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jQuery Masonry and WordPress Galleries

February 16, 2013July 11, 2020 Will Rees 81 Comments

Did you know that WordPress comes prepackaged with jQuery Masonry? WordPress comes prepackaged with a ton of jQuery libraries that are super easy to include in your theme development. Here is a quick five minute tutorial to turn the standard WordPress image gallery into a pretty slick jQuery Masonry gallery.

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Responsive YouTube oEmbeds in WordPress

February 27, 2015April 16, 2021 Will Rees 14 Comments

oEmbeds are an easy way to include video and other media from specific sites on your WordPress site. However, they aren’t repsonsive, so let’s fix that!

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Create and Manage a Nivo Slider using WordPress Custom Post Types

May 8, 2013July 3, 2014 Will Rees 45 Comments

Let’s say that you want to create a standalone Nivo Slider on a WordPress powered site. You have a couple of options. You can always purchase and download the Nivo WordPress plugin. I know lots of developers that have purchased and used this plugin with great success. The price of the plugin is only $20 […]

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Nivo Slider Swipe Navigation for Touch Screens

February 23, 2013July 12, 2014 Will Rees 26 Comments

Swipe left and right to navigate either a new Nivo Slider or one that already exists on your site.

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Show the Latest Update Time and Date for a WordPress Page or Post

June 8, 2013June 28, 2013 Will Rees 5 Comments

A blog post is something you do not typically go back and edit. It’s a one and done piece of content. However, sometimes there is a reason to go back and change content in a post, or more likely, to update the content on a page. I like my visitors to know the last time […]

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Make CSS changes go live immediately

March 21, 2013June 28, 2013 Will Rees 3 Comments

Browsers will not always apply CSS changes right away. Sometimes the end user will have to refresh the page to force the browser to dump and rebuild the cache. This isn’t a massive problem during development, but once the site goes into production it can become problematic. Here are two solutions I use to make […]

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jQuery Masonry Image Gallery Beta Testing

May 20, 2014January 23, 2015 Will Rees 3 Comments

Please help me out by Beta testing the latest (and hopefully greatest) version of jQuery Masonry Image Gallery. This new version has an option for LazyLoad (the most popular request) and should help with load times on larger galleries. If you are interested, please put in your name and email below I will reach out […]

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Optimize PNG Files in the WordPress Uploads Folder with Grunt

May 21, 2014May 25, 2014 Will Rees 1 Comment

Learn how to speed up load times and improve SEO by optimizing image files in your WordPress Uploads folder using Grunt and a couple of Grunt Plugins.

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Use Superfish to Create A.D.A. Compliant Drop Down Menus in WordPress

July 28, 2013July 29, 2013 Will Rees Leave a comment

Be aware that this tutorial requires WordPress 3.6 or above to work correctly. If you are using an older version of WordPress, you will run into issues because of the older version of hoverIntent. Please follow these instructions to ensure Superfish works correctly with WordPress 3.5.2 and below. Typically, only the parent links of a drop […]

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Synchronizing Values between Advanced Custom Fields and the WordPress Customizer

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 Will Rees Leave a comment

Advanced Custom Fields has been part of my WordPress toolbox for a few years. I used standard custom fields as long as I could, but at a certain point I needed a solution with a more power and customization abilities. My two favorite features are Repeater fields (the most super glorious UI for end user array generation) […]

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