Web Development

Ngrok Frequently Asked Questions

I use pow, MAMP, WAMP, or another webserver which uses ‘virtual hosts’ to serve multiple development websites. Can I use ngrok to expose one of my sites?

Dropbox your MAMP MySQL Databases

First, figure out where MAMP stores your databases. if you are on MAMP Pro, they are located at

/Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/mysql/

Validating, Sanitizing, and Escaping

Overview

Your code works, but is it safe? When writing your theme and plugin code, you’ll need to be extra cautious of how you handle data coming into WordPress and how it’s presented to the end user. This commonly comes up when…

Object Oriented CSS

How do you scale CSS for thousands of pages? Object Oriented CSS is an answer. It’s an approach for writing CSS that’s fast, maintainable, and standards-based. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites. Nicole Sullivan first…

Frameworks? Parent, child, and grandchild themes?

One question that crops up every once in a while from my theme users is how to create a WordPress grandchild theme. Most of the time, a user asks, “How do I update my child theme? Do I need to create a grandchild theme?”

Manage large CSS projects with ITCSS

CSS architecture seems to be somewhat in vogue right now. It’s something you’ve no doubt heard…