Category: WordPress

Disclaimer: You should think twice about interacting with the Slack API using client facing JavaScript like jQuery on a public website because your webhook (the special URL that Slack generates for you) will be public. This means that anyone could post anything in your Slack channel without being authenticated. It is possible to interact with the Slack API… Continue reading jQuery and the Slack API →

If upon browsing your WordPress blog or website you find a mostly blank page with an error message that says something like "Error Establishing Database Connection" it generally means that your MySQL database credentials changed, or your .htaccess file is corrupt. Start out by verifying your MySQL credentials: Connect to your server via FTP and… Continue reading Error Establishing Database Connection WordPress Error →

Responsive Images are one of the next hurdles in making the web truly accessible to everyone. Without responsive images, even if we have a responsive site and the images 'scale' using CSS, if our visitor is using a phone or tablet they will receive the full resolution image that a visitor on a desktop would… Continue reading Installing Adaptive Images on WordPress →

Websites can sometimes be picky about the file-types that they are served. One issue that I recently discovered was that a stylesheet was using an .svg file as a background image for a few elements, but the elements would always have the 'Broken Image' icon displayed rather than the image. This was happening even though… Continue reading Fixing SVG Mime-Type/CSS Errors →

I recently saw something really cool over at http://css-tricks.com, which by the way is an excellent resource for all sorts of HTML/CSS/Javascript tricks and tips. If you go to comment on any of the individual posts, it will pop up a preview of what your comment will look like complete with your Gravatar, website URL,… Continue reading WordPress Comment Live Preview →

WordPress thumbnails (or Featured Images) are a great way to show a single image from a lot of posts at once. This has a lot of applications but the most popular is probably the related posts plugin. You know what I'm talking about, it's usually at the bottom of a post on any given blog… Continue reading Working with WordPress Post Thumbnails →

I've been working with WordPress on a strictly theme development basis for about 2 years now. I've edited and created countless CMS's out of various WordPress themes and even authored 4 or so myself. I've always stuck away from plugin development because I generally don't like the concept of plugins. Why the hell would I… Continue reading The Importance of Enqueueing in WordPress →

By default, WordPress will display comments in an oldest to newest fashion. This is great for comments that are children or in reply to other comments because you would want to go down the conversation chain in chronological order. However if you're running a blog or have a custom testimonials page or something like that… Continue reading Displaying WordPress Comments Newest to Oldest →

WordPress is fantastic. It's grown well past it's infancy of a simple blogging software into being capable of acting as a full fledged Content Management System. Google Analytics is equally awesome. It's an excellent way of tracking visitor flow throughout your website, identifying how people are arriving and why they leave and so much more.… Continue reading Google Analytics and WordPress →