Category: Web Development
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Adding filter and action hooks to your WordPress plugin
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Continue Reading: Adding filter and action hooks to your WordPress pluginWordPress is known for its customizations, but sometimes as plugin or theme developer, it can be tricky to figure out how to let your users add in customizations. That’s where filters and hooks come into play.
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Why you should create a webpage for your WordPress plugin
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Continue Reading: Why you should create a webpage for your WordPress pluginA dedicated webpage for your WordPress plugin gives you more credibility in the flooded plugin market and give your users a place to get help. So why haven’t you created a page for your plugin?
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Why you should create a webpage for your WordPress theme
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Continue Reading: Why you should create a webpage for your WordPress themeIf you have a WordPress theme, whether or not it’s in the theme directory, you need to have a dedicated webpage for that theme.
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What is SCSS and how to use it
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Continue Reading: What is SCSS and how to use itIn the final tutorial on npm, Gulp and SCSS, we finally get to the fun part. SCSS is an amazing tool that makes writing CSS much better and quicker. And you won’t want to go back to normal CSS again.
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What is Gulp and how to use it
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Continue Reading: What is Gulp and how to use itSo as we continue to learn how to compile SCSS/SASS into CSS, we now stumble upon Gulp. And this is how we ultimately compile our CSS together for the browser to read.
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What is npm and how to use it
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Continue Reading: What is npm and how to use itCSS is tedious and boring to write. But SCSS makes styling life so, so much easier; however, you need to compiling it. So, in our effort to learn SCSS, we first must learn about npm.
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You’re not a programmer, you’re a problem solver
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Continue Reading: You’re not a programmer, you’re a problem solverOne of the best things I learned when taking CS classes at the University of Texas was that we are not coders or programmers; we are problem solvers. And that’s a great way to look at it.
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Why you should be writing documentation, even if it’s a solo project
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Continue Reading: Why you should be writing documentation, even if it’s a solo projectDocumentation can be a pain point for any project or program, especially if it’s a project you’re doing by yourself. But the benefits of writing out the documentation vastly outweigh the costs.
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How to add a WordPress admin page to add data to a custom table
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Continue Reading: How to add a WordPress admin page to add data to a custom tableSo you have a custom table, but how do you get data in there the WordPress way? This tutorial shows you how to create an admin page and insert data into that table.
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How to create a custom table in WordPress and why
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Continue Reading: How to create a custom table in WordPress and whyWordPress comes with a number of basic tables created in your site’s database. But sometimes those tables aren’t quite enough. And sometimes a custom table is needed.