This is a blog about design, front-end development, WordPress and other random musings by Liam Jay
Have you ever thought about how to make external links user-friendly and accessible? Hyperlinks serve as the web’s connective tissue, ubiquitously woven into the fabric of online content. Their pervasive nature means that the design and operational aspects of hyperlinks, particularly external ones, typically escape our attention. Yet, as we delve deeper, we uncover the… Continue Reading +
A brief explanation on the difference between WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL in WordPress If you’ve done any development work with WordPress then you’ve probably noticed two similar looking rows in the database. Specifically WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL. These two have always confused me. To set the URL of your site you need to use the WP_HOME constant,… Continue Reading +
If you’ve ever needed to display featured products through a custom loop in WooCommerce on one of your custom template pages, this snippet of code is what I’ve been using for WooCommerce 3 and above. You’ll need to wrap this in a list element possibly with a class of “products” depending on your css. <?php… Continue Reading +
Getting SSL on MAMP can be a pain. For local development you can use self signed certs. To overcome the problems relating to local dev on OSX. I do the following: Please note, I am using Google Chrome for this and have not tested in on any other browsers. Create your certificate and serve it… Continue Reading +
How to make a GDPR Compliant Contact Form. This post is more for my own future reference than anything else, so I can use it when I need to make a GDPR Compliant Contact Form, but it might be of some help to others too. I’m sure by now, almost everyone in the web industry… Continue Reading +
Technically this isn’t much of a blog post, but I saw a great quote by Jeremy Keith on the subject of CSS simplicity and wanted to share it as it mirrors most of my own feelings on the subject. Unlike a programming language that requires knowledge of loops, variables, and other concepts, CSS is pretty easy… Continue Reading +
I’ve always found list items ‹li› pretty easy to work with, but recently I had an issue where I needed to target the last item in the list, but only if it was an odd number. Pretty easy if the number of list items is fixed, but more of a challenge if the number can… Continue Reading +
Do I need to use Grunt? Do I need to use Gulp? Do I need to use Sass? Do I need to use React? I see people asking these type of questions a lot, and I think the answer should be to ask what problems each of those things is trying to solve and do… Continue Reading +