…dergo this process of getting something working, learning about a few of the mistakes you've made, refining the code, and then repeating the process.Ultimately, it's about improving the quality of what you're doing such that the end result is better than it would've been had you just left it as…
…derdog of iThemes iThemes has always struck me as a very successful company with WordPress-based products and services, yet this product, Sync, looks a bit meek in contrast to other iThemes products. It's probably the features: It does offer the basic features like updates or content/user/plugin/theme management, but it focuses on…
…design patterns are best defined in the words of Martin Fowler: Patterns provide a mechanism for rendering design advice in a reference format. Software design is a massive topic, and when faced with a design problem, you must be able to focus on something as close to the problem as…
…der the "corporate themes" category, and nearly all best-sellers are a corporate or a "multi-purpose" theme. And it's no different in other theme shops, too: Almost all of their top-sellers are multi-purpose themes, and corporate themes come in second all the time. Hey, we can't object to what the market…
…de in a few themes.Perhaps you've altered the functionality of a couple of plugins.Maybe you've even written a simple plugin and made it available.Whatever the case, you're ready to continue to building things with WordPress, but you're not yet sure where to go next.More specifically, maybe you're not quite ready…
…de of WordPress's market share is because it's so darn easy to create corporate websites with WordPress, and this is also the exact reason why the top-selling WordPress themes are corporate (or multi-purpose) themes. Theme makers might have clogged the market a bit by putting the same designs into practice, but…
…der-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} In last two tutorials of this series, we have discussed how filters and blend modes can completely change the appearance of images. In this tutorial, I will cover the basics of editing images by using both these properties together. The Basics of Layering Image Effects…
…de smells and possible refactorings. The target audience I had in mind are newbies who heard about this topic and who maybe wanted to wait a bit before entering these advanced waters. The following article covers “Feature Envy”, “Shotgun Surgery” and “Divergent Change”. Topics Feature Envy Shotgun Surgery Divergent Change…
…defined what metadata is; its role within WordPress, and how it's relevant to us as developers. But the introduction was meant to be just that: a survey of what we're going to be covering throughout the rest of this series.Starting in this post, we're going to begin exploring the WordPress…
…development in OpenCart, you may have faced the situation in which you've declared a couple of common elements in each and every controller. Don't you think that it would be nice if you could declare the common code somewhere and it's picked up as needed! So in this article, we're…