Tag: web development

  • Tips for Small Business Owners Getting Started with WordPress

    Tips for Small Business Owners Getting Started with WordPress

    A couple months ago, I was asked to contribute to an article for business owners on getting started with WordPress. The article was just published and I made slot #4 (I don’t think there’s anything special about that, btw ). There was some great advice in the article, especially #1: Don’t be afraid to get…

  • My First Open Source Code Contribution

    My First Open Source Code Contribution

    A lot of developers have stickers on their computers. Sometimes the stickers are like pieces of flare. Sometimes, they’re like merit badges. Still, other times the stickers are like a signal flare. Whatever the case, I geek out about them a bit. I see the stickers somewhere in between a merit badge, a piece of…

  • Genesis and Angular: Adding Routing to Posts and Pages (Part 3)

    Genesis and Angular: Adding Routing to Posts and Pages (Part 3)

    This is the third post in a three part series on using Genesis and Angular. Part 1 can be read here, and Part 2 can be read here.  Routing is part of the magic of web applications, and not something that we really think about when we’re developing WordPress sites since it’s basically taken care…

  • Using Angular to Display Content in Genesis Using the WP REST API (Part 2)

    Using Angular to Display Content in Genesis Using the WP REST API (Part 2)

    This is the second post in a three part series on using Genesis and Angular. Part 1 can be read here, and Part 3 can be read here.  In my last post on the subject, we left off with two-way bindings to show that our Angular markup was working in Genesis. That’s great! But we want…

  • Changing Select Menus for Cross-Browser Compatibility

    Changing Select Menus for Cross-Browser Compatibility

    In doing theme or plugin development, maybe you’ve noticed that the various browsers represent fields and inputs differently. Two recent projects, I ran into this inconsistency, and the client wanted everything uniform. So, here’s what the different browsers represent a dropdown select: