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April 18, 2022

A Complicated Navigation Issue Solved with JS and CSS

The Premise: In 2020, we needed a sub-navigation system on jtcc.edu that matched up to the HTML that an outside company had built for us and it turned out to be a bit more complex than you might expect. We needed it to automatically show the direct children of any page a visitor visits. However, […]

Tags: coding, css, jquery, js, web development

January 6, 2022

How to break CSS cache in WordPress

By default, the wp_enqueue_style() function will put whatever version of WordPress that you currently have installed behind your CSS call like this: <link rel=’stylesheet’ href=’https://jeradsdesign.com/wp-main/wp-content/themes/jeradsdesign-wp/css/main.css?ver=5.8.2′ type=’text/css’ media=’all’ /> Grab the theme version from your style.css file: $theme = wp_get_theme();define(‘THEME_VERSION’, $theme->Version); Pass it as the 3rd parameter in your wp_enqueue_style() function in your functions.php: wp_enqueue_style(‘main’, get_template_directory_uri() […]

January 5, 2022

Why is googling an important skill for developers?

Someone on Twitter recently asked this, or more accurately… they asked, “what makes googling code different from googling anything else?” I responded: I’d say it comes down to specificity. “best apple pie recipe” has a high chance that great recipes display in the 1st results page & relate directly to what I’m looking for. However […]

July 23, 2021

Review: The Creative JavaScript Course by DevelopedByEd

I have been following DevEd on YouTube for a few years now and decided to purchase his The Creative JavasScript Course. I hope to teach JavaScript(JS) to college students soon and needed to brush up on my vanilla JS skills. Ed is a fantastic teacher. I get bored easily when watching hours of coding videos […]

May 17, 2015

Good Advice: Pick One!

Someone recently asked me, “My son wants to learn programming or web development, where should he start? What’s the best language to start with?” Choosing just one thing can feel like one of the hardest decisions when you are starting out and even after you’ve been working in the field for a while and want […]