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How to get access to alpha, beta and release candidate versions of WordPress
Read This Post: How to get access to alpha, beta and release candidate versions of WordPressTesting pre-release versions of WordPress is a key part of making sure major releases, and your site, run smoothly. But not a whole lot of people know about it. So here’s how to test pre-release versions on your staging or development sites.
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More thoughts on the Gutenberg editor
Read This Post: More thoughts on the Gutenberg editorGutenberg is coming whenever WordPress 5.0 is released. It’s come a long way from when it was released as a plugin last year. Like everyone else, I have thoughts on the new editor.
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Changing a shortcode to a dynamic Gutenberg block
Read This Post: Changing a shortcode to a dynamic Gutenberg blockGutenberg is coming, and it will shake up the ecosystem. One of the biggest changes will come with shortcodes, since the TinyMCE editor will be no more. But it’s pretty easy to turn shortcodes into the blocks with dynamic blocks.
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Adding filter and action hooks to your WordPress plugin
Read This Post: 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
Read This Post: 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
Read This Post: 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
Read This Post: 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
Read This Post: 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
Read This Post: 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
Read This Post: 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.