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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 [...]
Start an Ecommerce Store in 2021 Guide
If you have ever considered opening an eCommerce store, now is a great time to take action. In 2020, shoppers spent over $4 trillion [...]
Carbon: Basic Syntax Highlighting with Zero Overhead Using JavaScript
If you have ever used PrismJS or CodeMirror or any other syntax highlighter solution, you’ll know it adds lots of dependencies bases [...]
Gravity Forms Repeater Plugin
If there is one feature missing from Gravity Forms, that is a field repeater section. A way to set a starting and ending point and adding [...]
SpeedFactor Update: Less is More
The past few weeks have brought some long awaited updates to SpeedFactor. As I am focusing on tracking speed, some of the tools provided [...]