Below are some of the Visual Studio Code Extensions I use and recommend: Live Server: automatically reloads browser when html or css files are saved Rainbow Brackets: colors bracket pairs. Very useful in JavaScript StyleLint: error checking for CSS File Utils: adds file management functionality (duplicate, rename, move, etc) VSCode-Random: generated random data. CSS Navigation: for searching […]
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The main focus of this exercise will be the use of JavaScript in WordPress. Setup First, please download the starter package. When you unzip the file, you will find a Duplicator installer and archive. Make a new database and install the site into your testing environment (most likely MAMP). Make a new SASS-based theme called […]
If you need to output the title of an archive in a WordPress theme, you could use functions like single_cat_title(), single_tag_title(), etc. The trouble, however, is that they’re limited to the type of archive (category, tag, etc) listed in the function name itself. A more versatile approach is to use the_archive_title function. It will work on any […]
Site Set Up First, please download these files. this duplicator archive WP site the graphics files for the site the screenshots Install the site in a new database in your testing environment. As part of the Duplicator site install, create a new admin account. In that process, include your real First and Last Name. For […]
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 […]
Open _posts-and-pages.scss from the SITE/PRIMARY folder. A big chunk of your home page styling can be taken care of if you explicitly define your grid columns and rows–particularly the rows. If you define the rows, the 1/-1 syntax to make the section-titles take the full column will also work with rows. Here are some starting […]
If we look at the screenshots, we see that we’ve got a few more things we need to do with the header and the footer of the site. First of all, each has a background image, or two. Hopefully, at the start of this exercise, you downloaded the background images and put them the theme […]
Original Task Content Generation Front Page Sectioning (very detailed) Content Template Part (Meta Data & Gravatar) Type Styling (more work needed) Layout : turn into a task. It isn’t done. One line in a file started. Add bg images.
Basic Gulp-Based SASS Build Process In order to use SASS in your WordPress development environment, download this zip archive. When you unpack the archive, you will have a folder called gulp-dev-for-wp. Inside that folder are two files: package.json and gulpfile.js. This build process assumes that either: you have installed npm and gulp-cli on your own […]
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