Beginning WordPress

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
February 13, 2016

WordPress Development with Gulp

Here's how we develop WordPress websites using Sass and Gulp. At least for this week. We use it to compile Sass, concatenate and minify…
November 4, 2014

Update MAMP Pro

The updating process with most Mac software is painless, especially App Store apps. Not so with MAMP. Since I have such a hard time…
August 29, 2014

From Codekit to Grunt and back

I've used Codekit since the day I started with Sass. It helped me understand Sass and make my CSS authoring fun again. A few…
July 16, 2014

Quickly edit post tags and categories in WordPress

Here's how to quickly edit categories and tags on a WordPress post, or multiple posts: Quick Edit The posts page in WordPress admin has…
March 25, 2014

Codekit 2.0, WordPress, and MAMP

I upgraded to Codekit 2.0 a few days ago and so far it's great. I thought the browser refresh feature was broken but it…
September 26, 2013

Text only Pinterest link

As I've said a few times before, I prefer to keep control over the look of the social links that appear on this site.…
September 22, 2013

Change post date in WordPress

Here's a super simple tip on how to change the date in WordPress. Two tips actually. Quick Edit The main posts page in the…
September 11, 2013

Text only Google+ share link

I don't really care for the standard social media share links. It's not that they're ugly per-se, it's that they rarely fit a design…
September 6, 2013

Increase upload file size on Media Temple (dv)

Are you having trouble increasing the maximum allowed file upload size on a site hosted on a Media Temple (dv) server? You've probably come…
January 15, 2013

Nested retina media queries with Sass

Since switching from LESS to Sass I've been excited to learn how Sass makes responsive web design easier with @content blocks and @media mixins.…