Category: Web Development

New theme: Chaplin by Anders Norén

I've been a fan of Norén for a long time. Today when I decided to give this blog a facelift, his new theme Chaplin seemed like the perfect jump start.

WordPress vs the JAM stack?

I love the JAM stack. I love working with Jekyll (for static HTML sites), JavaScript, and APIs. But I also like WordPress a little more than this guy..

Scaffolding an Angular + Bootstrap App

Fountainjs is a good way to scaffold your app if you want it built with Gulp, Sass and Webpack. This post is about adding Bootstrap the the mix—and how to fix everything that Bootstrap breaks.

Pagination with UI-Router and WP-API

The key to this is knowing what Angular's ui-router can do. This post by Aviv Ben-Yosef was very helpful: Simple pagination and URL params with ui-router.

Nice Quora ask

What are the most interesting HTML/JS/DOM/CSS hacks that most web developers don’t know about?…

oikos get attachment link filter

oikos get attachment link filter This fixes a flaw in the WP gallery shortcode. The problem is that when you make a gallery, and you set link to "file", it links to the original. That might be a 10M jpeg. This function links to the large instead of the original. On every site with galleries, I install lightbox and this nice little filter.