Sorry I missed the roundup last week. We are in the process of moving from North Carolina to Seattle. Enjoy this weeks links!
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Comcast announces Time Warner Cable deal is dead
Good news (imo)
Source: www.theverge.comExtending WordPress With Custom Content Types
Custom Post Types are one of the most-used developer feature I use.
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
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BEMphasis
Interesting to see Jeremy’s thoughts on BEM.
Source: adactio.com
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CSS Positioning Basics (Screencast)
Let’s brush up on positioning.
Source: www.impressivewebs.com
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Details on the new theme settings (customizer) guideline
More info
Source: make.wordpress.org
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Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options
Yes. Yes! YES!!!
Source: poststatus.com
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How to Keep your Site Fast for Mobile-Friendly
Some great pointers on performance
Source: zoompf.com
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Assign. Discuss. Done: A Revamped HipChat & JIRA Integration
HipChat and Jira are pretty awesome together.
Source: blog.hipchat.com
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Why You Shouldn’t Code URLs in Themes or Plugins—and the WordPress Functions to Use Instead
URI’s can change depending on an install. Let’s use the functions WordPress gave us.
Source: code.tutsplus.com
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Does responsive web design make you more money?
Some good ammo for clients that don’t want RWD.
Source: www.webdesignerdepot.com
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Introduction to Docker for WordPress Developers
Docker is awesome, but why use it with a basic WordPress site? :/
Source: www.sitepoint.com
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Clean up and optimize WordPress for your next theme
Adding some of these goodies to my todo list.
Source: cubiq.org
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The best free WordPress plugins for mobile websites
…and now we get the “quick fixes” for Mobilegeddon.
Source: www.webdesignerdepot.com
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Redesigning CodePen | Sparkbox + CodePen
How cool is this? I love both of these companies.
Source: codepen.seesparkbox.com
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Resist the Redesign
It’s really easy to just do a redesign rather than fix UI/UX.
Source: zurb.com
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Mobilegeddon is here.
Everyone got their sites mobile ready?
Source: apmblog.dynatrace.com
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The DOM Is NOT Slow, Your Abstraction Is
#hotdrama
Source: webreflection.blogspot.com
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Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins
This idea of “forced” plugin updates was a hot topic at WordCamp Atlanta.
Source: poststatus.com
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Where Style Guides Fit Into Process
Styleguides are awesome but hard to implement into an existing process.
Source: css-tricks.com
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Tech Meetup at the White House
I’m adding this video to my Pocket.
Source: www.zachleat.com
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Grid Item Animation Layout
More Codrops awesomeness.
Source: tympanus.net
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An equal height grid using Flexbox
Flexbox stuff we can do today.
Source: clearleft.com
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Placeholder Polyfill with Password Support
Really? Placeholder is IE10+? Well, I feel dumb now.
Source: osvaldas.info
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Using Sketch For Responsive Web Design (A Case Study)
Very interested in Sketch, a mockup tool built for web design, not photography.
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
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A Visual Guide to CSS3 Flexbox Properties | Scotch
Let’s learn more about flexbox.
Source: scotch.io
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.resizr – Test your CSS media queries
‘nother one of these.
Source: resizr.co
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jQuery considered harmful
I love this idea of dropping jQuery. With technologies like css animations, checkbox/radio toggles, .querySelectorAll() jQuery is no longer the default. When building sites, let’s decide to use jQuery rather than deciding not to use it.
Source: lea.verou.me
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More Weight Doesn’t Mean More Wait
because performance.
Source: filamentgroup.com
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Thoughts on an API-First WordPress
Interesting thoughts on what could be.
Source: css-tricks.com
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Microsoft + iPhone
How things have changed.
Source: www.thurrott.com
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Fixing the ‘Blank Text’ Problem
Don’t let the title fool you. This article doesn’t have an actionable fix on the developer’s part, but it does breakdown the problem as it exists today.
Source: feeds.igvita.com
