Picking the right Night mode colors for your UI

Ernest Marcinko Design, Tutorials Leave a Comment

The market is filled with multimedia/mobile devices. We are constantly using our mobiles/tablets/pc’s not caring about our vision. Our eyes however need to rest, but on these devices we experience mostly low contrast, hight brightness with bad colouring and poor typography, which hurts our vision. About a year ago a software called f.lux started to trend amongst designers, which is …

Maximum performance with WordPress

Ernest Marcinko Tutorials, Wordpress 1 Comment

There is nothing better, than seeing the speed of the fresh “virgin” WordPress installation. After installing few plugins, making posts or loading up the webshop, this speed exponentially decreases. In the end, you get a nice looking website with crappy loading speed. Ruining the user experience with slow speed is easier than you think. More speed = Less abandonment There …

Rocket Loader for Wordpress

Controlling Cloudflare Rocket Loader for WordPress

Ernest Marcinko Tutorials, Wordpress 18 Comments

What is Rocket Loader? Automatically optimizes your pages to minimize the number of network connections and ensure even third party resources won’t slow down page rendering.Cloudflare Rocket loader from Cloudflare is definitely worth some time for every WordPress site owner. Proper configuration is however a little bit tricky, as there is only a limited access to the WordPress header. How …

Item Transition Inspiration with jQuery

Ernest Marcinko jQuery, Tutorials 17 Comments

Have you seen Mary Lous latest work on codrops, the Inspiration for item transitions? If not, you should check it out first, she does an amazing work as always. Some of you however might find it a bit hard to integrate into your projects, as there is a huge base of developers using jQuery mostly. I have transformed her work …

Stay connected box for WordPress without a plugin

Ernest Marcinko Tutorials, Wordpress 1 Comment

I’ve done a lot of research to look for a plugin, that can add a “stay connected with us” box below my posts. Unfortunately there is none. The main reason for this, is because there is no proper hook in wordpress to add a content block after the sinlge post. Fortunately, the workaround isn’t too hard. It’s attractive, visitors will …

WordPress ping list for 2014

Ernest Marcinko Tutorials, Wordpress 8 Comments

Update Services are tools you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post.

WordPress – Widget select box

Ernest Marcinko Tutorials, Wordpress 7 Comments

This tutorial will cover how to add a select box to the widget backend options panel. Sometimes a simple text input field is not enough. By understanding this article you will gain a better view of widget backend options.