{"id":870,"date":"2016-01-18T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T01:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/n8finch.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2016-08-25T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:00:04","slug":"an-honest-review-on-my-january-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n8finch2024.local\/an-honest-review-on-my-january-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"An Honest Review on my January Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Uhh ohh&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked at my watch.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">I couldn&#8217;t believe it was already Sunday. Not just anytime on Sunday, but\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.55;\"><em>evening<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">. That meant that the weekend was over and it was time to get back to the weekly projects at hand tomorrow (that is, today!).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a post about &#8220;a case of the Mondays&#8221;, and it&#8217;s not about how to use your weekends to get a few extra projects done (if you&#8217;re into that&#8230; I am!).<\/p>\n<p>This is simply a post about my January Plan (see original plan <strong><a href=\"\/my-january-2015-plan\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>), the progress I&#8217;ve made, and what I still hope to accomplish in 13 days.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do this thing!&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick list of the things I said I&#8217;d do, and what I actually did:<\/p>\n<h2>Quick Learning on Lynda<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What I said I&#8217;d do<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Debugging with Javascript<\/li>\n<li>Up and Running with Sass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What I actually did<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Debugging with Javascript<\/li>\n<li>Sass Essential Training<\/li>\n<li>Web Workflows with Grunt.js<\/li>\n<li>WordPress: Developing with Sass and Grunt.js<\/li>\n<li>AngularJS and WordPress: Building a Single-Page Application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok, I might have gone a little overboard, but you know Lynda.com: one thing leads to another:-). Since my goal was to be building a theme that used Grunt.js. and Bower, I felt I needed to brush up on these tools. Also, since I&#8217;m trying to use (or\u00a0<strong><em>overuse<\/em><\/strong>) Javascript in this theme, I wanted to see what using Angular and the REST API looked like. These were all fairly short courses, and especially the Angular\/WordPress course gave me some great insight and an idea or two on how Angualr can be used with WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>But that will be for another time&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Building a Theme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What I said I&#8217;d do<\/strong>: build a simple blogging theme (which I\u2019d want to run on this site) that utilizes Sass, Bower and Grunt\/Gulp for building the theme itself&#8230;\u00a0I might be building it from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/underscores.me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Underscores<\/a><\/strong> starter theme, but maybe from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/foundationpress.olefredrik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FoundationPress<\/a><\/strong> or<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/roots.io\/sage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sage<\/a><\/strong> (from Roots).<\/li>\n<li><strong>What I actually did<\/strong>: I got the Underscores theme installed, and tried configuring Grunt and Bower. I got tied up with Grunt (not able to compile Sass or do a live reload). I&#8217;m pretty sure I wasted about 3 hours trying to figure that out. Finally, I just scrapped the idea and started again with a non-Sass version of Underscores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plan now is to build the theme\u00a0<strong><em>first<\/em><\/strong> with no Sass using Bootstrap as the Framework. Once I get that done, I&#8217;ll &#8220;Sass-ify&#8221; it, and install Grunt and Bower with it for development and production. That way I&#8217;m not getting tripped up with Grunt not working and I can get a theme built.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently working through <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/bootstrap-to-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">this course<\/a><\/strong> on building a static Bootstrap theme and then porting it to WordPress. Very good for me to get this kind of overview and flow instead of just going into WordPress and trying to hack together a theme.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someday&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Develop Two Pluggins<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What I said I&#8217;d do<\/strong>: Develop a Cc\/Bcc plugin for WooCommerce and a MailPoet popup plugin for lead capture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What I actually did<\/strong>: I&#8217;ve only done a little work on the Cc\/Bcc plugin&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After working on the Metabox and Slider for a client, I re-did the metabox code for the plugin. However, I haven&#8217;t been able to extend and save the metabox to two fields. Currently, I have a Cc field and a Bcc field, and they&#8217;re both returning the value for the Cc field. 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