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@jareware
jareware / SCSS.md
Last active August 11, 2025 13:22
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

@gregrickaby
gregrickaby / html5-schema.org-markup.html
Last active August 2, 2022 00:05
Proper SCHEMA.ORG markup
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<meta name="robots" content="noodp, noydir" />
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com">
<link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.com/" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mysite.com/style.css" type="text/css" />
@tybruffy
tybruffy / get_meta_values.php
Created August 16, 2013 20:52
Get all distinct values of a meta field in Wordpress
function _get_all_meta_values($key) {
global $wpdb;
$result = $wpdb->get_col(
$wpdb->prepare( "
SELECT DISTINCT pm.meta_value FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} pm
LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->posts} p ON p.ID = pm.post_id
WHERE pm.meta_key = '%s'
AND p.post_status = 'publish'
ORDER BY pm.meta_value",
$key
@hlashbrooke
hlashbrooke / function.php
Last active July 4, 2022 21:35
WordPress: Display posts in a random order, but retain persistent pagination
<?php
session_start();
add_filter( 'posts_orderby', 'randomise_with_pagination' );
function randomise_with_pagination( $orderby ) {
if( is_front_page() ) {
// Reset seed on load of initial archive page
@hissy
hissy / nav-menu-exporter-importer.php
Last active October 9, 2024 00:33
[WordPress Plugin] Nav Menu Exporter and Importer / Export and Import nav menus. Requires WordPress Importer plugin.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Nav Menu Exporter and Importer
Description: Export and Import nav menus. Requires WordPress Importer plugin
Author: hissy, megumi themes
Version: 0.1
Text Domain: nav-menu-exporter-importer
License: GPL version 2 or later - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*/
@gregrickaby
gregrickaby / grd_functions.php
Last active April 10, 2018 02:38
A "must use" plugin to help save theme-agnostic functions
<?php
/**
* Must-Use Functions
*
* A class filled with functions that will never go away upon theme deactivation.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage GRD
*/
class GRD_Functions {
<?php
/**
* A class filled with functions that will never go away upon theme deactivation
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage GRD
* @version 0.1.0
*/
class GRD_Functions {
@spivurno
spivurno / gp-limit-choices-spots-left.php
Last active July 18, 2020 00:27
Gravity Perks // GP Limit Choices // Display Spots Left in Choice Labels
<?php
/**
* Display how many spots are left in the choice label when using the GP Limit Choices perk
* http://gravitywiz.com/gravity-perks/
*/
add_filter( 'gplc_remove_choices', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'gplc_pre_render_choice', 'my_add_how_many_left_message', 10, 5 );
@spivurno
spivurno / gp-limit-choices-shared-limits.php
Last active March 11, 2021 22:03
Gravity Perks // GP Limit Choices // Share Limits Across Multiple Fields
<?php
/**
* Gravity Perks // GP Limit Choices // Share Limits Across Multiple Fields (and Forms)
*
* NOTE: This snippet only works with Gravity Forms 2.3 or greater.
*
* Adds support for specifying groups of fields which share the same limit. For example, if you had two fields with a
* limit of 10, selections from both fields would contribute to that limit.
*
* @version 2.1
@hieblmedia
hieblmedia / .gitignore
Last active August 7, 2025 08:34
Gitignore - Exclude all except specific subdirectory
#
# If all files excluded and you will include only specific sub-directories
# the parent path must matched before.
#
/**
!/.gitignore
###############################
# Un-ignore the affected subdirectory