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Technical tutorials, guides and tactics

Bigger HTML Checkboxes with Font Awesome and CSS

How the heck do you make HTML checkboxes bigger???

Responsive Slideshow Example with jQuery Cycle2

This tutorial offers a responsive slideshow using the jQuery Cycle2 plugin and some custom CSS. Slideshows are great for “hero” sections and many other use cases in web design. As…

WordPress Front-end User Search Example

This tutorial will show you how to create a front-end user search for WordPress. Before we begin, please realize that there are several ways to do this. That’s the beauty…

Responsive Mobile Menu with CSS and jQuery

It’s time to get responsive, folks! Here’s the mobile menu you’ve been waiting for… Ok, that might have been a little aggressive… but in all seriousness this is a responsive…

Query WordPress Posts By Custom Field Values

This tutorial will show you how to query your WordPress posts by custom field values. Custom queries are very useful when you have a variety of post types with lots…

Mixpanel Click Event Tracking Example

Mixpanel is a great tool for tracking user behavior on your website or app. Today we’ll learn how to capture custom click events! I use Mixpanel to capture custom click…

How To Create Previous and Next Posts with Advanced Custom Fields

This tutorial provides an elegant way to display previous and next posts using Advanced Custom Fields and it’s Relationship/Post Object fields. I use Advanced Custom Fields in most of my…

How To Make Editable WordPress Page Templates

Now that we understand how to create custom WordPress page templates, it’s time to make them editable. To do this we’ll be using a WordPress plugin called Advanced Custom Fields…

How To Create Custom WordPress Page Templates

In this tutorial we’ll create a custom WordPress page template for our WordPress site. Custom page templates can be used for unique page layouts, landing pages, or any other kind…

What is a WordPress Page Template

For starters, WordPress page templates are used to control the layout of a page [or multiple pages] of your WordPress site. WordPress page templates contain HTML markup and PHP code….