In the following exercise you will need to analyze the layouts of the various components on the page, and then decide whether grid, flex, or a combination of both will give you the results seen in the screenshots and demonstration movie. Downloads First, please download the resources you’ll need: this is a collection of screenshots, […]
Author: km
I planned to record a Loom video showing how to deploy with Duplicator rather than All-In-One WP Migration. However, Loom is currently not cooperating. So here is a rough guide how to do it.
When editing your block theme’s theme.json file, a very useful thing to do is to add a reference that allows you to validate the data you are creating. This will also provide code hinting. This reference is to a document called a schema. How to Add the Reference If you add the following as the […]
In this exercise, we will investigate the following things: Please download the starter files we will use for the exercise. A video of the project is available here.
For this exercise, you will make a site using the excellent Kadence theme and two related plugins. This exercise will introduce you to: First, please download Next, watch these Loom videos in the order implied by the numbers in their titles. Generating Content (Method One) NOTE: the first two videos in the above series illustrate […]
Initial Setup Download Duplicator Site For this exercise, please download the starter files and the screenshots collection, if I don’t distribute them in class. These are big files, so the download might be a bit longer than that for most of the files on this site. Most, but not all, of the screenshots for the […]
Categories
Imaginary Film Festival 2022
In this exercise, you will build a WordPress theme for an Imaginary Film Festival. You can use CSS or SASS. First, please download and install the starter content. This is a Duplicator package. Now please download this starter theme for your project. You must use this starter theme. Rename the folder your-name-iff, then put it […]
There are a number of approaches to the question of background images in WordPress. If you just used positioning (or possibly grid) to put the text on top of the image (centered, of course), you will have the advantage of that box getting its dimensions from the image itself. In this case, you would just […]
Categories
WordPress Vulnerability Statistics
If you are wondering what the most common vectors of compromise with WordPress based sites, the following page is an eye-opener. WP Scan: WordPress Vulnerability Statistics Here are statistics for 2022: The moral of this graphic: choose your plugins carefully.