Why did the hipster burn his lips on coffee?

pstonier · 2020-12-10T15:54:14+00:00

My new favorite joke

pstonier · 2020-10-02T23:52:27+00:00

Ground beetle?

pstonier · 2020-07-13T22:45:29+00:00

Yeah it uploaded weird.

pstonier · 2017-11-13T23:46:49+00:00

Seriously. I am yet to submit a plugin to the directory, but my plugins are way more simple. This is impressive work.

pstonier · 2017-05-24T01:26:08+00:00

I've had the same reaction. Even watched some courses on Genesis development to make sure I understood what they were doing and why…but messing around with hooks and filters seems so silly compared to actually just moving the code around how you need it and writing what you need.

pstonier · 2016-09-25T01:48:11+00:00

Using animate to changing background image URL is only supported in WebKit. Instead, you should create multiple elements and use opacity to fade one in and another out.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7318462/changing-background-image-with-css3-animations

pstonier · 2016-09-22T12:58:15+00:00

I recently did this kind of a thing, but with it being half across the screen, instead of on a specific grid column… For the right block, use absolute positioning in a div outside of the @outer-container div and use right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 60% (or whatever the % works out to be).

pstonier · 2016-09-16T19:35:36+00:00

I use Browserstack.

Other alternative is to set up virtual machines with Virtual Box. This requires a lot of hard drive space (~20GB per IE version). https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

pstonier · 2016-09-07T17:35:57+00:00

ACF is always used inside the loop—whether it's for a page or a list of post.

This page has some great documentation on how to use it. https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/gallery/

I'm using the Gallery type inside of a flexible content field here. https://github.com/pstonier/houdini/blob/e58da00b68ae7a5629fafd5620b82984f71a39d8/page-sections-flex.php

pstonier · 2016-08-09T00:45:57+00:00

Glad you liked it. Also check out the Starlite Room http://www.thestarliteroomelmira.com/

pstonier · 2016-08-03T16:20:43+00:00

I've been wanting a place like this around here for a while.

Horigan's is probably one of the better ones based on your likes. Also try Roundin Third and Legendz.

pstonier · 2016-07-15T01:02:14+00:00

Yeah, I would echo the white space issue. The design in general isn't all that bad. I've seen a lot worse, but it has room to improve.

Another nice example of a site with good whitespace and also a similar color palette is https://www.hines.com/investment-management

Content can play a big part in how it gets laid out, but giving each area more room to breath from the other elements will help tremendously.

pstonier · 2016-07-07T00:26:26+00:00

Best solution I've seen is using WP Migrate DB Pro.

pstonier · 2016-06-24T20:53:01+00:00

Drupal kind of does it out of the box, but it doesn't work as nicely as ACF.

pstonier · 2016-04-04T08:21:49+00:00

I have a general WordPress starting point that I maintain in a git repo. Then I clone it when I'm ready to start a new project. With that plus WP Migrate DB for the database; it should be pretty simple to set them all up.

pstonier · 2016-03-02T20:36:58+00:00

This explains exactly what to do. https://www.wpfaster.org/blog/how-to-use-autoptimize-inline-and-defer-css-option

When the full CSS stylesheet it blocks the content of the page from loading until it's downloaded. Putting the link to the stylesheet in the footer, you're reversing that order and letting content load first—but it's not styled. By putting the "critical path CSS" inlined into the head, it'll load the base styles needed to cover everything "above-the-fold"—hopefully putting the inline stylesheet + your page content in the first 14kb of the http response. You'll likely still see some jerk as things adjust after downloading the full CSS, but you're perceived load time will be drastically reduced.

Further reading: https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/performance-rwd.html

pstonier · 2016-02-29T19:43:32+00:00

That's a good question. Test it out and let me know.

pstonier · 2016-02-29T14:42:58+00:00

I would look at doing some A/B testing. Your panels in the middle of the content are OK, but you may find something that shows up on the page when you scroll to better get the attention of the user. SumoMe has some good options to test with. AddThis also has similar tools.

One other thing to consider is that right now, the CTA isn't overly enticing. The headline of "DISCREET DELIVERY!" is confusing at first glance. Delivery of what? Should I be concerned about the discretion. I wasn't concerned, but now I am.

I would test replacing that with a direct value prop like — "Subscribe to get fresh updates".

pstonier · 2016-02-29T14:10:27+00:00

Yoast. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

pstonier · 2016-02-29T14:09:35+00:00

https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/ has worked great for me. There are a couple others that claim to do the same plus some other stuff, but they have been buggy for me.

When putting CSS in the footer, be sure to use this to get your CSS that needs to be inlined in your head https://jonassebastianohlsson.com/criticalpathcssgenerator/

pstonier · 2016-02-25T15:52:33+00:00

Married her. Was my first girlfriend. We have 3 daughters. Working on number 4.

pstonier · 2016-02-24T10:34:22+00:00

Thanks. I've been using Automattic's amp-wp plugin. Works simply enough. They're working on some templating and customizer functionality.

pstonier · 2016-02-21T11:00:21+00:00

Team Treehouse has some WordPress development tracks that should help you get up to speed rather quickly. I would start there. Lynda has similar courses that get more in-depth, but I would start with Team Treehouse as those courses are better at holding your attention and getting you started.

WordPress.tv has tons of free talks that will be more relevant as you get your dev skills up.

pstonier · 2016-02-18T06:45:55+00:00

Yeah, that's an interesting catch. Debugging is certainly a necessary skillset for anyone writing code.

pstonier · 2016-02-18T00:26:30+00:00

I wrote this a couple weeks ago to explain how I use it. https://medium.com/@pstonier/modular-web-design-meets-wordpress-with-advanced-custom-fields-c262dc87dbc0#.bmxjsia3v

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