Torque Toons: WordCamp for Procrastinators

Speaking of WordCamps, I’ll be at WordCamp for Publishers next week in Chicago. I’ll be there shooting videos and handing out WordPress themed comics. I hope to see you there! Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!
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Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 7: Refactoring Is An Opportunity To Adopt Test-Driven Development

So far in this series on writing WordPress plugins using object-oriented PHP, I’ve focused mainly on testing. This is because a key advantage of object-oriented PHP is that it can be written in a way that is both highly testable and highly reusable. Just using classes doesn’t magically give us this We’ve also not written …
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On Switching Code Editors

I’m sure a lot of you are like me and have switched code editors a number of times. I think my first major editor was Coda. Then I moved to TextMate when I started working primarily on local. Then Sublime Text. And, most recently, VS Code. I bet your journey was different. I know lots of folks that quite love Atom, Brackets, WebStorm, and even BBedit. You do you!

For me, that’s four …

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How to Design Wedding Invitations: 7 Simple Steps

Your wedding day is a showcase of your love story, and you can highlight your story with a custom wedding invitation that you design. Today we’re looking at how to design wedding invitations, with a few key steps to remember along the way. A custom wedding invitation will help show off your personality, save money […]
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7 Design Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Content

Design mistakes can happen to anyone. Maybe you’re trying to finish a project too quickly, or you’re working on a complex site design where something gets merely overlooked. But, when they happen, you have to fix them… immediately! Some design mistakes can ruin your content, cause users to abandon your site, or lose trust in […]
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Getting to Know a Legacy Codebase

Harry Roberts talks about some methods for getting comfy with a new (“specifically CSS”) code base. Harry’s done this a lot as someone who parachutes into new code bases regularly as a consultant. But I think this is also quite interesting for people starting a new job. So much web development work is working on existing sites, not green fielding new ones.

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Framer X

Framer X is a brand new app that’s about to be released and this quick demo reel takes us on a tour through some of the changes to the previous app—it all looks super exciting.

As a designer, I’m most interested in the prototyping tools and being able to quickly explore complex scene transitions between one state and another. But as a developer, I’m interested in how it all ties into React. The website describes it like so:

Use actual …

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