No matter what languages you’ve used in the past to development websites, you’ve no doubt had to complete menial, monotonous tasks – image optimization, JavaScript minification, concatenation, compiling supersets like SCSS and CoffeeScript to their native counterparts, creating the final build… just to name a few. Fortunately, build scripts such as Gulp and Grunt can take care of these rather …
Take the 2016 Git User’s Survey
The 2016 edition of the Git User’s Survey is open and there is a little more than a week remaining before it closes on October 20. Jakub Narębski, one of the main contributors to the gitweb subsystem and author of Mastering Git, posted the survey on behalf of the Git development community. Narębski has created and analyzed the Git User’s …
New Upfront WordPress Magazine Theme – Say Hello to Issue
Another week, another lot of new goodies for WPMU DEV members, and this time round it’s a stylish, crisp magazine-inspired theme that works straight outta the box with our WordPress theme framework Upfront…. say helloooo to Issue. Our new magazine-inspired WordPress theme for Upfront. Check out a live preview of the theme here or find out more and download it …
You Are Responsible for Your Own Awesome
HeroPress is a wonderful site where each week, someone from the community publishes an essay that describes how WordPress changed their life, made them a better person, or gave them a new perspective. Most of the stories have a happy ending and if you’re a regular reader of the site, it’s easy to assume that the WordPress ecosystem is one …
How to Show Different Menus to Different WordPress User Roles
If you’ve already taken the time to nail down the perfect navigation for your WordPress site, the next thing on your todo list should be working out how much of your website’s menu should be visible to your site’s visitors. For many websites, there probably isn’t much need to customize navigation. However, if you happen to run a website with …
5 Signs It's Time to Rebrand
Changing your brand is literally going to affect everything else in your company. So, don’t do it on a whim. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Advanced WordPress Development: Using the Command Line
While mention of the command line strikes fear into the hearts of many developers, the truth is that it is an easy to use and immensely helpful tool for development. Once you understand how it works, the command line is straightforward to use and will streamline how you work, saving you a bunch of time. This is the fourth post …
WordPress.com Adds Customization for AMP Pages, Pushes Update to AMP Plugin
When Google first launched AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), its open source initiative to speed up the mobile web, the project focused on getting publishers on board. AMP pages were featured in the “Top Stories” carousel and soon adoption of AMP grew beyond news publishers to other industries such as e-commerce, recipe sites, and local listings. Ebay has AMP’d up 15 …
10 Email Templates Every Web Developer Needs to Keep Handy
Let’s face it — writing emails is not fun. It’s time-consuming, requires rewrites, and needs proofreading. But as someone who runs a web development business, you send emails daily. You virtually run your business on emails. Which means you spend several hours each day crafting and revising them. Which also means that if you streamline all of this emailing you …
The Deadline to Apply for the Kim Parsell Scholarship Is October 16th
When Kim Parsell passed away in early 2015, the WordPress Foundation created a travel scholarship in her name not only to remember her, but to give a woman an opportunity to attend the largest WordCamp in the US who may not have the financial means to do so. WordCamp US is accepting applications for this year’s scholarship. The deadline to apply is …








