Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Category: Web Development
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Five-Figure WordPress Resources
Of all the talks I’ve given, the “The Five-Figure WordPress Website” is my favorite. It’s a thorough look at the process I use to make WordPress websites in my freelance practice, and I’m really happy to share the process it’s taken me many years to fine tune. With that in mind, here are a bunch…
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Squarespace vs. WordPress vs. Whatever: My Final Answer
If I had a nickel for every time I heard this question: “I want to make a website, but I know nothing about websites. Should I use Squarespace or WordPress? Something else?” In reality I’d have less than a dollar, but I hear it enough that it’s time to write a serious post answering the…
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How to render a code block of Haml in Haml
I’m currently working on a style guide for a Rails app (fun!). The documentation is built as a baby Rails app of it’s own, thus in Haml, an HTML pre-processor (think Sass, but for HTML). Like any style guide worth it’s salt, I wanted to have a block of the markup for each element alongside…
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The Twig for Timber Cheatsheet
Although Timber ultimately simplifies templating in WordPress, there’s a bit of a barrier to entry. If you haven’t worked in a templating language before, it takes some time to get a handle on what’s possible. The following are some introductory Twig concepts and snippets I’ve found particularly useful when working with Timber and Advanced Custom…
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@include upperspace;I’ve made a few websites over the past year or so, and I finally feel like I’ve nailed down the process. Of course there’s a lot more to it, but potentially the most useful, simple, and adorably named part has been a typography mixin I call upperspace: @mixin upperspace { letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; }…
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Iterate over Keys and Values in Twig with Timber
I found the Twig documentation for using key value pairs from PHP arrays a little sparse, so thought I’d elaborate.
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Walking and Talking: A technique for writing blog posts
The words were all there when you talked about the topic in conversation yesterday, but when it comes to actually writing the post…impossible. But wait, that’s just it! Record yourself talking about it. I spend roughly 23% of my life walking (that’s an exaggeration, but I do walk a lot). Why not write a blog…
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Exclude .sass-cache files from Sublime Search [Snippet]
How to hide .sass-cache from your Sublime so that it doesn’t show up in search.
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How I do Inbox 0 in Gmail
I kind of roll my eyes at productivity posts, and yes, this is another productivity post. But, I’m really good at Inbox 0 and have been complimented a few times on my Gmail set up, so…ti
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Enable FTP Server on Mac
Type this into the command line: sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist thanks to iGerry
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WP dev tools I’m stoked about
I’m constantly reading about workflows and new tools, and don’t really get a chance to use them until something fresh comes around (or if I make an extra 5 hrs to try them out). Anyhow, I’ve got some WordPress in the works and wanted to share these excellent finds. WP-CLI: A command line interface for…
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Color Pickers of Choice
We’ve all got our faves, here are mine! Adobe Kuler Kuler is awesome. You can create your own color schemes from a color or an uploaded image, but the best part is the massive amount of color combos created by Kuler users. You can use Kuler directly through Illustrator too, so no need to deal…
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Show a title when hovering over an image with jQuery or CSS
\It’s not too hard! I was writing up a demo and figured I might as well share it with the world. You can do it in CSS or jQuery, definitely useful for galleries.
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Responsive Video Embeds
This post walks through how to apply a class to resize responsive videos, but you can also just use something like Fitvids.