Useful Tips To Get Started With WordPress Hooks

Even though hooks in WordPress are amazing and everyone uses them knowingly or unknowingly, I get the impression that some advanced users and especially front-end developers still seem to avoid them. If you feel like you’ve been holding back on hooks, too, then this article will get you started. I am also going to reveal some interesting details to anyone who thinks they are familiar enough with hooks.

You’ll want to read this article especially if you’d like to: understand code snippets with hooks such as those found in forums, extend WordPress, plugins and themes without breaking updates, learn how to avoid common problems, allow others to extend your code.

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WIRED picks apart the announcement that specs for next-gen video content have finally been decided.

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AMD’s next-generation Polaris GPU architecture unveiled

AMD has finally taken the wraps off its next-generation GPU architecture, codenamed Polaris. The new chip should offer a dramatic performance improvement over older GCN hardware and vastly improved performance-per-watt.

Designing The Most Desirable Product: Exploration of Banknotes Design

As digital technologies are implanted deeper in the world, making more and more aspects of life intangible, it’s hard to imagine the world without any kind of banknotes, or paper money. In the dramatic history of our world, money became not just generic objects of payment, but also symbols of societies.

Combining utility and exclusivity, money is one of the challenging objects to design. And as with any complex task, currency design holds some valuable lessons for us, web designers. This article is an attempt to formulate some of these lessons and, therefore, draw your attention to the inspirational nature of paper money.

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