Agencies understand the benefits of WordPress. Not only is it flexible and free, but it also accelerates time to market and allows agencies to hand over a “usable” project to their clients. Jason Marlowe, veteran web designer and CTO at Market House, understands the benefits of WordPress. We talked to him about why he uses the CMS, his stance around open source, personalized content experiences on WordPress, and more. Marlowe started out with HTML and CSS and then moved to Drupal. From there he jumped to WordPress and never looked back. In the last 6-7 years he’s been working almost […]
There’s No Excuse For Bad Site Accessibility
Recently Automattic hosted an online conference on design and exclusion. Instead of calling it a conference on inclusive design, they flipped the idea around to focus on what conscious and unconscious decisions lead to the systematic exclusion of people. Inclusive design is about a lot more than the web and it’s about a lot more than accessibility. But, as web developers, accessibility – making sure that the HTML we generate can be used by everyone properly – is an important topic. So, I wanted to share four attitudes I think leads to us skipping over this important part of our […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: WP-CLI with Dwayne McDaniel
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. This week we caught up with Dwayne McDaniel at the WPSFO meetup and chatted about the advantages of using the WordPress Command Line Interface (or WP-CLI) for managing your WordPress site.
10 Best jQuery Plugins for Web Developers
jQuery has emerged as one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks for creating advanced websites with top-notch functionality. The recently updated version of jQuery comes with some added features to offer a refined user experience. jQuery has been willingly accepted by the web designing community as it allows developing user interactions quickly. jQuery is a framework that requires minimum effort and coding to design applications with an increased functionality. It comes with lots of plugins that increase website function. Let’s have a look at top 10 well-known jQuery plugins. jInvertScroll This plugin makes it easy to implement horizontal scrolling with […]
15 Amazing WordPress Milestones
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to celebrate WordPress’ 15th anniversary! 5/27/18 WordPress celebrates its 15th birthday this weekend. The CMS has come a long way since its release in 2003. Not only does it today power more than 30 percent of the web, but its also supported and maintained by a growing community. WordPress has grown so much – today we want to highlight some of the biggest milestones of the last 15 years. 2003 — WordPress Was Released Fifteen years ago WordPress officially launched when Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little released a blog post with a download link and […]

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