Changing WordPress Theme to Newspaper Lite
I’m changing my WordPress blog theme today to Newspaper Lite. Read about my decision-making process and what other theme options were considered.
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Project: Exporting your Google Plus page followers to CSV with JavaScript ES6
This is a side project I did based on a a question I was asked to answer on Quora. In this project, we look at possible ways to export, extract, or grab information about users from our Google+ followers page. We ultimately use JavaScript in a browser console to scape user information using ECMAScript 6
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JavaScript Tutorial: Mapping ES6 arrays with HTML5 Local Storage
This is an HTML5/JavaScript tutorial and is intended to teach users what HTML5 local storage is, why it is useful, and how to use it. Many developer and coder workflow tips are covered as well.
Demo code gist on GitHub: https://goo.gl/UGuDqq
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Developer Journal: Redesigning my MailChimp Blog Updater Email Campaign
Earlier this month I spent quite a bit of time researching, redesigining, and tweaking my MailChimp email autoresponder campaign. This campaign updates users automatically in their email whenever I post something on my blog. I wanted to learn how to design a better MailChimp campaign email. I went from something that looked like the Before
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Design Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios and Case Studies
Developer Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios & Case Studies (Collage by: Eric Hepperle Designs, 2018 | Credit: “Notebook Flat Icon Vector.svg” by Videoplasty.com; “pexels-photo-943096” by Danny Meneses)I’ve recently discovered the need for a decent web developer portfolio. Now, I’ve been aware of web developer portfolios for a while and I’ve seen some good ones. But,
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Developer Journal: Making ShopIsle Theme Search Page Display Excerpts Instead of Full Content [without plugin] – Pt. 01
This is part of a new series I’m starting called Developer Journal. Posts in this series discuss my challenges — various programming and design topics I’m trying to figure out. I take you on my journey of learning and discovery. You get to experience my process for problem-solving and troubleshooting technical issues. While these are
Contact Form 7 Broken on WordPress – GoDaddy, MS Exchange Email Spam Issues Likely Cause
Picture this. You just finished building a very basic WordPress website using any one of several popular contact form plugins including WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Pirate Forms, or the old stalwart (and arguably the easiest contact form plugin to set up and configure), Contact Form 7. Maybe you’ve designed a detailed custom contact form
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Google Docs spreadsheet script: compare dates, highlight past dates, highlight weekends, and highlight today
ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS
How Many Spaces Should I Put After A Period In A Sentence?
I don’t remember who it was for certain, but some person of authority in my life, during my adolescence told me that 2-spaces was the correct spacing to put at the end of a sentence, right after the period. I felt that was wrong, but they must be right because they had credibility in the
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Fancy HTML Paragraph Styling with jQuery
I wrote this jQuery fiddle in about 5 minutes. It is really simple, but amazingly powerful at the same time. The purpose of this is to instantly style paragraph tags. Here are the style parameters: Background color: Manila (light beige-ish/yellow) Border color: Orange Drop-shadow: Yes Rounded-rectangle: Yes I want to make the code easily available
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