Power your WordPress application with Vue.js – the progressive JavaScript framework that now shares the stage with the likes of React and Angular. In this article, I’ll show you how to integrate a Single Page Search App within your existing WordPress application with Vue.js – an extremely popular JavaScript framework for developing rich user interfaces. […] View original post at …
How to Write and Activate a Function in WordPress
If you’re starting out developing your own WordPress plugins, or you’re creating your own themes, a skill you’ll need to learn is writing functions. Maybe you’ve written a function which didn’t work and you’ve given up in frustration. Or maybe you’re confused by action and filter hooks and you’re not sure how to get your […] View original post at …
Single-Page Websites: A Web Design Trend Worth Adopting?
Years ago, one of my clients referred me to a developer who wanted to partner with a copywriter. She would build the websites and I would supply the copy and SEO. Before we began our first project, I asked for a wireframe so I could get a sense for what each of the web pages […] View original post at …
Conversion Rate Optimization in WordPress: It’s Not That Simple
It doesn’t matter if your WordPress site sells digital products, physical inventory, subscribable services, or something else entirely. If your site was built for the purposes of selling something, then you should be making sales from it. In terms of what a good revenue baseline is for a WordPress site, or even what percentage of […] View original post at …
Everything You Need to Know About Blockchain and WordPress
The subject of encryption is nothing new for WordPress developers. In fact, it’s an essential part of any solid WordPress security strategy. As security, in general, becomes a hotter topic in this digital age, it’s no surprise then that developers would find other uses for encryption technology. But what are your thoughts on blockchain? Does […] View original post at …
WordPress Development: Working with Arrays
If you’re creating variables to save values in your WordPress code, there may well come a time when it’s more efficient for you to use an array. An array (or more specifically, an array of variables) lets you save multiple pieces of data using just one variable. It means you can save multiple records in […] View original post at …
Brutalist Web Design: Where Did It Come From and Why Is It Back?
It’s the start of a new year, which means everyone is making predictions on which new web design trends we’ll see pop up on WordPress sites this year. One of the predictions I’ve seen a lot of and originally was not too thrilled about is brutalist web design. Here’s the thing: I don’t want to […] View original post at …
The 17 Best Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers
Though it may seem like forever, Google Chrome has only been around since 2008. Regardless, in its 10 short years, Google Chrome has become the most used and most popular web browser of all web browsers available. Although Chrome hasn’t ever matched (or bested) the same popularity Internet Explorer (IE) once enjoyed in the early […] View original post at …
Code Your Own Autosuggest Enabled Advanced Search WordPress Plugin
Want to add advanced search functionality without depending on third-party plugins or themes? Build your own advanced WordPress Search Plugin with support for autosuggest, custom post types, taxonomies, custom fields, and caching from the ground up. In this article, I’ll show you how to build an object-oriented plugin to add a shortcode-based advanced search form […] View original post at …
Virtual Reality in WordPress: Are You Ready to Give This a Shot?
As I read through Brenda Barron’s predictions for WordPress web design trends in 2018, I was surprised to see virtual reality (VR) show up on the list. Here’s why: Statista puts the number of global virtual reality users at 171 million this year. While that number is nothing to scoff at, it only refers to […] View original post at …