When developing a plug-in (and to a lesser extent, themes) you will often find that you want to allow a user to perform various actions: delete, edit or update posts, categories, options or even other users. More often than not you only want certain authorised users to perform these actions. For this, WordPress uses two concepts: roles and capabilities. via …
Proper security is critical to keeping your site or that of your theme or plug-in users safe. Part of that means appropriate data validation and sanitization. In this article we are going to look at why this is important, what needs to be done, and what functions WordPress provides to help. via Data Sanitization and Validation With WordPress – Tuts+ …
At the start of a product idea the designer uses wireframes, mockups and prototypes to get feedback as fast as possible. Balancing the amount of time spent creating these temporary assets and reducing misinterpretation is key. Tools like Illustrator give the designer the flexibility to experiment and draw without being forced to think about technical constraints early in the process. …
Check out this week selection of gifts for creatives hand picked from our sister site Geefts. Let me know in the comments if you’d like us to add any other books to the roundup and will update it. via Gifts for creatives: 10 must have books • Inspired Magazine.
Every project is made up of countless little changes. With a little luck, they will finally form a website, an app, or some other product. Your version control system keeps track of these changes. But only once you understand how to read them will you be able to track your project’s progress. Using the example of Git, the popular version …
Ever wondered how Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf got started? Which tools usability guru Gerry Gaffney uses? We interviewed 10 amazing UX designers to ask them these questions and more; the result is a fascinating glimpse into the diversity of the role of a UX Designer. via Everyday UX ebook | UX Mastery.
There have been many victims in the War on Drugs, from families being torn apart to victimless criminals rotting in a cage for possessing marijuana. But one victim of the war on drugs that is seldom mentioned is alternative medicine. There has been plenty of research lately showing the near miracle medicinal properties of cannabis, from curing cancer to treating diabetes, but …
In Buddhism one of the ‘Three Characteristics’ is No-Self (the other two are impermanence and suffering which are closely associated with this). This refers to the illusion of reality having a permanent and separate self. via One Buddha Teaching That Will Tell You More About Yourself Than Anything Else |.
Fetching something over the network is both slow and expensive: large responses require many roundtrips between the client and server, which delays when they are available and can be processed by the browser, and also incurs data costs for the visitor. As a result, the ability to cache and reuse previously fetched resources is a critical aspect of optimizing for …
Images often account for most of the downloaded bytes on a web page and also often occupy a significant amount of visual space. As a result, optimizing images can often yield some of the largest byte savings and performance improvements for your website: the fewer bytes the browser has to download, the less competition there is for the client’s bandwidth …