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How to create a Jetpack Site Stats Aggregator
I believe that Jetpack Site Stats doesn’t need an introduction anymore. It provides basic but good insights on your website users. [...]
Lighthouse Update and What’s Next
It’s been a while since the latest Lighthouse update, and this time we had to release another version due to some recurring [...]
Canvas JS: Big Ball of Particles
For a while now, I had this animated, constantly exploding ball of particles on my Remake Web Design website. Built using JavaScript and [...]
How to Add a Block Pattern to a WordPress Theme
Here is a hands-on code snippet on how to add a block pattern (or more) to a WordPress theme. The code is lifted straight from our Saturn [...]
Using Resource Hints to Optimize WordPress Performance
Resource hints provide a way to optimize the performance of your web page on the client side. As the name suggests, they provide the [...]
CSS Rounded Corners Gradient Border
I had a visually heavy project recently and I had to create a gradient border for certain elements. In my case, images had to have a [...]
JavaScript Drag & Drop
Here’s a nice list of plain JavaScript dragging and dropping solutions. They are minimal, as they serve as proof of concept, and they [...]
“Times New Roman” Enhanced CSS Font Stack
“Times New Roman” as a Classic Web Font Option With Historical Ligatures A ligature is a special character that combines two [...]
How to Create Double Off-canvas Menus With CSS Only
This feature has been part of a website project for many year. The left side off-canvas menu was mobile only, and the right side off-canvas [...]
JavaScript Character Counter for Text Areas
A while ago, I had to implement a character counter for a business listing directory. The description field was supposed to hold about 400 [...]
The Ultimate YouTube Video Embed Setup
I’m sure you’ve seen this hundreds of times and there’s countless methods of embedding a YouTube video with the least [...]
WordPress External Featured Image via cURL
Here’s the long title for this code snippet — How to set up an external image as a WordPress featured image and inject it into [...]