Web Development

Importing content to WordPress from a Local installation.

To properly import media along with posts you need to do a work around with the import tool. WordPress out of the box expects that the media will be available on a live website and is unable to import from a local installation. This post gives the outline of what is needed: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/87395/import-media-to-online-wordpress-from-local-development More explicitly: […]

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Website Performance – Optimization with Lighthouse

This is a placeholder for my notes on using Lighthouse to optimize performance of WordPress sites. Tooling Lighthouse is a tool provided by Google to help site owners measure and improve performance. Here is a link to the documentation: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/ The code and documentation is open source and is available on github: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse Lighthouse CLI

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Gatsby WooCommerce Meetup

Jacob’s talk has been posted to YouTube Here’s the links he mentioned in his talk –  -Repo: https://github.com/jacobarriola/gatsby-woocommerce-oc-wordpress-meetup – Blog post about Headless Checkout: https://jacobarriola.com/post/headless-woocommerce-stripe-checkout-graphql Also there is WPGraphQL JWT Authentication plugin:https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql-jwt-authentication

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Frontity Theme Building Workshop

This workshop from JSNation conference in June of 2020 provides a detailed introduction on how to create a Frontity theme. The above video includes the entire 3 hour workshop. This github repo contains the detailed contents of the workshop as well as the example code: https://github.com/frontity-demos/2020-06-jsnation-workshop Addendum – Connecting to Gutenberg This detailed post references

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CSS Resources

This post is a placeholder for some resources I have been studying as keeping everything alive in my browser tabs is becoming burdensome and has always been fragile in the first place. CSS Grid Jen Simmons – Layout land Videos on CSS Grid Layout Land YouTube channel Rachael Andrews Grid by Example Mozilla – Firefox

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Modern CSS

Recently I have been spending time re-learning my approach to CSS. I was prompted to do this by the urging of my friend, Chris Melby, who nagged and shamed me into learning CSS grid for layout. So finally I found the time to look at this and it has become a true eye opener. I

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