In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn about how to choose between low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes, discover a new Unsplash plugin for WordPress, discover how to improve legibility with CSS, and more. Continue reading July 24, 2020: My Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News
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How to Display Random Content on Your WordPress Site
When my client asked about a new page on their WordPress website, a page that would display random content in two sections of the page, I had a number of questions about what they envisioned.
- What were the goals for the two sections?
- Was the content already available?
- Was the content images? Graphs? Videos? Text?
- Would the content be a mix of text and imagery?
- Would each piece of content link to another post or page on the client’s site? Or to an external site?
- What was the expected behavior for the two sections of content?
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Quick Tip: How to Maintain a Consistent Look for Buttons in GeneratePress
One of my latest projects is transitioning an existing GeneratePress site to the WordPress block editor.
If you’re not familiar with it, GeneratePress is a popular WordPress theme. I like using it because it’s lightweight, well-coded, and offers a wealth of customization options.
Overall the transition project has gone well.
No major issues, though I needed to invest time to review what blocks worked well for the content on 80+ pages and posts.
But I did came across a potentially troubling issue with styling buttons. Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Maintain a Consistent Look for Buttons in GeneratePress