For better or worse, Google’s AMP project is out there now, and as long as it is a thing, then hearing the news that WordPress is AMP-ready, is for the better…
And since we’re already drinking the WordPress Kool-Aid, let’s take a run through “just a few” WPMU DEV posts on how to set-up, tighten, and customize, a WordPress project:
- Setting Up WordPress Like a Pro
- The WordPress wp-config File: A Comprehensive Guide
- WordPress Security: The Ultimate Guide (might want to also scan through 12 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Site You’ve Probably Overlooked, it has a few repeats, but just in case you overlooked something in the first article…)
- The Power User’s Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Admin Area
- 12 Not-So-Obvious WordPress Tweaks to Improve Posts and Pages
- 9 Awesome and Obscure WordPress Features You Didn’t Know Existed
- Using Gulp to Speed Up WordPress Development
And since we’re already drinking the Build Tool Kool-Aid, let’s have a look at 6 PostCSS plugins for Developers.
And once you’ve got your CSS all nicely modernized, make sure it is as lean as it can be by running it through TestMyCSS. Does a nice job of picking up long selectors, duplicate statements, duplicate selectors, and more! Does not do such a nice job of fetching CSS files from HTTPS, and I don’t see an “upload” option. Bummer, but still a great tool!
And if you’d like, here are a few more CSS tips and tricks, via a very cute delivery method…
Several great options for implementing automatic art-directed cropping for responsive images.
Three more death-blows to Flash…
- as the New York Times switches from Flash to HTML5 video players,
- media-delivery powerhouse Brightcove switches from Flash to HTML5, and
- some company called Google promises to stop running Flash display ads in 2017!
And with the continuing demise of Flash, let us remember that another aging comrade-in-arms is also soon dying: IE. And with that death will come much suddenly-superfluous code… But how to even start that clean-up? Fret not, as SitePoint is here to help with a few post-IE spring cleaning tips!
From The Paciello Group, comes a short note on the use of alt="" and the title attribute on img elements. TL;DR: Use alt, who cares about title?
One more from The Paciello Group, and one more regarding accessibility, here are a few basic screen reader commands for accessibility testing. You know, like we all do, right?
Okay, one more accessibility item, though really more of a browser/testing/support item, is this page of HTML5 elements, all with minimal styling, meant to help with cross-device support testing, as well as a single document to test your new CSS on.
If you’re looking at add a CSP security header to a project, getting the options just right can be a bit of a task, leaving you with either security holes or content/functionality breaking. So let Diogo Mónica walk you through fine-tuning your CSP header.
And finally, I think someone (read: Not it!) should convert this list of untranslatable words into a Lorem Ipsum-style content generator… :-)
Happy reading,
Atg