WordPress

A Table of Contents helps users navigate (long) blog posts. I use them on both posts and post. The desktop version always shows the table on the right side in the sidebar (using a text-widget with a shortcode). On mobile, I’ll only show it on long articles, using a shortcode under the first paragraph.

In WordPress you have two main taxonomies: categories and tags. I use categories as a taxonomy tree. That is why I want to show the submenu on the category page. It does not come out of the box, so I created something that renders the submenu items for me.

Recently, I worked on my theme for KeesTalksTech. To gain performance, I need to rely less on plugins, that’s why I needed a simple way to show small lists of posts in my sidebar.

I’ve created 2 short codes: one that shows recent posts, used in the new section and one that shows specific posts, used in the highlights section.

I recently switched to WPExplorer’s Bogger Template, because it is simple and focused on the articles. What’s not to love? But there is still a lot to do to whip this template into shape. To help you out, I’ve created this post.

I noticed that the Time To First Byte (TTFB) of my website was taking way too long. First I thought it should be resolved by caching, but I noticed that it couldn’t be the caching, because TTFB kept being pretty high. After some research I found the culprit: IPv6 with the MySQL driver.

This small code snippet creates edit buttons for your category and tag pages. Adding edit buttons to your theme will greatly improve the usability for the end user.

I love SASS. What’s not to love? Well… it can’t be served directly by the web server like CSS. It needs to be pre-compiled before it is served. Fortunately there is a PHP SASS compiler that can be used to make PHP compile and serve SASS. I’m using an IIS installation, so I’ll be explaining how it can be done on a Windows machine.