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WordPress 4.4 was released earlier this month, and it came loaded with new features and enhancements. We now have responsive images, better embeds, phase one of the REST API, and of course, a new WordPress theme: Twenty Sixteen. So, how does the new WordPress theme fare? In this post, I will be taking a closer look at the Twenty Sixteen theme. Twenty Sixteen At first look, Twenty Sixteen does not seem to deviate much from its predecessor in terms of genre. It is a clean and minimal theme, with a good deal of white space, clean typography, and responsive layout […]

Just like a painter needs a brush, a blacksmith her hammer, and carpenter his saw, WordPressers need their own set of tools. While we have many different WordPress development tools at our disposal, most of the work happens inside a simple text editor. Whether you are a full-on plugin or theme developer or “only” an advanced user, we need code editors all the time: Configuring core files, changing styles, editing template files, you name it — a good chunk of our work is modifying lines of code. Therefore, it’s only good and proper that we use the best tool at […]

Like many WordPress developers, I started learning JavaScript before I really even knew what JavaScript was.  By “learning JavaScript,” I mean that I Googled how to make dynamic changes to the CSS on my page, discovered that jQuery was the option, and later found out that jQuery was a JavaScript library, and so on. WordPress is a safe space from which we can explore the different technologies surrounding it to improve our sites and create more dynamic experiences for our users. This includes JavaScript. In Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word this year, which I was lucky enough to attend, […]