Running a venue is difficult to deal with as the weather can have a negative impact on your business. For golf courses, wedding destinations, and even restaurants with patios, bad weather can really take a toll on attendance. Add a visually pleasing and powerful WordPress weather plugin on your WordPress website to let your potential customers […]
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How to Add Plugins to WordPress
So you’ve just created your first WordPress website—now what? One of the best things about the WordPress platform is that you have access to thousands of free and premium plugins. Plugins allow you to enhance any out-of-the-box WordPress website with a wide range of advanced, powerful, and even niche features. With the right plugin, you […]
lite-youtube-embed
Renders faster than a sneeze. Provide videos with a supercharged focus on visual performance. This custom element renders just like the real thing but approximately 224X faster. Comparison Basic usage To use the custom embed you will need to: Include the stylesheet within your application Include the script as well Use the element lite-youtube markup […]
Detecting Inactive Users
Most of the time you don’t really care about whether a user is actively engaged or temporarily inactive on your application. Inactive, meaning, perhaps they got up to get a drink of water, or more likely, changed tabs to do something else for a bit. There are situations, though, when tracking the user activity and […]
Adam Argyle’s 2020 CSS Predictions
Gap Prediction: margins in stylesheets will decline as gap in stylesheets climb Relinquishing spacing ownership to the parent container put the spacing logic in 1 place instead of scattered amongst the children. Gap came with CSS Grid, opened up our eyes, and is now part of the Flexbox spec. I foresee in 2020 that gap […]
Blue Beanie Day 2019
November 30th, the official “Blue Beanie Day,” has come and gone. I’m not sure I ever grokked the exact spirit of it, but I’ve written about what it means to me. Last year: Web standards, as an overall idea, has entirely taken hold and won the day. That’s worth celebrating, as the web would be […]
6 Best Weather WordPress Widgets & Plugins
Running a venue is difficult to deal with as the weather can have a negative impact on your business. For golf courses, wedding destinations, and even restaurants with patios, bad weather can really take a toll on attendance. Add a visually pleasing and powerful WordPress weather plugin on your WordPress website to let your potential customers […]
Dip Your Toes Into Hardware With WebMIDI
Did you know there is a well-supported browser API that allows you to interface with interesting and even custom-built hardware using a mature protocol that predates the web? Let me introduce you to MIDI and the WebMIDI API and show you how it presents a unique opportunity for front-end developers to break outside the browser […]
Weekly Platform News: Strict Tracking Protection, Dark Web Pages, Periodic Background Sync
In this week’s news: Firefox gets strict, Opera goes to the dark side, and Chrome plans to let web apps run in the background. Let’s get into the news. Firefox for Android will block tracking content Mozilla has announced that the upcoming revamped Firefox for Android (currently available in a test version under the name […]
Just Sharing My Gulpfile
Seemingly out of the blue, the Gulp processing I had set up for this site started to have a race condition. I’d run my watch command, change some CSS, and the processing would sometimes leave behind some extra files that were meant to be cleaned up during the processing. Like the cleanup tasks happened before […]