Posts by Bryan Hoffman
Get the Featured Image of a Parent Page in WordPress
When you’re building a number of pages in WordPress that are closely tied to a main, or parent page, tying them together with imagery can help the user know where they are. This snippet is from the same book project as this snippet that gets the title of the parent page. It allows us to…
Read MoreGet the Title of the Parent Page; If No Parent, Show this Page’s Title
This snippet is from a book project – the book title needed to be shown on all subsequent chapters, unless it was the main book page. Here’s the snippet that does it:
Read MoreScreen Size Indicator Returns in Chrome 50
Chrome 49 removed a minor feature that I used quite a bit – the screen size indicator that would appear when resizing the window while in web inspector. Many workarounds were suggested on this Stackexchange thread, but nothing quite replaced the original. Well good news, the feature has made it’s way back in Chrome 50.…
Read MoreWordPress Development with Gulp
Here’s how we develop WordPress websites using Sass and Gulp. At least for this week. We use it to compile Sass, concatenate and minify Javascript, and optimize images. It will also LiveReload when saving Sass files. 1. Install node.js If you don’t already have Node installed, get the download packages here: http://nodejs.org/download/. Run the package…
Read MoreNew Asana Logo for Fluid App
Asana pushed a redesigned branding last week, updating their logo, website and web app. They nailed it in my opinion. It’s clean and fresh and the web app is even easier to use. I connect to Asana via a Fluid app so it was time to update the Asana and Instagantt icons I’d previously released. These aren’t…
Read MoreOS X El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review
When ever a new version of OS X is released, Ars Technica puts out as thorough a review as anyone. This release is no different: OS X 10.11 El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review A few highlights: New system font: San Francisco Improved Mission Control. System Integrity Protection. Means apps like TotalFinder won’t work without…
Read MoreCustom Credit Card Icons for WooCommerce
WooCommerce comes with a default set of credit card icons that look like this: If you like ‘good enough’ then these will do you just fine. But if look close, these are probably a bit blurry, especially on a high-resolution screen. They also feel a bit dated to me – curved buttons shapes with faux…
Read MoreIntroducing: Cinch Security and Maintenance
We’ve been running Cinch Hosting for nearly a decade now. We’ve also been quietly running a web maintenance and security service through Spigot. Well, now they are joined into Cinch Web Services. We’re offering security and maintenance for WordPress based websites at a reasonable cost. Here’s a rundown of the services: Daily Backups Real-time backups 24/7…
Read MoreThe Double Opt In Email Introduction
Since I’ve been somewhat opinionated in the past regarding email etiquette, a recent post by Anand Sanwal at Quartz got me nodding my head. You’re probably doing email introductions wrong Anand describes the situation where one person is introducing two others by way of email – and the right and wrong way to do it.…
Read MoreWordPress Admin Bar Break Points
If you’re building a responsive site with a fixed header, you may have run into troubles with content below the header fitting correctly, depending on what screen size your viewing at here’s a quick rundown of the breakpoints that WordPress currently (4.1.2) uses: 1. 0 – 600px Position: Absolute, 46px height. This bar scrolls up…
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