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Themetry: Mathematical Precision to Details

I created WordPress Theme Shops list and I’m happy to start interviews with Themetry. As a math teacher I really like their slogan. And that’s not only slogan. It’s the fact: Making WordPress themes with mathematical precision to detail I’ve been following man behind Themetry (Leland Fiegel) for a while and we are totally on …

WordPress Theme Shops that I Trust

I dislike lists from the bottom of my heart. I have “never” even made a shopping list. And here I am listing WordPress Theme Shops. You might wonder why? Well, from time to time people don’t like my themes (go figure why) and they ask where else they could find good and solid themes. That’s …

People of WordCamp Europe 2016

WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna is over. I feel tired and sad. But in the most positive way you can imagine. It has been so much fun to meet new people, and hang out with our WordPress Finland community members. In this post I’m not going summarize amazing talks we all witnessed. Talks will be …

Testing Foundation Accordion

I’m not the biggest fun of large front-end frameworks for couple of reasons. There are lot’s of extra code I don’t need. I don’t understand what’s going on. I feel like I lose control. But there are times when frameworks like Foundation can be really helpful. They do have lot’s of great front-end components and …

Detecting Javascript in WordPress

Does you full screen menu or other fancy Javascript based solution work without Javascript? They can work if you’re detecting Javascript beforehand.

Accessibility in WordPress Turku Meetup

I was happy to visit in WordPress Turku Meetup and talk about accessibility. Topic was how to create better and more accessible themes. This was my third talk in this month and sixth talk in my first year as a freelancer. #WPTurku @samikeijonen showing the right path to #a11y… I have to redo everything… #wpfi pic.twitter.com/wEKumpn2Ts — …

Switch Away from Icon Fonts to SVG

This has been busy month for WordPress talks. First freelance talk in WordPress Helsinki meetup, today SVG talk in WordPress Cafe hosted by Exove, and finally talk about accessibility in Turku WordPress meetup. Today topic was switching away from icon fonts to SVG. You can check the slides from here. We talk about these subjects: …

SVG Social Menu in WordPress

Justin Tadlock have invented social nav menu system. Pretty much everybody is using it on public themes because users can create social links using WordPress menu system. And social links can be drag ‘n dropped in any order you want. It is great! Here is a screenshot how it might look like. But lately (several months) …

Simple and Accessible SVG Menu Hamburger Animation

We could argue should we ever use so called hamburger icon as a menu toggle button. But that’s not the point of this article. Instead, I’d like to share how to create simple and accessible SVG menu hamburger with animation. By animation I mean that when you toggle to menu, hamburger icon smoothly turns into …