Introduction I recently read Dave Rupert’s article "Sass vars, CSS vars, and semantic theme vars", in which the author makes that case that just because we have variables in CSS now doesn't mean SASS variables are dead. In the article, Rupert describes how he used both types of variables to Read More
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Side Notes and Margin Notes in Tufte CSS: a WordPress Shortcode
Simplified Authoring for Tufte CSS Our sister site Mercury Photo Bureau uses side notes and margin notes in the style of Edward Tufte. The notes are styled using a bespoke adaptation of Tufte CSS. Because the code to display the notes accessibly is quite complicated, we use a shortcode to simplify Read More
Replacing WordPress Cron with PHP Cron on OpenLiteSpeed Server
We recently moved our websites from a Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) server to individual OpenLiteSpeed servers. Hosting costs were one consideration, but it was mainly the performance boost that sold us on OpenLiteSpeed. One of the costs of moving is learning how to configure an unfamiliar server Read More