Getting more views

The Internet is a vast world. WordPress.com users alone produce about 86.5 million new posts viewed by more than 409 million people each month. With so much competition, standing out from the crowd is no easy feat. To put ourselves in our customer’s shoes, this month, we were given the challenge of outlining a plan …

Get Your Theme Ready for Gutenberg

Gutenberg is the codename for the upcoming WordPress editor. It’s currently in beta and available for download from the WordPress.org plugin repository. The new editor consists of blocks that replace current hacky methods of introducing dynamic content such as widgets, custom HTML, and shortcodes. If you test your current theme with Gutenberg, you’ll notice that …

It is hard to WordPress

Recently, I’ve had the chance to help a friend create her own personal website. This wasn’t the traditional “I don’t know anything about the internet, how do I create a site”, this friend had experience using HTML & CSS professionally. Still, she had no idea how to build the type of site she had in …

That nice and quick little feature

It's inevitable that sometime in the lifespan of a software project, features that do not necessarily fit the overall goal will find their way into the code base. In a world of online communities and open source projects, it's really easy to get feedback from your user base and immediately think -- "That's such a …

Thoughts on Compiled CSS Files in Git

An ongoing discussion about build tools in the Underscores GitHub repository reminded me of something that seems to come up a few times of over the life span of a project. CSS preprocessors, the best known being Sass and Less, have become essential resources that make managing complex stylesheets much easier. A common issue when …

Improving the on-boarding experience for self-hosted WordPress themes

Looking for a new theme for your WordPress site can often feel like shopping at IKEA. You go to the store, find that amazing piece of furniture, only to discover that it comes all broken into tiny pieces that will take you hours to put together. WordPress themes are not so different. When you look …