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Sanitising data in WordPress

Sanitising data in WordPress

Sanitization is the process of cleaning or filtering your input data. Whether the data is from a user or an API or web service, you use sanitizing when you don’t know what to expect or you don’t want to be strict with data validation. The easiest way to sanitize data is with built-in WordPress functions. The sanitize_*() series […]

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On Designing and Building Toggle Switches »

Yesterday I was working on creating the slides and accompanying demos for my upcoming Web Directions Code talk next week. One of the demos I’m creating is a basic proof of concept for a simple switch that is used to switch the theme of a UI from light to dark and vice versa. I liked, and was inspired, by the theme switch in the Medium app.

From Sara Soueidan.

A11Y Style Guide »

The A11Y style guide comes with pre-populated accessible components that include helpful links to related tools, articles, and WCAG guidelines to make your site more inclusive.

From A11y Style Guide.

Gutenberg Block Library »

It can be hard to find individual blocks, as many are part of larger collections that are hard to search within. To solve that problem we have created a block library that lists each block individually. Blocks in the library are easily searchable and tagged for convienience.

From Gutenberg Block Library.

Responsive, accessible tables »

This approach is different from others you may have seen in that it uses a valid <table> (and child elements) and acknowledges that screen readers no longer consider <table>s to be tables when you start messing with their display properties.

From Adrian Roselli.

Offline POSTs with Progressive Web Apps »

PWAs are web apps that look and feel like native apps — they’re installable, they load quickly, they can deliver push notifications, and they work offline. Caching POST requests is, at the time of this writing, an open issue in the Service Worker spec.

From Web Dev @ Microsoft (via Medium).

Relative Requirements »

Every project is different: where one project might require the utmost focus on performance, the next might have a considerable need for visually striking designs and interactions. This awkward matrix of skills against requirements can often lead to problems.

From CSS Wizardry.

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