I’ve always thought that the WordPress dashboard could be much better organized. And yes, I’m well aware that I could start submitting track tickets and patches which I’ve done in the past. I love logging in after I first get an admin account on another site because I’m often amused by the sheer absurdity of […]
Posts
Use this static Page to test the Theme's handling of the Blog Posts Index page. If the site is set to display a static Page on the Front Page, and this Page is set to display the Blog Posts Index, then this text should not appear. The title might, so make sure the theme is not supplying a hard-coded title for the Blog Post Index. And here's a list of posts:
Pagination
I’ve got two routes to go here. Either I add a big bulky query to overwrite the paginate_links output or I add in the css to match the Bootstrap pagination component. I usually just custom style the standard output without regarding to the Bootstrap component. I’ve included both methods for now until I decide which […]
Comments
Comments are a catch-22. They can make the web great or terrible. The whole the web kinda rest of the civility of commenting. I can’t tell you how many sites I’ve cleaned the comments from. As much as I love the feature in WordPress, I most often recommend that commenting be disabled for the majority […]
Log In / Out
I’ve created all kinds of variations with the login form for various membership and network sites. I’ve also seen some really poor implementations of the login forms in plugins. Aside from the fact that I prefer to avoid any third party code, I use the default wp-login.php file to handle user authentication for simplicity. I […]
Error Reporting
I’ve spent plenty time debugging the API and Gutenberg in the console. Sometimes I’ll find that I’m three or four git commits down the line before I realize that I’m generating an error. In an effort to prevent that from happening, I’ve added console logging to a ‘notice alert’ div underneath the header. With this […]
Mode
While developing a website, I often have to switch back and forth between different builds. Instead of manually rewriting the scripts and styles that load into the site between builds, I started using a function determine which state the sites is in and load the JavaScript and CSS conditionally. I include a custom theme settings […]
Search
Search bars always kinda bug me when I visit a website. Most of the time, I’ve already arrived via a search. Half of them are underpowered. Here are the my notes on the search elements for this theme. Try it out ?? Design: I’ve seen sites with a search in the header, sidebar, and the […]