WordPress shortcodes allow developers to let authors customize certain aspects of their posts in a controlled way. Since the TinyMCE editor does tend to yield inconsistent results for raw HTML (even when entered in the Text tab), shortcodes are a great way to be sure that code will output as intended when used in the… Read more »
As web developers, we constantly prepare our websites to work if a user has JavaScript disabled. Other practices of graceful degradation are measurable through metrics within Google Analytics, but how can we tell if our users are disabling JavaScript? Additionally, you are missing pageviews on your site by not counting visitors without JavaScript! One lesser-known fact is… Read more »
Since the primary implementation of Google Analytics is using JavaScript, how would you log events when users have JavaScript errors? This is an important question because if you see this event in your analytics action must be taken ASAP! If you're not tracking errors, you are missing an important aspect of avoiding user frustration! Setting this up… Read more »
Nebula is a springboard WordPress theme framework for developers. It has tons of custom functionality built-in (like shortcodes, styles, and JS/PHP functions), but unlike other themes the WP Nebula is not meant for the end-user. Wordpress developers will find all source code not obfuscated, so everything may be customized and altered to fit the needs of… Read more »
There was a great post on Technical Marketing about tracking social media events and logged-in users in Google Analytics using the new Universal Analytics. I would like to elaborate on the instructions to make it even easier to set up and get tracking. The following examples use a combination of JavaScript and jQuery. It is… Read more »
Some large companies who use Internet Explorer will have their IT department force a compatibility mode on their users to maintain consistency across the board. Usually, there is some kind of application that requires IE8 or something along those lines. In that example, the company may have computer running Windows 7 where employees could be… Read more »
Mobile apps have created a precedent of using the device's back button to close off-canvas menus. This snippet will enhance mmenu by allowing users to close the menu with the browser's back button using the History API. When the menu is opened, the current page is pushed into the user's history. Then when the user… Read more »
Here is a JavaScript snippet that you can either copy and paste into your main JS file, or just put it in <script> tags on the page you want to test. It uses the Navigation Timing API to get the timestamp of each process, then converts the times to seconds by subtracting appropriate ones from… Read more »
Add this function to your functions.php to enable an easy way of triggering Google Maps through the Wordpress WYSIWYG content editor. All you need is an API Key which can easily be obtained here. Just paste it in the snippet below and you're off and running! Read more »
Ever need to use Gumby's rows and columns inside the Wordpress WYSIWYG content editor? I've written a collection of shortcodes that will allow you to do this without needing to use the HTML editor and risk losing the work you've done! The provided code should be added to your functions.php file, and the requires that… Read more »
Chris Blakley is the digital design and development strategist at Pinckney Hugo Group in New York.
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