Tag: resource

  • A small primer on theme mods

    Oh, the many things I encounter while doing reviews is amazing. One of the reasons I love contributing to the review team is to get a better understanding of how WordPress at its core works and it is because of this I feel like there are some things that still are not being mentioned or…

  • A metabox for your layout options

    It’s no surprise I can be vocal when I am reviewing a theme. Many know that I’ll spurt out what I end up seeing in a lot of themes. There is one thing that really does drive me crazy though and that is when people copy and paste code to their theme without actually knowing…

  • My tour of creating a PHPCodeSniffer Standard

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    It’s no surprise I like to learn new things. I also like to read things when I can. Okay, a lot of the time I skim through things but I make an effort to learn from it. The last couple of weeks I’ve looked at working with the PHPCodeSniffer. I installed it and never really…

  • Creating a diff file

    The other day I made a quick video on how to create PHPCS reports. Later on during the day I was asked about creating a patch to meta. Of course I’m going to make another video to help somebody else out. In the video I go over on how to create a diff file using…

  • Creating sample PHPCS reports

    I created a quick video in hopes to help some people understand the great thing that is using the PHP_CodeSniffer and how good it can be for not only developing plugins but WordPress themes as well. In the video I create two sample reports. The first one a source report and the second just a summary…

  • Theme Review tips, tricks, and take aways

    WordPress theme reviews are: Fun Entertaining Demanding Awesome Time consuming There are more but those are the ones that came to mind first. The last one is the one I really want to focus on the most and there is a reason for it. Recently, the review team posted a call to tips on theme…

  • WordPress underscore template

    The last few posts I’ve mentioned diving into creating an underscore theme. There is now one core ticket I’ve been keeping an eye on and will continue to do so until it is resolved. Since the last post I did install the REST API plugin so this now means I am one step closer to…

  • Three sliders, one option, and a few tears later

    I am not a huge fan of sliders until they are used in a decent way. The only way I sort of like them is in an image gallery but even then it has to be somewhat incorporated with a lightbox, colorbox, whatever you would like to call it. These sliders are slowly becoming a…

  • Two or three column section

    A while back I wrote a quick and dirty tutorial on how to display more than one page. This can be done in a number of different ways. You can read about them in other tutorials and guides because this time I’ll go over another method using the WP_Query method. The codex page some really…

  • Widgets and when to use them

    Widgets are a great way of showing information in specified areas. Themes handle this in different locations and different ways. Some have page template with up to thirty widget areas. Yes, thirty! Sorry, felt like a salesman when I typed it out but it is true. And then you get the occasional theme that wants…