Archive for: March, 2016

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How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Understanding Taxonomies

In a recent series, we talked all about how we could work with metadata for several of the major classes in WordPress.  This included:Post metadata User metadata Comment metadataThroughout the series, we talked a bit about how WordPress 4.4 introduced the idea of term metadata. I didn’t want to present t...

Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors

Roger Johansson:I don’t feel the “problems” CSS preprocessors intend to solve are serious enough to warrant the cost, i.e. to me the solution is worse than the problem.The volume of the chorus in favor of preprocessing (I sing tenor) is so loud, I suspect it’s drowning out a decent size group of people ...

Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors

Roger Johansson:I don’t feel the “problems” CSS preprocessors intend to solve are serious enough to warrant the cost, i.e. to me the solution is worse than the problem.The volume of the chorus in favor of preprocessing (I sing tenor) is so loud, I suspect it’s drowning out a decent size group of people ...

14 Freebies Experts Think Designers Should Have

Advertise here via BSA A lot of new designers always fumble with basic designing questions. And one such popular question is ‘How much should I charge?’ There isn’t a fixed rate to be honest, designers charge as per their skills and experience. But one thing to keep in mind is, charge as per the value you provid...

The 50+ Best Tools and Resources for Web Developers

Being a web developer is one of the most beautiful jobs there is, but also one of the most demanding. You need to stay up to date at all times and learn actively instead of resting on your oars. Adapting to new requirements is key. Basic SEO knowledge is required, and you need to acquire new techniques such as responsi...

Building An Advanced WordPress Search With WP_Query

  Many WordPress superpowers come from its flexible data architecture that allows developers to widely customize their installations with custom post types, taxonomies and fields. However, when it comes down to its search, WordPress provides us with only one-field form that often appears inadequate and...

Using Map and Reduce in Functional JavaScript

This article was peer reviewed by Panayiotis Velisarakos, Tim Severien and Dan Prince. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! With all the talk about workflows that support the amazing new features in ECMAScript 6, it’s easy to forget that ECMAScript 5 broug...

Build Virtual Reality in VR with Primrose and WebVR

Virtual reality is really hitting its stride this year, with VR headsets selling out all over the place. Virtual reality development is steadily gaining more attention from development platforms right now as they begin to cater to these eager developers. One of the most exciting features both Unity and Unreal Engine ar...

Crash Course into Continuous Testing with Sismo

The PHP community started to adopt the testing culture relatively recently. Despite there being some debates on how to achieve this, nobody can argue the importance of having your code fully covered by tests. In this article, we’re going to explore a tool that will help you in a major part of the testing culture call...

Leveling Up with React: Redux

This tutorial is the final of a three-part series by Brad Westfall. We’ll learn how to manage state across an entire application efficiently and in a way that can scale without dangerous complexity. We’ve come so far in our React journey, it’s worth making it across the finish line here and getting th...