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Not long ago, I posted about PHP templating in just PHP (which is basically HEREDOC syntax). I'm literally using that technique for some super basic templating I needed to do on this very WordPress site. The main pushback was that this kind of thing can be an XSS vulnerability. In my case, it's not, because I'm not using it for anything other than an abstraction convenience for my own hand-written strings.

Since then, we've had a couple of good articles … Read article

A standard e-commerce site has a few common pages. There are product pages, shop pages that list products, and let’s not forget pages for the user account, checkout flow and cart.

WooCommerce makes it a trivial task to set these up on a WordPress site because it provides templates for them and create the pages for you right out of the box. This is what makes it easy to get your store up and running in a few minutes just … Read article

Over a decade ago, I did a little three-part video series on Designing for WordPress. Then I did other series with the same spirit, like videocasting the whole v10 redesign, a friend's website, and even writing a book. Those are getting a little long in the tooth though. You might still learn from watching them if you're getting into WordPress theme development, but there will be moments that feel very aged (old UI's and old versions … Read article

Here’s a great thread by Kevin Powell that's making the rounds. He believes so many folks see CSS as a frustrating and annoying language:

That's just as unintuitive as JS starting to count at 0, but since you learned that and accept it, it's fine.

The real issue isn't with CSS. If you struggle with it, or ever call it unintuitive, it's probably because you don't really understand how CSS is meant to work.

— Kevin Powell (@KevinJPowell) February 24,

Here’s a fun one. How might we create a set of those cool Matryoshka dolls where they nest inside one another... but in CSS?

I toyed with this idea in my head for a little while. Then, I saw a tweet from CSS-Tricks and the article image had the dolls. I took that as a sign! It was time to put fingers to the keyboard.

Our goal here is to make these fun and interactive, where we can click on … Read article

This is not that blog post. I'm saying let's say you were.

This is not a knock any other blog posts out there about Dark Mode. There are lots of good ones, and I'm a fan of any information-sharing blog post. This is more of a thought exercise on what I think it would take to write a really great blog post on this subject.… Read article