web dev

There may be many times when designing a website where the client wants some custom functionality. How do you approach this with WordPress? Plugins. Plugins allow you to extend WordPress beyond the core software. The heavy customization that WordPress allows is one of the reasons why WordPress is so popular. In this guide, I will walk you through how to build a very simple plugin. Setting Up Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL We’re going to assume that you have a WordPress environment setup for development....

In this tutorial we will show you how to create feature boxes with HTML and CSS. Feature boxes are common on many websites and help summarize services or products a business offers, etc. The final result will look like the following: Before jumping into the code, it will be useful for you to download the images folder containing the icons shown above for our feature boxes. You can download the ZIP file with the images folder and associated icons here....

In this tutorial we will be creating a simple, modern navigation bar. It’s nothing fancy, it just works, and it looks modern. I’m deriving the basis of this tutorial from my full screen landing page tutorial. It’s not required, but feel free to clone the repository for that tutorial and that can be the basis for our purposes here. It would be helpful to know HTML and CSS, but it’s not necessarily required, though highly recommended....