Last Rose Studios Dev Blog
Development Blog for Last Rose Studios
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How to add a FontAwesome field in the WordPress Customizer
I won’t go in to the details of the WordPress customizer, you can read them over at https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Customization_API This is to showcase how to create a custom control - and in this case, one that lists icons available from FontAwesome. First step is to create the controls $wp_customize->add_setting( 'your_fontawesome_icon_title', array(...
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How to Build a Custom Gallery in the Hubspot COS
One thing that has been a pain in the butt for a while is the Hubspot image sliders. They give you two options - a carousel or a lightbox layout, each with a few options, but the end user experience is pretty bad. Long loading times prevent some of the...
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Working on the Hubspot COS
We’ve been working with hubspot ever since they launched their new COS, and have built a number of sites on the platform. To be honest, it hasn’t been all a great experience. Here are a few of the problems we’ve had Little to no documentation - though this has improved...
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Working with Laravel
Worked on a project that was initially built using Symfony. The original work was well done, however the intial developer couldn’t continue due to a conflict of interest, and so the project was outsourced overseas. I could get into details on how bad it was, but that is the topic...
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Google Chrome for windows font rendering solution
This probably isn’t relevent anymore One of the biggest pains about Chrome for windows is how it renders fonts. Internet Explorer has no issues (surprisingly) nor does Firefox, or Chrome for Mac. The problem is only on Chrome for windows. What’s the problem? Jagged fonts that look awful and are...