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I vividly remember my first encounter with a content management system: It was 2002 with a platform called PHP-Nuke. It offered a control panel where site administrators could publish new content that would be immediately available to readers, without …

This is the second article in a three-part series about using the WP API to achieve something I’m calling “Remote Control WordPress”, a lifestyle where you’d manage network settings on a “control” install, and have other “client” installs pull their …

Say you want an animation to run for 1 second, but then delay for 4 seconds before running again. Seems like that would be easy. Turns out it’s not-so-straightforward, but doable. You need to fake it.…

A modal. A small box that pops up to tell you something important. How hard can it be? Wellllll. Medium hard, I’d say. There’s quite a few considerations and a few tricky things to get just right. Let us count …

The border-collapse property is great for making borders even all around <table></table> cells. It makes for a clean look that I actually prefer.

But, there is something that can cause issues with how a browser draws the cells and their …

At my day job, we have about 1,000 sites spread across 30 WordPress multisite installs. The installs all run many of the same plugins and settings, especially at the network level. This causes a lot of wasted time for …

It was way back in 2008 that Chris shared his “Ah-ha!” moment when working with CSS. You know, that metaphorical lightbulb that ignites when you go from not knowing what the heck CSS is to suddenly having a baseline for …