In the course of my daily rounds I was interested to see how svelte I could make the core web vitals on my own site. What are core web vitals? These are three tests for a webpage: how quickly page content loads, how quickly a browser loading a webpage can respond to a user’s input, […]
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I think I’m getting comfortable enough with where the browsers are to ignore the Explorers and the old Safaris a bit more. I’m just hearing it less – “needs to work on Explorer” is something I haven’t heard in a year, and when I did, that was for a modern enough version, so I’m gradually […]
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I needed to calculate the height of a video tag based on how many were on screen, inside a wp_query loop. Here’s what I did: Then inside the loop, where there might be a video to be displayed, I added a class with the countage variable stuck to the end of it the class ‘hasvideo_<?php […]
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Ever wanted to just quickly squish SCSS into your small project? It’s node so there is a bit of faffing and cramming modules everywhere, but here’s a quick, small setup Initiate a Node project & install Gulp and Gulp CLI. Install the gulp-sass plugin and the del module Project structure will be: index.html (link to […]
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This is a handy way to target any element with a common string in the id. an element with id=”yourstring-whatever” would be targeted this way. It does seem a little intensive on the DOM so maybe whittle down the elements to target it inside a container, thereby letting the browser know that it doesn’t have […]
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