Ernie Hsiung ErnieAtLYD

This post outlines a way to use Sass, Compass, and Grunt to maintain stylesheets for a WordPress parent and child theme.

Sass is useful for many reasons, but for our purposes, the two most helpful features are partials and variables. We'll also take advantage of the importPath setting of Compass and Grunt.

Comments and improvements are always welcome.

Step 1: Create your parent stylesheet

Create a new Compass project in your theme and style away. When you're finished, your theme directory (called parent here) might look something like this:

Table of contents
General information
1. Terms
2. General structure of a test
3. WordPress-specific assertions and test functions
  - enqueues
  - creating posts
  - creating terms
  - attaching images

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Project Ideas

Ok. I'm going to list off some ideas for projects. You will have to determine if any particular idea is good enough to include in a portfolio. These aren't creative ideas. They likely already exist. Some are way too advanced while others are simplistic.

I will recommend to post any project you make to github and make a github project page for it. Explain in as much detail as possible how you made it, how it can be improved etc. Document it.

If you pick an advanced idea, setup a development roadmap and follow it. This will show some project management skills.

Another piece of advice for those who are design challenged. Use different front end frameworks and use different themes for those frameworks to provide appealing designs without looking like yet another bootstrap site.

	# This is a skeleton for testing models including examples of validations, callbacks,
	# scopes, instance & class methods, associations, and more.
	# Pick and choose what you want, as all models don't NEED to be tested at this depth.
	#
	# I'm always eager to hear new tips & suggestions as I'm still new to testing,
	# so if you have any, please share!
	#
	# @kyletcarlson
	#
	# This skeleton also assumes you're using the following gems:

	<?php
	/**
	* AJAX call for parsing HTML
	*
	*/

	public function parse_html() {

	// get content from textarea
	$text = $_POST['content'];

	from flask import Flask
	from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
	from flask.ext.wtf import Form
	from flask.ext.babel import gettext
	from wtforms import SelectField, TelField, TextField, FormField, Fieldlist, SubmitField
	from wtforms.validators import Optional, Required

	app = Flask(__name__)
	db = SQLAlchemy(app)

	# -- mode: ruby --
	# vi: set ft=ruby :

	VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

	Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do \|config\|
	config.vm.box = "precise64"

	# The url from where the 'config.vm.box' box will be fetched if it
	# doesn't already exist on the user's system.

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	<?
	/**
	* Debug helper function. This is a wrapper for var_dump() that adds
	* the <pre /> tags, cleans up newlines and indents, and runs
	* htmlentities() before output.
	*
	* @param mixed $var The variable to dump.
	* @param string $label OPTIONAL Label to prepend to output.
	* @param bool $echo OPTIONAL Echo output if true.
	* @return string

	// Customize path to ACF in own plugin
	add_filter('acf/settings/path', 'my_acf_settings_path');

	function my_acf_settings_path( $path ) {

	// update path
	$path = plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) . '/pluginname/lib/acf/';

	// return
	return $path;