we can lose in order to make the nesting more effective: <div id=”content” class=”site-content”> and <div id=“primary” class=“content-area”> The first div, #content, opens up in header.php and its closing tags is the in footer.php […]
Stop Cowboy Coding and Learn to Love Local Development
If you’ve ever had the misfortune of making a change to your live WordPress site only to have it completely break on you, it’s time for you to learn about local development. In this post I’ll provide a very broad, high level view of what it means to set up a local environment. Defining Local […]