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  • Coding an Advent Calendar: Day 3

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    This year, I decided to create an Advent Calendar website in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. My hopes for the site are to showcase some of my frontend development abilities as well as make something fun, functional, and reusable. Day 3 CSS bow & ribbon I wanted to make a bow for the present entirely out…

  • Coding an Advent Calendar: Day 2

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    This year, I decided to create an Advent Calendar website in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. My hopes for the site are to showcase some of my frontend development abilities as well as make something fun, functional, and reusable. Day 2 WP REST API with React.js (structure) There’s been a lot of excitement recently about the…

  • Coding an Advent Calendar: Day 1

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    This year, I decided to create an Advent Calendar website in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. My hopes for the site are to showcase some of my frontend development abilities as well as make something fun, functional, and reusable (for the next year, and the next year, and the next year, etc). Day One The goal…

  • WP Migrate DB Manually : Multisites & Single Sites

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    Recently, I needed to migrate a WordPress site from a Multisite installation to a Single Site .com. I usually use the WP Migrate DB plugin because it works well for my basic needs, but going through the Multisite -> Single Site transition very manually, sure made me see the value in the Pro version of…

  • HTML Aside: Finding and Using Internet Images

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    There are TWO primary concerns when searching for images on the Internet to use on a webpage: WHERE will I find good images? What about image COPYRIGHT? This article covers the basics of both topics – but let’s begin with COPYRIGHT. Copyright There are TWO basic forms of copyright to be aware of: Implicit /…

  • The First FIVE Components of WordPress to Understand When You’re Just Starting Out

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    The following article is an excerpt from a presentation I gave on WordPress as LMS that I felt deserved its own Post. Enjoy!~ In WordPress, you only need to understand (a minimum of) 5 KEY CONCEPTS to be able to effectively use the software. They are: Pages Posts Categories Tags Media 1. Pages Pages are hierarchical,…

  • Quick Tip: How to Add FontAwesome (or Other Icon Fonts) to your WP Theme or Plugin

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    So, you want to use FontAwesome in your Theme, eh? Add the following snippet to your functions.php file: wp_enqueue_style( ‘font-awesome’, ‘//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css’ ); Do you want to use it in your Plugin? Just place that code in one of your functions within your plugin file and hook into the wp_enqueue_scripts Action: add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘plugin_slug_load_iconfont’ ); function…

  • How to Enable Social Icons in the WordPress Theme Customizer

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    I figure I might as well write about this before I deprecate it in my upcoming Theme. Social Nav Menus are much better. A week or two ago as I was getting deep into developing a new WordPress Theme, I stumbled upon some pretty good looking code that would allow me to add Social Media…

  • 6 Choices for a localhost Web Development Environment

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    For web development, the bare minimum you need access to is AMP: Apache server MySQL database PHP programming language You can install these as a collection on your computer locally using various OS-specific installations: Windows: WAMP Mac: MAMP Linux: LAMP Cross-platform: XAMPP Or, if you prefer an auto-installer, Bitnami is an excellent option. (And Softaculous also looks promising.) Wikipedia also lists…

  • Default WordPress Theme Customizer Controls

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    I’ve recently been messing around with the WP Theme Customizer a bunch and have been looking for the names of all the default settings, sections, and controls. I found them in a file in the wp-includes folder: /wp-includes/class-wp-customize-manager.php The various default section names, setting names, and ‘priority’ are listed below.This is mostly useful if you’re…