Why Using reduce() to Sequentially Resolve Promises Works
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A post on CSS Tricks in which I explore why JavaScript’s reduce() method is able to help sequentually resolve a collection of Promise objects.
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Introducing Better Resource Hints for WordPress
/ 308It’s easy to rattle off a bunch of ways you can improve the performance of your website: minify your CSS & JSoptimize your imagescache the crap out of ituse a CDNetc.Those are all important, but there’s also a more modern, less-discussed approach that can almost immediately earn you some serious performance
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Using the posts_where Filter in WordPress
/ 9,980If you’ve spent 20 seconds in WordPress development, you’ve likely worked with, cursed, and fallen in love with the WP_Query class – one of the most useful, commonly used tools in any given WordPress website or application.Aside from being responsible for the main query on any given page or post,
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Preloading JavaScript Assets in WordPress
/ 21,980Squeezing every last drop of performance out of your website on any platform is an always-changing, never-ending, often addictive battle.Among the several tactics you can employ in this fight, leveraging resource hints is a modern approach that can yield some significant ROI – with preloading is a particularly impactful place
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Creating the Simplest WordPress Plugin
/ 1,161If you’re making modifications to the functionality of your WordPress site or application, there are generally two places where people put the code to do it.A theme’s functions.php file.A plugin.Given the choice, which option should you almost always choose?A plugin.Why? The list of reasons is longer than this, but here
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Let’s Stop Making it Cool to Hate jQuery
/ 1,421When I started in development, beginning a new project often felt like drowning and then being asked to write some functioning JavaScript. At the time, all I needed to do was perform some DOM stuff — make an element disappear on a click, add some classes, or animate a dropdown.
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Build Your Own Simple Lazy Loading Functionality in WordPress
/ 15,142When you’re looking to incorporate any given feature into your WordPress application, there’s rarely a shortage of third-party plugins out there to make it happen. But sometimes, whether you’re trying to avoid the inevitable complexity an unfamiliar third-party plugin introduces, or for some other reason, you might feel called to
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Building a Lambda Function with Netlify
/ 12,557A while back, I wrote my first Lambda function with Firebase. Like every Lambda function tutorial on the web shows you how to do, mine processes a payment via Stripe when someone purchases a license for TypeIt, the most versatile JavaScript animated typing utility on the planet. The process was
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Removing Usernames from Password Reset Emails
/ 847Securely handling personal information on the web is a pretty big deal, and one of the ways you do that is making sure none of it’s sent via query string in a URL. Things like this are bad: https: //your-site.com?email=booger%40email.comIn fact, Google has some clear policies explicitly prohibiting certain information from being
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Selecting Elements with No Class
If you’ve been a developer for more than 7 minutes, you’ve probably felt uncomfortably pressured into doing something weird with your code, like specifically styling plain, classless, attribute-less elements. Don’t ask for the details, just accept the reality of this happening sometimes.When I meet scenarios like this, by default, I
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