PublishPress is a really useful WordPress plugin that our team have been working on as a side project.
The plugin is designed for any WordPress site with multiple team members. We developed it to help keep ourselves organized on a busy site with lots of writers creating lots of content. The slogan of the plugin is "WordPress for Teams".
The main feature is a big editorial calendar. You can create, reschedule and plan content from a single screen.
If you add products to your Magento store, multiple versions of your image are created automatically.
When you're editing your product, you'll see four different image versions:
What do those versions mean, and where will you find those different images on your site?
Lots of conferences follow a very standard format that you've seen many times before.
That is absolutely not true of the Merge Show in Orlando, Florida this month.
The Merge Show is a group of conferences that covers domain names, blockchain technology, CMS platforms, doing business in China, and multiple other topics. If you get a ticket for the Merge Show, you can wander between all these conferences.
The organizers hope this format will allow attendees to learn about lots of new technology, and also network with entirely new groups of people.
We have some free tickets to give away too!
Throughout 2017, the WordPress team has been building key new features using React, a Javascript framework developed by Facebook.
However, React has suffered from licensing complications. In mid-September, Matt Mullenweg announced that the WordPress team, and Automattic, were dropping the React framework:
the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a few weeks, and may push the release into next year
This was big news, and a notable set-back for WordPress's development.
Then everything changed again.
Every six months, the Drupal team get to release new features.
This is a major change in Drupal 8. Whereas Drupal 7 never had any new features, Drupal 8 has had three significant updates, with Drupal 8.1, Drupal 8.2 and Drupal 8.3.
So what new features are available in 8.4?
The Pagerer module provides additional preset styles for Drupal standard pages and Views. It is a very simple module with styling options for everyone.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a pager to a View with Pagerer. Let's get started.
Over the last 15 years, Drupal has earned a reputation for being the most powerful open source content management system.
Yes, Drupal may be harder to learn some alternatives, but it compensates for this with its options and flexibility.
Does Drupal 8 continue this tradition? I recently needed to find out.
I've been using Drupal 7 for several years and was asked to use Drupal 8 for a new site. This post contains my thoughts after evaluating Drupal 8 for the first time.
You most likely already navigated across some sites, blogs or galleries, that present the content in an infinite scroll mode.
Such scrolling can easily be implemented with the Views Infinite Scroll contribution module in Drupal 8. No additional libraries or plugins required.
In this tutorial, we’re going to create a gallery of article teasers of all countries in the Americas. Let’s get started!
Websites inevitably have problems. Whether you're using Joomla or anything else, you'll need to spot and fix problems.
Joomla uses PHP and when PHP has problems, it reports them to you. However, often these errors will appear on your site and will be visible to visitors:
In this tutorial, we're going to give you a quick introduction to these errors. We'll explain the different types that might appear on your site and how you can stop them from showing.
If you want to build a large, multi-level drop-down menu in Drupal 8, then the Superfish module is a great choice.
The Superfish module makes use of the jQuery Superfish menu plugin, which is useful for multi-level drop-down menus. Superfish has more features than most dropdown menus. It supports touch devices and keyboard interaction.
This week's new class is a complete beginners guide to Magento theming.
"How to Build Magento Themes" will help you create your very first Magento theme.
Enno Stuurman is a highly-experienced Magento developer and trainer. In this new class, he breaks down everything you need to know about building custom Magento 2 themes.
The class starts by taking a look at the default Luma theme. After learning about the structure of Luma, you'll use that knowledge to build your own unique theme. Enno covers Knockout.js, Require.js, Grunt, LESS and all the other tools you need to master Magento theming.
This class was created in partnership with Enno Stuurman and Ray Bogman from SupportDesk.
In this week's episode, I talk with Aleksander Kuczek and Brad Morrison about WordPress site maintenance.
Alex runs a SaaS service (PerfectDashboard.com) and Brad runs a WordPress support services (GoWP.com). We discussed all about the ups-and-downs of maintaining thousands of sites. Which plugins break the most sites? How to make sure nothing goes wrong when running thousands of updates?
Both Aleksander and Brad moved to site maintenance after realizing how hard it was to run an agency. We mentioned Jason Cohen's article, the unfortunate math behind consulting companies.
Towards the end of the podcast, Aleksander and Brad share what they've learned about the platforms competing with WordPress. Aleksander runs a scanner to find out where people go when they leave his service? Do you they go to Drupal, Squarespace, Wix, or somewhere else?
Did you know that every WordPress site can embed posts from every other WordPress site? WordPress sites are oEmbed providers.
Out-of-the-box, your embeddable posts will take on the look and feel of the WordPress core default template. In this blog post, you will learn how to make your embeddables consistent with the look and feel of your own template.
jQuery is, in my humble opinion, the best Javascript library.
Much of jQuery's popularity is due to the fact that it considerably reduces development time. Their slogan is "write less, do more", which is a great summary of jQuery's benefits.
What make jQuery really great are the plugins. Plugins are reusable portions of code which help you write even less Javascript to achieve specific features on the client side. For example, you can use plugins to create slideshows, galleries, popups and more.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your own custom jQuery plugin in 4 easy steps.
The "A Simple Timeline" module allows you to create a great looking, vertical timeline of Drupal entities.
This timeline could be used to tell the story of your company, organization or perhaps even real historical events.
For the purpose of this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a timeline showing all the Summer Olympic Games of the 21st century.
