So, a few weeks ago this handy book showed up on my doorstep: WordPress Plugin Development (Beginner’s Guide), by Vladimir Prelovac (author of the WP Wall, Theme Test Drive, and Smart YouTube WordPress plugins, among many others). Vladimir being a highly active WordPress plugin developer, it’s unsurprising that the basic premise behind the book is to learn by doing. Essentially, the book takes you on a step-by-step walkthrough of several of Vladimir’s WordPress plugins, constructing each aspect of the plugins […]
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Accessibility Review at Practical eCommerce
Launching today, I’m beginning a new series at Practical eCommerce. This is a series of practical accessibility reviews — web sites can submit themselves to be reviewed, and I’ll take some time to review the site and write up my comments in an article format. The goal of this article isn’t to tear down the hard work web site owners have done, so I’m not as harsh as I might be in another context — it’s also not a paid […]
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A couple years ago, I wrote an article addressing the differences between working in a search engine friendly manner and working on search engine optimization. That article talked extensively about what is included in optimization which is not necessarily a part of being search engine friendly. Shari Thurow, a well-respected researcher in the search engine optimization and usability realm, suggested that separating the two concepts is, in fact, ridiculous. Well, that may be. However, I think that it’s crucial to […]
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A little while ago, while working on a site built by another developer, I came across this rather interesting example of how to use custom fields badly in a WordPress theme (abbreviated for, well, brevity): (The original also did this for meta keywords and meta descriptions — but the demonstration of this “logic” only requires one field.) Handwritten title | | | | | And so on. For approximately 40 separate pages. It made my brain hurt. For reference, the […]
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Somehow, I’m never fully satisfied when I’m posting notification about a new column elsewhere and see that my last post was also a notification about a column elsewhere. It becomes clearly evident to me that my posting frequently here at Accessible Web Design has gone down a bit. Granted, I was on vacation for a big chunk of the last four weeks, so we’ll call that an excuse. The new column is Accessibility and the Checkout Process, summarizing a few […]
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