WordPress Widget Blocks
If you use WordPress as your CMS and choose to keep the existing theme structure, then the news is relevant to you. Otherwise, you can skip this post. Among other new, WordPress 5.8 introduces a...
Third Party search engines in self-hosted WordPress
WordPress doesn't really have a search engine built into the CMS. This may cause unexpected results and it may skew a user's search results. The first thing to look at is replacing WordPress's...
WordPress Must Use (MU) Plugins
While researching Custom Post Types I found a little-known technique to ensure plugins are installed and run regardless of user interaction. The idea is that the Must Use Plugins will be active by...
Adding CPT and Taxonomies to an existing theme
In the last post, we covered the technical part of creating Custom Post Types (CPTs) and Taxonomies. This post will cover integrating the CPT into a theme. We will also discuss issues regarding using...
WordPress Custom Post Type for Glossary Project
I've been playing with the idea of creating a technical glossary for referring to technical terms on my posts. After a lot of research I came back to a simple tool: WordPress custom post types...
Creating arrays from node lists
Using querySelectorAll to get one or more items and then process them as an array of items is not as straightforward as I initially thought it would be, at least in the browsers I use for testing Part...
When to use appendChild, insertAdjacentHTML or append
One thing that has always puzzled me is how to insert content into an existing document. In researching this I found two traditional alternatives and a newer API that may make things easier. Recently...
JSON-LD on the web
JSON-LD is a set of extensions to JSON that allows for creating and exchanging linked data on the web. Perhaps the best-known use of JSON-LD outside semantic web users is using schema.org's JSON-LD...
Feature detection and vendor prefixes in CSS
CSS has had to deal with vendor prefixes from very early on and some of those prefixes are still in use today. This post will look at how to use prefixes and how to automate the process, and how to...
Feature detection in Javascript
One thing that makes the web difficult to work with is that a given feature may or may not be available in all your target browsers either because of the version of EcmaScript (the Javascript...