If you are looking to learn JavaScript, or just want to brush up on the JavaScript basics, then you are in luck. There are currently some amazing resources available online to help you understand and get to grips with JavaScript. And even better, most of the are free.
Source: Learn JavaScript Basics with These 12 Free Resources
Akismet, the most popular spam killing plugin for WordPress, encounters 7.5 million pieces of spam per hour on average. That’s twice as much spam as there are people in Los Angeles. Every hour.
Hackers attack WordPress sites both big and small with over 90,978 attacks happening per minute. Fortunately, there are numerous ways you can protect your WordPress site.
Sketch is a popular, but lamentably Mac-specific, design tool that’s truly taken off over the last couple of years. While you can use it for all kinds of designs, one of the ways in which designers are using Sketch is to create designs for WordPress themes and plugins.
To help out those WordPress designers who are using Sketch, we thought we’d round up some of our favorite Sketch resources for WordPress theme and plugin designers. Here they are!
Source: 25 Sketch Resources for WordPress Theme and Plugin Designers
People are naturally drawn to the visual aspects of a WordPress website, just as much as they are drawn to the written content you share. In fact, according to internet marketer Jeff Bullas, articles with images get 94% more views than articles without images.
Source: Adding Icon Fonts to WordPress With Better Font Awesome
It’s handy to have a collection of brand assets used by social networks, so you can correctly incorporate those assets into your own designs. Designers often need to know the fonts and colors used by popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+, as this information can be used to design more recognizable social login buttons and icon-links to social channels.
Source: Fonts and Colors Used by Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and More
We thought it would be good to share a little behind-the-scenes look at our current setup at WPMU. We’ll also run down how much setting something like this up on your own will cost. If your site gets decent traffic, requires no downtime, or is designed for multiple users to be logged in at once (like Multisite, BuddyPress, or a Membership site), then this guide is for you!
Source: How We Host WordPress: Infinite Scale, Redundancy, and Code Audits
An extensive list of browser specific CSS and JavaScript hacks from all over the interwebs.
Source: Browserhacks
Copyrights, trademarks, and patents are somewhat complex topics. However, they each can have an effect on the way you run your WordPress site, which makes understanding their basics important.The good news is you don’t need to hit the law books to figure out how each of these elements impacts you. In this article, we’re going to discuss the difference between copyrights, trademarks, and patents, and how WordPress is licensed. Then, we’ll talk about what elements of your site you need to protect and how to
Source: Understanding Copyrights, Trademarks, & Patents (And How They Affect Your WordPress Business)
You have a new or existing site that you need to make multilingual. Not a developer? No problem. This step-by-step guide aims to help you translate your site using the WordPress Multilingual plugin.
