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WordPress and Tablets: Optimising Now and Looking to the Future
Tablets are becoming more popular as each day passes and more people are turning to them for the consumption of web-based content. Across Tuts+, we’ve already discussed in several articles how to design with these new tablet devices in mind. Today, we’re going to revisit the topic of considered tablet design and look at it in the context of WordPress.
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Insights into WP-Cron: An Introduction to Scheduling Tasks in WordPress
Today we’ll be looking at the WP-Cron functions, one of the lesser known tricks that you can use for some fun! The primary purpose is for setting up scheduling or other time-sensitive tasks. We’ll examine some tricks for using it, and we’ll also identify some potential problems with it and how to work around them.
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The Rise of HTML5 in WordPress
2011 was a big year for the advancement of HTML5 in the web development community. It became pretty widely adopted, especially for the mobile web. There have been major projects that help developers use HTML5, like Paul Irish’s HTML5 Boilerplate (technically 2010, but popularized in 2011) and books galore! I would strongly recommend Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers, published by the venerable A Book Apart (a service by Happy Cog). But what started as a movement in 2010 became the proper way to do things in 2011, from mobile websites to progressive enhancements, and that includes integrating HTML5 into WordPress themes.
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WordPress Year in Review: The Best Tutorials of 2011
2011 has seen a lot of changes in WordPress with loads of new features and updates. We also saw WordPress grow as a CMS. It has taken over other CMS platforms like Drupal and Joomla to become the top most CMS platform used in the world. It has a content management system market share of around 54.3%. Well, other than fact that WordPress itself is brilliant, another major reason of this growth and popularity is the awesome WordPress development community that we have. Here is a round up of some of the the best, unique and useful WordPress tutorials written this year.
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The WordPress Theme Frameworks Starter Guide
In this article, I will go through the best known WordPress frameworks, analyzing them from a handful of benchmarks. The idea here is to help you sort out which framework is the best for your own development process! The aspects that we will review are: features, development capabilities, security, support, child themes.
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20+ Great Gift Ideas for Any WordPress Developer
With Christmas around the corner and a large family, plus friends asking me what I want, we’ve been putting some thought into things we’d like and find useful. This obviously includes some tools of my trade, which is web development, focusing on WordPress. You would think I’d have a hard time coming up with gifts for your standard WordPress developer, but to be honest a lot of stuff on my wish list applies. So to anyone who asked me, here you go: Over 20 gift ideas for us or any other WordPress Developer!
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Guide to Managing Premium WP Projects – Part 1: Planning The Project
There has never been a better time to be a WordPress developer. The platform is under active development, the community is growing, the marketplace for both free and premium projects has exploded, and more and more people are making a successful living by providing projects and services specifically targeting WordPress.
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