formBuilder v1.9.0

Screenshot from 2016-03-14 22-11-22Version 1.9.0 of formBuilder introduces a number of visual and performance improvements.

Performance

Older versions relied on a textarea and it’s value was previously used as a buffer with formBuilder constantly reading and writing to it. No more. formBuilder now has its own buffer and can exist without the textarea.

Saving and preview generation has been optimized to run less frequently. Previously every keystroke caused a save and preview updated… yikes Continue reading

Icon font management with Gulp and Fontello

With all the buzz around GitHub’s switch to inline svg I thought I better publish my current icon font editing workflow while it’s still semi-relevant. No doubt I’ll be adopting full inline svg myself but someone somewhere may find it useful to stick with icon fonts for a while.
In this tutorial we’ll be working with ECMAScript2016 (ES6) so our Gulpfile will actually be gulpfile.babel.js. To begin we’ll add some config to our package.json. Continue reading

WordPress Push and Pull

I seem to be doing a lot of Dev Op stuff lately and recently needed to quickly deploy a local site I was developing. I thought there would be a simple way of doing this with VVV or some other third-party script but unfortunately I did not find a solution that suited my needs, so I made one. Eventually I will either move to Capistrano or expand on these scripts to accommodate different environments and use cases but for now this is working for me. Continue reading