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This is a bit of fun for the festive season.
24ways is an online advent calendar for anyone interested in web design and development. For each day of December leading up to Christmas, the site will deliver a new tidbit of useful web wisdom.
First up on the menu is a tutorial on creating custom font stacks with the unicode-range. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
They’ve been running this site every year since 2005, so you can browse through the archives at your leisure. Enjoy!
We recently reviewed DesktopServer, an exciting new WordPress tool that allows you to create a WordPress development environment in seconds. It one of the quickest and easiest ways to set up a development environment for Mac and Windows users and has quickly become an irreplaceable part of my workflow.
The Copy Feature
DesktopServer has a cool new feature in both the free and premium versions that allows you to quickly and easily copy your development sites.
I love to try out new ways to set up test environments for WordPress, in hopes of finding the most ideal development set up. DesktopServer is one that I found particularly easy to set up, even for non-technical persons. It is a free product from ServerPress that is suitable for Mac and Windows users alike. I mentioned DesktopServer in 10 Ways to Set Up a Testing Environment for WordPress. After giving it a test run, it was so outstanding that I wanted to go a little more in depth for our readers.
It’s very important to have an environment where you can test new themes and plugins without breaking your live site. That’s why many WordPress site administrators choose to set up a staging ground for exploring new options and then committing them to the live site after thorough testing. We’ve put together a list of some of the best ways to set up a testing environment. The local environments will depend on your operating system. Bookmark your favorites and start working unplugged!
DeployMint
ConvertMyFlash is a must-have service for any company still running a flash-based website. The concept is simple. In 72 hours, ConvertMyFlash will take your Flash site and convert it into an HTML5 site powered by WordPress 3.0, fully migrating your content and deploying it in place of your old site.
Instant WordPress is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It turns any Windows machine into a WordPress development server and can even run from a USB key. Yes, it’s that portable!
Since our new version was made live we’ve had several requests for some behind the scenes posts. In response to this here is our first in which we are going to take you behind the scenes a little to see some of the things that make this site run.
HTML 5 has landed
The theme now is fully HTML5. WordPress itself adapts so nicely to HTML5.
Just take a look at this format for a post.
{code type=php}
Fluency Admin is a plugin that’s been around for over a year but has kept a fairly low profile so far. It adds a different style and some extra customization to the WordPress admin area.
This is one of the default styles the plugin comes with but you can also set your own colors:
Some of the cool features of Fluency Admin:
Stylish dark-on-light colours
Hover activated sub-menus
Custom color schemes
Customise WordPress with your logo
Access menus using ‘hot keys’
WordPress 3.2 has a new conditional tag that may come in handy for theme developers and users who are customizing multi-author WordPress sites. These are sites where the admin user is not the only one writing posts.
Here’s a new tool for your conditional tag toolbox: is_multi_author()
This template tag makes it easier for themes to have different behavior when a site has more than one author writing posts. is_multi_author() checks to see if more than one author has published posts for the site and returns true or false.
If you’re an adventurous WordPress fan, you may be interested to test some of the student projects from the Google Summer of code. They’re easy to test, as many of them come in plugin form and are in working condition. Get in on the action and explore the available projects, including:
File Uploader
Language Packs
Document Revisions
Local Storage drafts backup
Courseware/learn.wordpress.org
Enhanced emails
Threaded Comments
Extending WP Webservices
Refresh Android app UI
WordPress Move
Template Versioning
