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A Guide To The WordPress Theme Customizer

September 24, 2013 / Tom

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One of the neatest, and nicest features of WordPress (since 3.4) has been the WordPress theme customizer.

In fact, I’m such a fan of it that I think that it has the potential for us to decrease or even remove our theme options pages by giving users all of the tools they need straight in the Theme Customizer.

But as with any new feature or API, there’s a lot to learn and things to understand about how it works, how to implement it in our day-to-day work, and how to use it in place of APIs we previously used.

So in my latest series on WPTuts+, I’m looking at doing exactly that.

The scrollUp jQuery Plugin (And Placing The ‘Scroll To Top’ Button)

September 24, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Whenever I’ve been asked to build a landing page or put a single-page site together for someone, one of the ways that I’ve occasionally implemented navigation is by using the scrollUp jQuery Plugin.

In short, it’s a simple plugin that gives a nice effect such that when the user clicks on a navigation link, the plugin will display a ‘Back To Top’ option in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Nothing too complicated, but it’s well implemented and I’m a fan. The thing is, sometimes the ‘Back To Top’ anchor can interfere with certain footer elements.

Category Sticky Post 2.1.0 – Support For Post Types

September 23, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

About six days ago, I released Category Sticky Post 2.0 that resolving a few bug fixes, and that introduced the following features:

Resolving a bug that marked the category as ‘unstuck’ when updating a post
Introduced a feature for disabling the category sticky border
Improving the coding standards of the plugin be separating the class into its own file
Improving the PHPDoc of the plugin

This morning, I just released Category Sticky Post 2.1.0.

Get Flywheel – Hosting For Designers (And Developers!)

September 23, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Earlier this year, I shared a bit about Flywheel Hosting which prides itself on being a WordPress-centric hosting company. Straight from their site:

A re-imagined WordPress hosting experience, built from the ground up specifically for web designers and developers.

WordPress hosting is a hot market right now, so I love seeing the different providers enter the market – competition triggers innovation, right?

Of course, this still raises one question for all of us…

My Day-To-Day: Path

September 20, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Earlier this year, I talked a little bit about how I deal with social media during the day-to-day. In that article, I shared that I’m a big fan of Path. In fact, I said this:

Yep – I actually use Path. I know, I know, few do, right? But the thing about Path is that my immediate family and my closest friends all use it so I’m actually able to get the benefit of using that particular application more so than any other.

Months later, I’ve continued to scale back my social media involvement to the point where I’ve killed my Facebook account, I don’t use Instagram or any other social service, but have continued to use Path as they’ve continued to grow their service, and I’ve enjoyed every feature – and the frequency thereof – that they’ve rolled out throughout the year.

At this point, the only two social networks that I’m currently using are Twitter and Path.