Color.js A CSS Color Tool in Javascript
CSS Color Module Level 4 and level 5 introduce a lot of new color features but unless you're really into the guts of working with colors on computers you probably wouldn't know how to use them. There...
Plugin Topics: Thinking about privacy
Privacy in the context of a web application like WordPress goes beyond legal requirements. It's also answering the following questions: What information we collect Why we collect it How we use it How...
Plugin Topics: Adding Plugin Admin Pages
If we want to allow users to configure our plugin, we can add menus to the admin pages either as a top-level menu or a submenu of an existing menu. When used with the settings and options APIs we get...
Plugin Topics: Meta Boxes and Cron
The next few items (Meta Boxes, and Cron) are nice to have, require a lot more work, and are not necessary for the majority of plugin projects. I include them here because I'm interested in what they...
Additional considerations for OOP plugin development
Rather than writing plugins (or any PHP code) procedurally, we can leverage Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) to write our plugins. OOP is easier to maintain and extend as the needs of the plugin...
Notes On Building A WordPress Plugin
Anyone can build a plugin but it takes a lot of work to get the plugin done right and ready for sharing or WordPress review and approval. I realized the extra work involved when I was looking at the...
Add inline scripts in WordPress
When working with WordPress, you may need to insert an inline script into a page or a template. This post will discuss two ways to do it Method 1: wp_add_inline_script() # The first method,...
Live Core Web Vitals Measurements In WordPress
Building the Core Web Vitals measurement into WordPress is a bit more involved as it depends on whether you've analytics into your site and how you've done it. This function depends on Google's...
Live Core Web Vitals Measurements
Core Web Vitals give developers and performance specialists insights into different facets of user experience. These core web vitals metrics can be measured in the wild and reflect real-world users'...
Custom Counter styles
Ready-made Counter Styles provides a collection of predefined counter styles you can just drop into a stylesheet. These pre-defined custom counters are great to work in international documents since...