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Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

May 21, 2013 — 9 Comments

That’s right! It’s time for some more keyboard shortcuts!

I spend hours of my day in Google Chrome during development. Everything from inspecting elements, breakpointing JavaScript, checking resources and the speed in which they load. I also spend a lot of time blogging and browsing. I have way too many tabs open each and every day.

I have learned and discovered a number of new shortcuts while pair programming with my fellow John Deere teammates. I figured I would share with all of you, since the opportunity for us to pair is probably slim.

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Using CSS Preprocessors With WordPress – What Are They?

I just wanted to quickly share my first post on WP Tuts+. It’s the first part of a three part series on CSS Preprocessors. If you are interested in using LESS with in your Standard Theme powered child themes, then I would highly suggest you follow the series.

This was a part of my internship with 8BIT, before I officially joined the team. I have to give a shout out to Tom McFarlin for editing my posts and setting up this opportunity. Thanks Tom!

Posted on May 20, 2013 In Child Themes
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Child Theming for a Rainy Day

May 20, 2013 — 1 Comment

I have created quite a few child themes for Standard Theme. Not only for clients, but contributed them to Github.

Why distribute them for free? Why spend time on them without being paid? Here’s why I do it.

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WordPress Shortcodes: A Complete Guide

I just did a little side project that required some shortcodes. This post from Smashing Magazine helped lots. They got lots of great WordPress goodies!

Posted on May 13, 2013 In Wordpress ,
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Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development

If you are serious about getting into WordPress plugin development, you should seriously think about signing up for this. It’s being led by my buddy Tom McFarlin.

Early Bird tickets are half-price at only $49, but places are strictly limited so act fast to make sure you don’t miss out!

I’m going to join myself. Anyone else considering it?

Posted on May 9, 2013 In Wordpress
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Locking Your Screen and Force Quit

May 7, 2013 — Leave a comment

I have some new keyboard shortcuts to share today. I have really been trying to force myself lately to strictly use my keyboard.

It’s always a good practice if you are in a common place to lock your screen. You never know what some people might tweet out from your account without your consent.

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I’m Officially on the 8BIT Team

Posted on May 6, 2013 In 8BIT
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Enable Hover in Chrome Inspector

May 6, 2013 — 6 Comments

Have you ever had trouble trying to style something that is hidden by default, but shown on hover? An example might be a dropdown that is only visible when you hover over it’s parent. Maybe you have a filter or background image that changes when you hover an element.

Your mouse can’t be in two places at once. You can’t hover over an element and add styling to it in the Inspector at the same time. Or can you?

Yes you can!

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Centered

May 2, 2013 — 2 Comments

There were quite a few requests in the Standard Theme support forums asking for the ability to center their navigation and its items. I went through the interwebs to look for examples on how to center Bootstrap Navbar items and came across this post on Stack Overflow. With some slight modifications, I was able to get both navs center aligned.

After I got the navbar items centered, I decided to continue down the path of centering other elements in a child theme. That’s when the Centered child theme was born.

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Last Week of Internship

Posted on April 29, 2013 In 8BIT
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