Foxhound made its debut on WordPress.org yesterday. The React-based theme is the first in the directory to use the REST API endpoints included in WordPress 4.7. Foxhound sports a tasteful blog design with single-page app functionality that loads posts instantly. Check out the live demo to see how fast the content loads. The theme was designed and developed by Kelly …
Fun Ways to Add Gamification to Your Website
According to a report released by the Entertainment Software Association in 2015, 42% of people living in the U.S. play video games at least three hours every week. Michael D. Gallagher, the president and CEO of ESA, added that: OK, so it’s important to take note of that statistic since it means that nearly half […] View original post at …
WordPress Theme Review Team Making Progress on Clearing Out 1,000+ Review Backlog
photo credit: Oli Dale The WordPress Theme Review team (TRT) has turned a corner and is approaching a major milestone of getting the review queue under 100 themes. As of today, 189 themes are lined up in what was previously a 1,000+ backlog. Key reviewers are confident that number will be closer to zero in the near future. Emil Uzelac, …
How to Create and Style Callout Boxes in WordPress
If you’re a regular reader of news sites or magazines, you’ll notice that they sometimes use something called “callouts” or a “blockquotes” to highlight key text. These are a great way of breaking up long chunks of text and drawing the reader’s attention to key points and interesting quotes. They’re used a lot in interviews […] View original post at …
PressShack Forks Edit Flow to Create PublishPress, Aims to Improve Multi-User Editorial Workflow in WordPress
Last week Steve Burge and the team at PressShack released PublishPress, a fork of Automattic’s Edit Flow plugin. PressShack is operated by the same team behind OSTraining with a focus on creating publishing plugins for larger organizations. Edit Flow has more than 10,000 active installs but is updated sporadically and is not very well supported. The PressShack creators saw an …
21 Productivity Tips to Get You Fired Up When You’re Having One of Those Days
One of the best things about working with WordPress is that no matter where you are in the world, all you need is (reliable) wifi to work with the platform. But it does come with a downside: working from home can be really distracting. When you’ve got the TV on in the background, a hundred […] View original post at …
GitHub Adds Plain English Explanations to License Pages for Open Source Projects
GitHub took another step towards beefing up its support for open source projects this week with a new feature that makes it easier to understand a project’s license. If the project is using a popular open source license, GitHub will automatically add a short, plain-English description of the license and its permissions, conditions, and limitations. This allows GitHub users to …
Beyond Speed: 5 (More) Reasons Why You Should be Using a CDN
You’ve probably already heard about CDNs, you know, they help make your website faster. Yet, you might feel that after paying for web hosting, why should you pay the same amount (or more!) for a CDN? Shouldn’t your hosting already do all of this stuff? There’s a significant difference between the infrastructure required for hosting […] View original post at …
How to Easily Set Up a Staging Site for WordPress on Cheap Shared Hosting
If you’re relatively new to developing websites, or you’ve been managing your own WordPress site for a while but haven’t delved into the world of web development, you may have heard people talking about staging sites and wondered what they are. You may have heard people saying that setting up a staging site is best […] View original post at …
10 Burger Menu Animations That Will Blow Your Mind
As user experience dominates most of our web design discussions, it’s important that we take a closer look at this thing we call the “hamburger” menu. In case you missed it, I’ve touched on the prowess of the hamburger menu before. I’ve discussed the best ways to declutter a website with a number of minimizing […] View original post at …