Skrollr is a stand-alone parallax scrolling library for mobile (Android + iOS) and desktop. No jQuery. Just plain JavaScript (and some love). https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr The official skrollr demo. A great tutorial, and its demo.
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Disable specified WordPress plugins when doing local development
Look up Mark Jaquith for more info.
Articles for implementing GIT
A great video overview from Chris Coyier at CSS Tricks. Adding Git to your WordPress development workflow – an introduction.
How to clear/flush the DNS cache in Google Chrome?
Navigate to chrome://net-internals/#dns and press the “Clear host cache” button.
Vertically align text in a div
This is loosely taken from this page: Here is the html structure: Here’s the css: Must have a height, be set to be a table and have the vertical-align set.
Use Woocommerce’s Fancybox on extra pages
Taken form Foxrun Software WooCommerce comes with Fancybox, a Lightbox implementation, bundled as part of the core. It’s used on the product pages to display the image gallery pictures, and a common question is “How do I use WooCommerce’s fancybox to do X”. This article will walk you through how to do just that. Enable Lightbox The Full Article…
Force the use of a specific WordPress theme
Just paste the following code in the functions.php file. When this code will be executed, the “default” theme will replace your current theme. Inspired by Nathan Rice’s code to Serve IE6 Visitors the Default WordPress Theme, make sure to check it out too!
Best Practices for Keeping WordPress Clean & Secure
Updating your Database Prefix Each installation of WordPress will include a small prefix for the database tables. So whenever you generate a new database for your website the tables will be created as wp_tablename. But if somebody can gain access to your database or even into a shell command in your server, it would be all Full Article…