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WordPress’ rich text editor (RTE) is good user interface. Good UI is easy to understand and explains itself. That does not mean that there aren’t some things you should be told about it.
Category Archives: Development
Five Great WordPress Plugins, Volume Two
In my first list I covered a few great WordPress plugins including SlideDeck and Updraft Plus. In the year that has slipped away since, so many have surfaced, improved and continued to stand the test of time. Here are a few more plugins that I use and recommend considering. Continue reading
Does It Seem Like Your WordPress Isn’t Updating Enough?
A while back now I had started to notice that a couple of the WordPress blogs I provide support services for somehow never needed updates. At first I thought “hey, that’s great; the owners are actively participating”, but then it dawned on me that like the update notifications I wasn’t getting notifications from Wordfence that these installations were being logged into by other admins, so I started to investigate. Sure enough, when I started comparing versions, a number of the plugins were off. Continue reading
Consistent Dynamic Layout Across Multiple Tables
It had been a while since I’d done much with tables. Back in the day, that was how things got done; developers lived, breathed, ate and dreamed of tables. …but it was never the correct approach. A new project came along where I needed to display multiple dynamic-width tables with linked layouts, i.e. the columns in table A are always the same width as the ones in table B. Continue reading
Five Great WordPress Plugins, Volume One
I’m of the opinion that WordPress has entered a silver age recently and with that comes a vast multitude of fantastic plugins. I run a lot of WP installations and get to try out a lot of plugins. Here’s my first list of five great plugins for WordPress. Continue reading