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WordPress Development with Gulp

February 13, 2016

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…

Update MAMP Pro

November 4, 2014

The updating process with most Mac software is painless, especially App Store apps. Not so with MAMP. Since I have such a hard time remembering the process, here’s quick reference to update MAMP Pro without…

From Codekit to Grunt and back

August 29, 2014

I’ve used Codekit since the day I started with Sass. It helped me understand Sass and make my CSS authoring fun again. A few weeks ago I was feeling pretty awesome and decided to puh-phushaw…

Quickly edit post tags and categories in WordPress

July 16, 2014

Here’s how to quickly edit categories and tags on a WordPress post, or multiple posts: Quick Edit The posts page in WordPress admin has a nice quick edit feature that allows you to quickly update,…

Codekit 2.0, WordPress, and MAMP

March 25, 2014

I upgraded to Codekit 2.0 a few days ago and so far it’s great. I thought the browser refresh feature was broken but it turns out I was just doing it wrong. If you’ve used…

Text only Pinterest link

September 26, 2013

As I’ve said a few times before, I prefer to keep control over the look of the social links that appear on this site. I also prefer to keep control over the source code and…

Change post date in WordPress

September 22, 2013

Here’s a super simple tip on how to change the date in WordPress. Two tips actually. Quick Edit The main posts page in the WordPress admin has a nice quick edit feature that allows you…

Text only Google+ share link

September 11, 2013

I don’t really care for the standard social media share links. It’s not that they’re ugly per-se, it’s that they rarely fit a design well. That they’re ubiquitous and nobody even notices the design faux…

Increase upload file size on Media Temple (dv)

September 6, 2013

Are you having trouble increasing the maximum allowed file upload size on a site hosted on a Media Temple (dv) server? You’ve probably come across these instructions on Media Temple’s knowledgebase and are perhaps still…

Nested retina media queries with Sass

January 15, 2013

Since switching from LESS to Sass I’ve been excited to learn how Sass makes responsive web design easier with @content blocks and @media mixins. During a recent project I was interested to know if these…