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Recursion in Handlebars with Depth Level

Logic-less templates in Handlebars.js are fantastic when you are making templates for JavaScript components, or doing code generation using JavaScript. Handlebars is easy to use, and its features are necessarily limited. One feature that is really missing is recursion.

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Creating a WordPress theme from scratch: Content and the WordPress Template Hierarchy

In this second part of our guide to creating your own WordPress theme from scratch, we'll look at content types and how you can display them in your theme. We'll look at the WordPress Template Hierarchy and the WordPress Loop.

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Creating a WordPress theme from scratch: Theme files, styles, header and footer

Ready to build your own WordPress theme from scratch, with all the bells and whistles? This guide helps you get started from the very beginning with step-by-step instructions and helpful tips.

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Setting up a WordPress development environment on Windows with IIS

In order to develop a WordPress site on your own development machine, you'll need to setup a local web server and run WordPress on that. Why not use the Internet Information Services server, which comes with your Windows installation.

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Moving a WordPress site: custom post type attachments not found

I recently developed a WordPress website with various custom post types. Some of these CPTs had a metadata field called , and it would store the URL and filesize of a PDF file attached to the post. All was well until I uploaded the website do a new server, with a different domain name.

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7 FontAwesome tricks you probably didn’t know about

We're sure you're using the fantasic FontAwesome CSS library in all your web apps. Great icons and easy to use! But are you using all the tricks that make FontAwesome even easier to use? Check out these 7 FontAwesome tricks that you may not have spotted in the documentation.

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Cannot import Avada options: wp-admin/options.php not found (404)

So you're trying to copy the website you just developed using the Avada theme to a webserver. Upload done, all you need to do is export the local Avada theme options to a JSON string, and import them again on the server. And then it fails: You land on a 404 page that says that could not be found.

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7 FontAwesome tricks you probably didn’t know about

We're sure you're using the fantasic FontAwesome CSS library in all your web apps. Great icons and easy to use! But are you using all the tricks that make FontAwesome even easier to use? Check out these 7 FontAwesome tricks that you may not have spotted in the documentation.

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Slim PHP Microframework: Trouble setting HTTP headers

I had been using the Slim PHP Microframework with great success building an AngularJS single page web application with a REST backend. Everything was fast, only minimal amounts of data was exchanged between client and server -- and then I ran into trouble.

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead – Surviving the early game

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (C:DDA) is a tough game. Thrown into a post-apocalyptic world with nothing but the clothes on your back and no survival skills to speak of, you must find food, water, and shelter, all the while battling zombies and mutated wild animals.

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Portable, Animated Text Background Fill Using CSS and SVG

The webkit-specific CSS properties webkit-background-clip and webkit-text-fill-color can be used to add a fill pattern to a text string and animate it, degrading gracefully for any non-webkit browser.

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Pure CSS 3D Animated Contour Terrain

This experiment shows how simple CSS transformations and transparent images can be leveraged to show and rotate a contour terrain generated from a height map in the browser with good performance.

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Firefox 3D CSS Limitations: maximum element count and close positioning

While exploring the possibilities of 3D CSS transformations, we ran into an interesting limitation (bug?) in Firefox. We were building an experiment that takes a heightmap and converts it into a 3D terrain.

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Deconstructing CSS 3: Making of the CSS 3 solar system animation

The animation of the solar system in pure CSS 3 by Julian Garnier is an amazing piece of work. In this article, we'll take an in-depth look at how it's done.

We’ll analyze the CSS piece by piece and show you what makes the solar system tick, and you’ll learn all about base64 image encoding in CSS, keyframe animations and CSS 3D transformations.

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Stretching the limits of CSS 3: Amazing creations in pure CSS

It's easy to underestimate the power of CSS. For those coming from a CSS 2 background, CSS was a way of styling elements of a page and nothing more. Now, with CSS 3, new properties supported by modern browsers open up new possibilities that you could only dream of before.

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Adblock Plus now serves ads anyway

In a complete contradiction of terms, the popular web advertisement blocking browser extension Adblock Plus will now starting serving advertisements of its own, which it considers whitelisted. The so-called Acceptable Ads Platform is Adblock Plus's very own ad network.

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A quick tutorial to hover.css

Hover.css is a great little CSS library that adds hover effects to your HTML links and buttons. In this tutorial, we'll bring you up to speed quickly on how to use hover.css.