As CEO James Farmer tells it, he was “slightly obsessed” with branding Edublogs and each time there was a new release of WordPress he’d spend half a day replacing all the icons and images and hacking out all mentions of WordPress from the admin area.
Source: Ultimate Branding: Give Your WordPress Site a 3 Minute Makeover
Squarespace is a popular platform for beginners and those who don’t want to deal with any of the complications of platforms like WordPress. This is understandable. With all of the choices to make, WordPress can feel overwhelming.
Typography might be something you’ve always let your WordPress theme take care of. If you’re working with a theme where the designer has carefully considered fonts and how they play together across the different text areas of the design, then great.
WordPress is not the only software out there offering useful extensions to their core product. Photoshop, one of the go-to tools for web designers around the world also supports this possibility. And like their WordPress counterparts, Photoshop plugins can also add all sorts of new functionality.
Source: 36 Photoshop Plugins for Web Designers You Need to Check Out
1 billion. By conservative estimates, that’s the total number of websites in the world today. And an overwhelming 94.7% of those sites use JavaScript.
Source: The 18 Best Javascript Tutorials for WordPress Developers in 2017
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In Matt Mullenweg’s 2015 State of the Word address, he gave the entire WordPress community a homework assignment – “Learn JavaScript, Deeply.” That focus, along with developments like Calypso and the REST API, is why we just published a basic JavaScript tutorial post for beginners to get started with JavaScript.
Source: 10+ Helpful Javascript Tutorials for WordPress Developers in 2017
WordPress makes it incredibly easy to set your website up the way you want it. Sometimes, though, it is not as easy to make changes to get the desired effect. One example is if you want to change a post to a page, or a page to a post. By default, WordPress doesn’t let you change the post type when a post (or page) is already published.
Source: How to Change a Post to a Page in WordPress (and Why You’d Want To)
There’s nothing more frustrating than getting locked out of your WordPress admin dashboard. But if you find yourself in that situation, don’t worry! It’s 100% possible to reset your WordPress admin password, even if you lost access to your email address.
In Playing with Shadow DOM Chris takes a look at why Twitter moved away from using iframes with their embeddable tweets
TL;DR:
Shadow DOM is pretty cool.
It’s comparable to an iframe in many ways, including style encapsulation. Embedded third-party content is a pretty good use case.
It’s possible to use it while falling back to an iframe pretty easily.
It’s a part of the larger world of web components, but you don’t have to go all-in on all that if you don’t want to.