In the fast-paced world of web development, agencies are constantly seeking ways to deliver high-quality WordPress themes faster without compromising code quality. AI-powered code generation tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, and other emerging platforms are revolutionizing how we approach theme development. This practical guide will show you how to leverage these tools effectively while maintaining…
In the past couple of days, many client sites have gotten notices from Google Webmaster Tools about being unable to access CSS and JS files. The most widespread issue was blocking of wp-content, wp-includes and wp-admin in the robots.txt file. Googlebot is now smart enough to not crawl these items by default, so they can…
We use Google Calendar for quite a few of our clients. They get a nice interface for managing their events, and we can leverage the API to display the content in various places. Both by using our own developed tools and by using plugins like Google Calendar Events. Just to cover all of the bases…
If you have a webpage with a very tall background image applied to your body element, Mobile Safari will try to show the entire image on the screen. This is different than desktop Safari and not what is expected to happen. Thankfully, there is a one line change to fix this: body{ -webkit-background-size: 2000px 1400px;}…
Alex Chan wrote a 1000 word blog post about a 35 line python script to archive his Pinboard bookmarks. Here’s what I’ve been using since I’ve started using Pinboard, which is close to Alex’s solution but only one line: curl https://ME:[email protected]/v1/posts/all?format=json -o ~/Dropbox/pinboard-backups/pinboard-`date +%y%m%d`.json This does not create separate yearly folders for the backups, and the output…
We participated in the HackVT 24-Hour Hackathon in Winooski this weekend. Although we did not get to complete the event due to a combination of prior commitments, injury (!!!) and a long wait for approval for a supplied API, we did get a nice, we think anyways, demo up. The app as it stands uses…
Here’s a quick demo of a Pinterest style interface for eBay auctions.
PhoneGap is a great framework for building native iOS, Android, etc apps with just HTML, CSS & JS. However, there is a slight misconfiguration in the way PhoneGap sets up new Xcode projects, and this will not allow 3rd party analytic packages to work correctly. Services such as Flurry and Tapjoy require you to add…