As a WordPress user, it is fantastic to see so many people contribute something back. It is so easy to find help and support, we can take it for granted. But let us not forget the larger web community. After all, WordPress was built on web standards. It may have even been the reason some of us even started using CSS and HTML the right way. And now more then ever, with responsive design and a plethora of devices and browsers, standards need our help. So let’s use our community spirit to help a build a better web.
Free Best Practice Mobile Boilerplate
I’ll take anything that helps me move faster in my development cycle and things like this mobile boilerplate are awesome, instantly worth the time investigating whether or not it’s up to snuff and quickly getting a bookmark if it puts out well. Similar to the full HTML5 boilerplate, this mobile one comes with analytics (Google Analytics), icons of touch devices, normalize.css (an alternative to CSS resets), a minimal jQuery-like library, and even Modernizr detection. You’ll even get some apache settings to create quality site performance, which you can get here, a node build script, and even an ant build script.
MaxCDN Redesign Built on WordPress, WP Engine
MaxCDN, a content delivery network solution has recently redesigned their homepage and site and has shared their learnings on how they leveraged WordPress (and other technologies) to achieve a sub-half-second (.5s) load time: There are literally a ton of factors how we changed to get such a fast page load. To break it down, we’ll discuss what we did with the code itself, CSS styling, JavaScript, server/hosting, and the images to achieve this incredible page speed. They go on and share their techniques and implementation strategy that you could leverage for your own use. We’re writing about it because they […]
Interview with Ben Gillbanks of Pro Theme Design
Part of what we want to do here at WP Daily is share the experiences of those who have been around in the WordPress community for some time so that others can learn from them. We affectionately call these people WPOI, or Word Person of Interest. Yes, that’s something I made up but it’ll do for now! Our first ever text-based interview here is with Ben Gillbanks of Pro Theme Design who also has the accolade of building the first theme with an admin panel – that makes him a definite WPOI.
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