A lot of times you’ll take extra care to make sure a theme’s markup is valid and clean as possible, only to have it rendered invalid by a content management system’s WYSIWYG input. If you’re using WordPress, you can overcome this problem with a snippet by Matt Varone. Just add this to your functions.php file [...]
Every now and then you’ll run into a project where there’s a bunch of text supplied that’s just a mess. It might have line breaks to simulate a wrap, inconsistent spaces after periods, or weird characters left over from a word processor. Luckily there’s RegExr by gskinner.com, an online regular expression tool useful for finding [...]
If you’re a web designer, odds are you’ve had to take all kinds of documents with strange formatting and try to get them to adhere to something like UTF-8 only to find some weird symbol or curly quote has messed it all up (often times generating issues with non Internet Explorer browsers). Luckily, there’s a [...]
I’ve come across this issue when designing a layout so many times I almost wonder why the functionality isn’t enabled by default in WordPress. Say you have a category template made for a specific category (a.k.a. category-3.php) and you want all of its children to have the same layout. Problem is these children will just [...]
While working on a project I noticed that there wasn’t a default way to go about including specific categories (and excluding others) from the WordPress calendar. This can be a bit annoying if you don’t want your users to be able to navigate to a “hidden” category in the archives via the calendar. After some [...]
A lot of the clients I’ve worked with chose to work with me because they felt overwhelmed by the amount of “stuff” that full-service agencies and web development firms wanted to throw at them. They’re told they need everything from huge coordinated social media campaigns that’d take a five star general to coordinate to overblown [...]