CSS

Particularly for use on the home page when design layouts do not include title text in the content area.

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Setup a stylesheet for the default login screen, and update the heading url.

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Weekday Countdown

php

October 20, 2021

Worked on a subscription service website recently that had specific weekly cutoffs for ordering in order to have ordering available for the following week.

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Use this in your theme’s stylesheet to customize the loading gif shown when Woocommerce Cart, Products, and Checkout are loading.

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Compatibility requests with older browsers are becoming less frequent, but we had another one recently, and I wanted to give it a try while still utilizing our favourite plugins.

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Ran into an issue with an e-commerce Product quantity field where the up / down arrows would not show, and were required to indicate more than one item could be purchased.

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The Google Font Library is a great resource for free fonts.

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SVGs, when resized, will not scale in proportion in older versions of Internet Explorer.

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Offset Anchor Tag

HTML

January 09, 2019

Working with CSS fixed headers and HTML anchor tags can be a little tricky. The jump point will need to be offset by the height of the header, and other fixed elements.

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Using fixed backgrounds on mobile devices can be tricky, as not all mobile devices support background-attached: fixed.

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Ever wonder how to set the background colour for the page when printing via CSS?

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This method comes in handy if you’re working with plugins and are unable to edit theme files, or external files at the risk of losing your styles with an update.

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Great for drop downs, fly outs, and mobile menus.

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jSON Instagram Slider

jQuery

October 25, 2017

Create a custom Instagram slider for your site using jSON and the following instructions…

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CSS Slide-Reveal Search Field

HTML

September 20, 2017

Use HTML and CSS to toggle reveal the search input field. 

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Use this function if you find yourself having to force your CSS styles with !important in your Child Theme.

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Target IE with Media Queries

CSS

November 23, 2016

These are my go-to media queries when browser testing different versions of Internet Explorer

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You can achieve more stylistic versatility within your WordPress backend, and theme, if you’re able to inject fonts within the WYSIWYG editor.

This is possible if you are using embedded fonts, or if you are using fonts from a hosted library using the below function, and the Advanced TinyMCE plugin addon.

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Cross browser testing mobile devices can be very confusing when you take into account the various resolutions different devices.

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This is a great and simple way to keep lists in alpha or numerical order, while splitting up the content to make it easier for the reader to digest.

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Sub-navigation must be in a container

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Mobile Stylesheet

CSS

July 21, 2015

My default mobile stylesheet.

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My starter stylesheet when starting new projects:

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Absolute Positioning

CSS

July 15, 2015

To centre an image inside of a div

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Adding Border Radius to iFrame

CSS

September 18, 2014

IFrames can be difficult to customize.  If you want to add a border, or a box shadow to them, it can be simpler to do so if you wrap them in a parent div, and apply the necessary changes to this container.  Border-radius will work with a parent div, when you couple it with overflow: hidden; forcing the clipping of the contained elements, and giving the illusion of the effect you’re looking for.

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