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WordPress Theme.json Validation & Code Hinting

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 […]

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Multiple Transition Exercise: Root Design Conference Speaker Page 2023

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.

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WordPress Configuration Exercise: Kadence Theme & Plugins

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 […]

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WordPress Templates Exercise: I Heart Cities, 2019 COPY

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 […]

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Graphics

Download: NewYork + Berlin City Images Unresized

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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 […]

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WordPress: How to use the Feature Image as a Background Image

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 […]

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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.

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WordPress Security Tips: SQL Injection Attacks

Structured Query Language (SQL) is probably the most common database language. An SQL Injection attack is done by abusing input fields on a website. Anyone attempting an SQL Injection attack will create malicious code that, when inserted in a vulnerable field, runs SQL commands to create, update, retrieve or delete data in the database. Nearly […]

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Sample Images for Custom Post Type Demo