Studio by WordPress.com is available for Windows and Mac and claims to be a fast, free way to develop WordPress sites, themes and plugins locally.
How does Studio by WordPress.com on Windows compare with two other local development server options XAMPP and Laragon?
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Now, this is going to be a niche blog post.
For the last ten years, I’ve been blogging metal, punk, hardcore and rock music reviews at 195metalcds.com.
Besides the main list of reviews, I also created three pages to list the reviews by artist, genre and score. I updated these manually because when I started the blog I hosted it at wordpress.com which had limitations about which themes and plugins I could use. But ever since moving the site to my own paid-hosting account at SiteGround, I’ve wanted to write a plugin or child theme function that could update these three pages automatically. Well, now I have and that’s what this blog post explains.
You can view the code on GitHub.
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DevToys is like a Swiss Army knife for software and web developers to help with everyday development tasks such as comparing and converting text and images, testing RegEx, formatting JSON and XML data, compressing images, etc.
It is available for free for Windows from the Microsoft Store.
I wish I’d had this years ago.
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Last year I tested out the new Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10 and liked what I saw.
One of my favourite additions since then is a system-wide colour picker utility that enables you to pick colours from any currently running application (including Windows itself) and automatically copies it in a configurable format to your clipboard.
With PowerToys running and Color Picker (sic) enabled, press Win + Shift + C.
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Sometimes it’s the simplest ideas, right?
Those that know me from a web development perspective know how much I love CSS. Here’s another simple tool to add to my design toolbox.
Sorted CSS Colors [sic] by Mustafa Enes Ertarhanacı is an elegant tool to sort the named CSS colours in a way that shows related colours together. And that’s it.
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