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5 Useful CSS Tricks for Responsive Design

Making the design to be responsive is very easy as shown in my Responsive Design in 3 Steps tutorial, but maintaining the elements to look aesthetically balanced on all breakpoint layouts is an art. Today I’m going to share 5 of my commonly used CSS tricks along with sample cases for coding responsive designs. They Advertise here with BSA

WordPress Community Summit

The WordPress core team is pulling out all the stops this year and shooting for a big summit  to be attended by prominent contributors and community members. Instead of the traditional meet up, which is typically attended by only the core developers and their chosen guests, the core team is now looking for your nominations to decide who will attend the first ever WordPress Community Summit.

Diary of WordCamp Netherlands 2012

Siobhan McKeown with an excellent writeup of WordCamp Netherlands 2012 on Smashing Magazine. Killer photos, interviews, and a day by day breakdown. Love it

Have any questions for the BuddyPress Core team?

This week’s WPCandy Roundtable will be filled with BuddyPress Core developers: John James Jacoby , Boone Gorges , and Paul Gibbs will be sitting down to chat. If you caught last week’s show with the marketplace theme developers , you’ll know a thing or two about what to expect tomorrow afternoon

WP App Store launches with 17 theme and plugin partners

WP App Store , the project aiming to make plugin and theme purchases easy within the WordPress dashboard — and  which we previewed a couple of months ago  — quietly launched yesterday (complete with  slick intro video ). Their plugin is downloadable on their website, which once installed will give you a new top-level menu item for browsing commercial themes and plugins recently added to their system. Seventeen theme and plugin partners are in place at launch, a few more than announced when the original teaser page went up

How Mark Jaquith built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”

Mark Jaquith wrote an awesome blog post describing how he went about building a website called Have Baby. Need Stuff! He used _s from Automattic, Bootstrap, Posts 2 Posts, and a handful of other goodies to pull the site together.

Aftertaste #18: After The Weekly Theme Show 8

This episode of Aftertaste immediately follows this week’s Weekly Theme Show and sees the crew casually discussing WordPress hosting choices, going back and forth with the chatroom, and choosing the episode title. MP3 file  (2.7 MB) Subscribe on iTunes Audio RSS Feed You just finished reading Aftertaste #18: After The Weekly Theme Show 8 on WPCandy . Please consider leaving a comment!

The Weekly Theme Show #8: “Theme Woot”

On this week’s episode of The Weekly Theme Show, we discuss buying themes via a plugin like WP App Store, the results of the ThemeThrift project, and all sorts of options and dashboard notification fun stuff. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

Introducing the Monster Widget

An important part of the theme development process is testing. As a member of the Theme Team at Automattic I can say that we like to everything we can! One thing that we have observed is that widget testing can take up a lot of time. WordPress provides 13 widgets, many of which contain a form enabling us to customize each instance

Aftertaste #17: After WPCandy Podcast 32

This episode of Aftertaste took place directly after WPCandy Podcast #32 and, of course, consists of Brian and I discussing WordPress topics a wee bit  more than we did on the podcast proper. I’d also say we did a good bit of catching up, since we honestly haven’t’ chatted in a while