This week’s tip will help you produce themes/designs that stand up to real-world use. The problem is all too common. You develop a design, and it looks great. Then you ship it off to a client, and it starts to look horrible. The reason? The client is putting in different content than you did. The [...]

If you want to design awesome web sites or just make little tweaks to your site’s CSS, you should first learn some fundamentals. One of the most important things to learn know about CSS is how the box model works. Everything on a webpage is a box. The site you are looking at right now [...]

Both my intermediate and advanced tips this week are simple changes you can make to your site’s wp-config.php file. One change will enhance your site’s security while the other will greatly help you as you make code changes. Set up custom security keys There are four security keys in your site’s wp-config.php file: AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, [...]

My tips for this week will help you become a better WordPress developer and designer. The WordPress Codex is your first stop to learn more about WordPress functions. To dig deeper than what the Codex can offer, use Grep to locate functions inside WordPress so you can see exactly how they work. WordPress Codex If [...]