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eBooks

Building WordPress Themes from Scratch
Walk through the steps you need to build your very own WordPress theme! Included with the book is an example WordPress theme and other necessary files, so...
Joe Casabona
7 Aug 2012
Code

Tutorials

Understanding How WordPress Images Work (For Better Responsive Design)
In this article, we will talk about How WordPress handles images, creating new image sizes, and leveraging this for better Responsive Design.
Joe Casabona
27 Jun 2014
Code
The Web Designer's Guide to Google Glass
As I look up into the screen just above my right eye, I think about all of the things Google Glass is: the future, a communication device (and a great one at...
Joe Casabona
25 Jul 2013
Web Design
Quick Tip: Automatically Link Twitter Handles With a Content Filter
A few days ago I was working on a blog post on my personal blog about some recent stories. I wanted to attribute those stories to the proper source/author,...
Joe Casabona
20 Jul 2012
Code
The Rise of HTML5 in WordPress
2011 was a big year for the advancement of HTML5 in the web development community. It became pretty widely adopted, especially for the mobile web. There have...
Joe Casabona
9 Jan 2012
Code
DIY WordPress Framework Part 4: Using the Framework as a Boiler Plate
Last time we used our framework as a child theme, creating a totally new theme that depends on the framework. Today we're going to use our framework as a...
Joe Casabona
21 Nov 2011
Code
DIY WordPress Framework Part 3: Using the Framework as a Child Theme
In the last installment of this series, we created our theme framework, which amounts to a fairly simple boilerplate, where we added some functionality that...
Joe Casabona
16 Nov 2011
Code
DIY WordPress Framework Part 2: Creating the Theme
When I last left you, we had looked at some design principles, explored other frameworks, and came to the inevitable conclusion that we'd build our own. In...
Joe Casabona
7 Nov 2011
Code
DIY WordPress Theme Framework Part 1: Defining Your Needs
One of the best things about my education at the University of Scranton was the recurring lesson we learned about reuse. Reuse is incredibly important in...
Joe Casabona
29 Oct 2011
Code
Create a Responsive Slider Plugin With FlexSlider for WordPress
Sliders seem to be all the rage these days, and for good reason! You can add photos, content, videos, and more to an eye-catching, animated area of your...
Joe Casabona
3 Oct 2011
Code
14 WordPress Plugins For SEO And Marketing
As a web developer, possibly the most common request I get from clients is that they want to be number one on Google. While this is not impossible, it's a...
Joe Casabona
13 Sep 2011
Code
Creating a Simple Child Theme Using Twenty Eleven
One of the first things I noticed when I started using WordPress was how well it employs the developer's mantra, "Separation of Concerns." In the programming...
Joe Casabona
6 Aug 2011
Code
Using Custom Post Types to Create a Killer Portfolio
Quite possibly the best addition to WordPress 3.0 was that of Custom Post Types. This took WordPress from being a CMS that can manage posts and pages to...
Joe Casabona
3 Aug 2011
Code