This is my last-ditch attempt to write a blog post in 2015. I thought it would be nice to look back on the year and make plans for the new year. In 2015 Attended WordCamp Paris Promoted as an admin…
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Bundling plugin, libraries and frameworks in themes
Securi released a post revealing that two popular WordPress plugins had a serious vulnerability. Theme plugin have been bundled into a number of themes. This caused a number of people to mention that one should not bundle plugins in WordPress themes. it's not…
WCCH14: How to Manage Translations
Here are the slides from talk at WordCamp Switzerland 2014 on how to manage translations. Browser not compatible. Below is the video of my presentation. [wpvideo JYQcKbYa]
Future of POT generators
One of the first big problems that I faced when I started with WordPress was how to generate a POT file. In the meantime have been able to look at all of the different tools and see their shortcoming with…
Complete Breakdown of Responsive Videos
I have been asked a few times about adding responsive videos. At the time I was unable to give a good answer. Now I have taken time to do a bit of research and I able to give a number…
How to load theme and plugin translations
You may ask yourself what is so special about this post. Does not the codex cover load_plugin_textdomain() and load_theme_textdomain() but this posts will show what else you can do with it. With this code for the theme and plugin you can…
Child themes, IE8 and Media Queries
In my previous post I mentioned that one of the issues of using @import in the child theme is that the JavaScripts that help media queries in IE8 and lower so not work. So there are three solutions. When using @import…
Improved way of loading parent styles in child themes
The prefered method in the codex and with plugins that generate child theme is to load the parent stylesheet by using @import in the child themes stylesheet. @import url(“../twentytwelve/style.css”); There are a few problems with this. Speed Using CSS @import in an…
Responsive Opt-Out plugin
Responsive Opt-Out allows visitors of your site to switch between the flexible and fixed width layout. This simple setup creates a body class called “responsive” and “fixed-width” both are added to the body class of your Theme. These two classes…
