This is a quick guide to install font only for Photoshop CC (not windows).
I was updating one of my theme Chelonian and I copy-paste CSS from another theme. Chelonian is using Dashicons and the other theme is using Genericons. So I accidentally use genericons CSS in my style.css instead of using dashicons for calendar icon. Read More How to Install Font Only In Photoshop CC
What I mean by Dynamic Editor Style is adding CSS style based on user setting/option. For example you have a font option via the customizer where user can select font to use or maybe link color option like my previous tutorial about color option in customizer. Read More How To Add Dynamic Editor Style in WordPress
I’m not actually a fan of themes with tons of design options. I think as a designer, it’s our job to design theme.
However, it’s not always a bad idea to let user express their creativity.
Last weekend, I create another theme. Nevertheless, a simple one with classic design. And this time I create several color options for it. Usually I prefer “refresh” transport method for my themes, because it’s works, easier to code (and maintain in the future). But because this is a simple theme, I get it done relatively quickly. So I decide to “play” and use “postMessage” transport method for the color options.
There are problems I found when implementing this, and I want to share my solution.
Here’s the theme, you can download and check the source code:
Read More How to use Customize API “postMessage” Method for Color Options
Well, there was a time when I need to remove admin color scheme option. And this how I do that.
I was building a complex site with several user role, and to make it easier to know which user role I use to login, I set each user role to use different admin color scheme and disable admin color option in profile edit.
It’s actually pretty simple. And I will also explain the coding process, how to learn to code something in WordPress. (I’m sure it’s pretty useful trick if you wants to learn to code/problem solving in WP). Read More How To Remove WordPress Admin Color Scheme Option
That was actually a question by a fellow WordPress designer/developer when he realized his code didn’t work (I’ll explain the problem below).
It’s actually a simple mistake and can be avoided if we use “refresh” transport method when creating customizer option. But I do understand that “postMessage” transport method is better (but needed more code).
So here’s a little example. I create a twentyfifteen child theme with customizer setting to hide/show header area. Read More How to use Customize API “postMessage” Method to Hide/Show Element
Adding admin notice on plugin activation can be super useful. For example we can:
If you ever try to create an “Admin Notice” on plugin activation. You’ll know that using admin_notices action inside your “activation hook function” will not work. But there’s a workaround for that. Read More How to Create Admin Notice On Plugin Activation
It’s very easy to create settings page in WordPress. But sometimes in our plugin we only need a single/few options. And creating dedicated settings page just for this option is overkill.
That’s what I think when I write “f(x) Private Site” Plugin yesterday. You can download the plugin for a full code example:
When it make sense, we can add settings to WordPress default settings page such as “General Settings”, Writing Settings”, “Reading Settings”, etc. And this is how to do that. Read More How to Add Settings Section in WordPress Default Settings
If you build a plugin that require template modification, it might be a good idea to bundle an example theme in your plugin. And here’s how to do it. Read More How to Bundle Theme(s) in a Plugin
My first plugin at WordPress.org ! f(x) Share.
Wow. that feels great.
WordPress Dashboard Widget API is my favorite API in WordPress and sometimes dashboard is my preferred admin page to add simple settings in client site. It’s the screen they will see when they logged in. Why not use it more?
In this post I want to share a little about how to properly save the dashboard meta box “Configuration” with the build in nonce validation.
I read a lot of tutorial but no mention about this, I don’t even find any reference in Codex page. Read More Validation in WordPress Dashboard Widget API
So, last month I bought a new laptop. I actually bought two laptop. The first one is an Acer laptop. Use it for a week, not very happy with it. So I bought Asus.
I spent several days to set up and install the laptops. I think it’s a good idea to documented it here.
I hope this post will be useful for folks who want to do web development in windows.
So, I did some test for WordPress 4.4 beta3 new feature: Responsive Images. And it will make your content retina ready automatically! Awesome.
Not only that, it will also serve smaller image to low res device and it will make your site load faster to the less capable mobile device. Read More Responsive Image In WordPress 4.4 (Testing, Thoughts, etc)
