This article on lazy loading for WordPress was originally published by Torque Magazine, and is reproduced here with permission. Adding lazy load to your WordPress website is an effective tool to speed up your WordPress website. We have written extensively (we even made a case study) about how slow page …
This article was created in partnership with Mekanism. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. 2019 is the best year to become successful, to launch your own online or offline business, to invent a product or service, or to grow your business into a huge corporation. Because …
This article was originally published on MongoDB. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Not unlike other startups, Blinkist grew its roots in a college dorm. Only, its creators didn’t know it at the time. It took years before the founders decided to build a business on …
We’re working hard to keep you on the cutting edge of your field with SitePoint Premium. We’ve got plenty of new books to check out in the library — let us introduce you to them. A Beginner’s Guide to Webpack When using JavaScript module bundler webpack for the first time, …
You’re going to be asked to do it. At some point, if it hasn’t happened already, your coworkers or your boss will ask you to do something foolish. Something you know will make things worse for you, your coworkers, maybe even the business itself. If you’re like most developers, you …
The following introduction to CSS minification tools is an extract from Tiffany’s upcoming book, CSS Master, 2nd Edition, which will be available shortly. On your road to becoming a CSS master, you’ll need to know how to troubleshoot and optimize your CSS. How do you diagnose and fix rendering problems? …
SitePoint Premium gives you an entire collection of books covering developer essentials like Pug, Gulp, Git and more. Join now. As web designers or developers, we likely all have to write our fair share of HTML. And while this is not the most difficult task, it can often feel a …
Our CSSBattle Code Challenge requires some ‘outside the square’ CSS thinking. Here are four pro tips to get you started on the right track. The post Code Challenge #2: 4 Tips for Higher Scores in CSSBattle.dev appeared first on SitePoint. Source: Site Point
It’s practically impossible to imagine any dashboard without graphs and charts. They present complex statistics quickly and effectively. Additionally, a good graph also enhances the overall design of your website. In this article, I’ll show you some of the best JavaScript libraries for graphs / charts. These libraries will help …
This sponsored article was created by our content partner, BAW Media. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. You either hate pop-ups, or you love them. And if you say you love them, you’re probably lying. It isn’t so much the popups themselves that irritate people. It’s …
In this article, we’ll complete our foray into building a WordPress theme from scratch, focusing on refining our templates, adding meta information, post thumbnails, sidebars, user-friendly controls and more. This is the third, and last part of the WordPress series on building a WordPress theme. Part 1 introduced WordPress theming, …
This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. WordPress’ simple theme development is partly responsible for its success. A developer with front-end and PHP knowledge can consult the excellent Codex and get started on their next …
This article was originally published on the Okta developer blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. JavaScript is used everywhere on the web – nearly every web page will include at least some JavaScript, and even if it doesn’t, your browser probably has some sort of …
This article was originally published on the Okta developer blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Authentication on the internet has evolved quite a bit over the years. There are many ways to do it, but what worked well enough in the 90s doesn’t quite cut …
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Developers spend precious little time coding. Even if we ignore irritating meetings, much of the job involves basic tasks which can sap your working day: generating HTML from templates and content files compressing new and modified images compiling Sass to CSS code removing console and debugger statements from scripts transpiling …
This article was originally published on LambdaTest. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. When you develop a website, going live is like a dream come true. But then you notice things going wrong after launch and it quickly becomes a nightmare. A friend of mine was …
This sponsored article was created by our content partner, BAW Media. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Some WordPress users tend to avoid using multipurpose themes. They do so for reasons that would seem to make common sense. They subscribe to a popular saying – "jack …
This article was originally published by Torque Magazine, and is reproduced here with permission. Starting completely from scratch when developing themes naturally means you’re free to do anything you’d like. This opens up plenty of room for creative freedom, but getting started can take up a lot of time. Many …
The use of mobile devices has increased considerably in the past decade. It has been over two years since mobile browsing took over desktop. The usability of mobile devices has exploded, too. Mobile devices now come with huge processing power. We often dismiss mobile platforms as serious workhorses for developers, …
