I was writing a feature where I was on the client side writing the iframe code for a video oEmbed. This causes a delay while the content is loaded in the iframe. It behaves like an AJAX request in a sense. I discovered that the iframe raises a ‘load’ event when the content finishes loading. […]
I am creating some custom WordPress code and using my current favorite bundler, Parcel. I decide this time to take a hint from the source code of TwentyTwentyOne theme and use chokidar-cli to write my watch scripts directly. Watch has always been flakely for me, but so far this seems to be working out well.
I have mentioned in a few posts that I have been studying methods to speed up or perhaps more accurately, improve Lighthouse based page speed scores, for WordPress sites. As a test case I am using this site with it’s modest (aka cheap, shitty, shared) hosting. So far the results have been encouraging enough for
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This is a placeholder for setup instructions for my current go-to solution for sliders and carousels – Glidejs. Probably should mention why I like Glide: No jQuery dependency. Has all the options I have ever needed. Easy npm install and configuration. Easy to integrate across any platform I have tried so far.
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This is a placeholder to discuss the misconceptions regarding the JavaScript programming language, the DOM, and Web API interfaces present in the browser environment. These are distinct and this is not always a clear distinction. I think that some of the quirks and inconsistencies blamed on JavaScript are the result of the browser API implementation.
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I am reading this great article on building a responsive and accessible slider. I may implement something like this on a site I am working on.
My thought has been that the Gutenberg block editor is the future of WordPress. Here is a nice article about a new block based theme with lots of links supporting the case. I want to check out this podcast about recent developments (as of 4/2021) in full site editing: Talking Full Site Editing with Matías
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I wrote before on using Lighthouse to measure website performance and on speeding up WordPress. Today I found this interesting article regarding Core Web Vitals, the push by Google to make these a factor in ranking search results, and how the burden seemingly falls on the publisher of the site to improve these parameters rather
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I found a video gallery format that I like. This is CNN’s video gallery. I created a video gallery test page to try different options.
It should be no surprise that embedding a Google Map on your page might kill performance, but what was a surprise was that proper placement of the map on the page combined with lazy loading and prefetching can provide a decent experience and a high Lighthouse/PageSpeed Insights performance score. I created a test page in
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