If you haven’t spent time looking at WordPress starter/default themes, you may not have come across the body_class function before. It can be useful right out of the box for styling different types of content, but you can also conditionally add classes to this list for further styling.
Continue reading “Function Friday #4: add conditional classes to the body tag” →The second row of formatting buttons in the Visual Editor contains some useful ones, but it’s hidden by default. I don’t feel the couple pixels of space saved are worth potentially missing out on the added functionality, so I like to display the second row for all users.
Continue reading “Function Friday #3: always show a second row of buttons in the Visual Editor” →This code snippet will let you apply custom styles from your theme with the click of a button. You could switch to the Text (HTML) Editor and add classes manually, but it’s easy to forget the option exists if you have to edit the code every time.
Continue reading “Function Friday #2: custom typography styles in the Visual Editor” →After I’ve launched a WordPress site for a client, I don’t want them to have to contact me to make any updates. To that end, I try to build in as many customization options for them as possible. One quick one is to show their brand/theme colours in the “Text color” colour picker instead of the default palette.
Continue reading “Function Friday #1: custom colour palettes in the Visual Editor” →Every Friday in 2017, I’ll share a neat code snippet for WordPress development. Before kicking it off, though, I wanted to do a little breakdown of where this code should actually go!
Continue reading “Function Friday #0: functionality plugins vs. the functions file” →WordPress sites take a certain amount of ongoing care. I know it can be tedious, but it doesn’t make sense to budget (often quite a bit of) money for the initial website build and then allocate zero resources to keeping it maintained.
Continue reading “My website maintenance checklist” →This past week I attended Smashingconf Oxford, my first European web conference and my first Smashingconf. It definitely won’t be my last!
Continue reading “Smashingconf Oxford: make better internet” →If you’ve spent any time around freelancers, you’ve heard them complain about the state of their own websites. Cobblers and/or shoemakers likely came up too.
Continue reading “Designing for yourself” →I write about code, client resources, and nerdy things I like. You can jump straight to the technical stuff or the nontechnical stuff, or find specific topics below.