-By no means edit the corefiles of wordpress, as a result of they are going to be overwritten by an update. The best way is to create a custom plugin, in order that modifications can be saved throughout updates. If there aren't any plugins accessible, the programmer can do his job and create one.
-By no means modify the Father or mother theme, but create always little one themes. Child themes are one thing like a modified dad or mum theme. Father or mother themes for WordPress are sometimes up to date and using youngster themes makes updating easier.
- Use one javascript library. Select one you want and stay follow it. jQuery can also be very good. Mixing just isn't good to do. You should utilize preexisting ones, but it is more something to be taught the job.
Here some quick tips for making you WordPress website more stable and clean:
-Delete unnecessary code in the CSS
-Remove PHP functions that are unused.
-Remove old scripts when they are not in use anymore.
-Remove plugins that are unused.
-Merge Javascript and CSS if possible.
-Remove the WP version code (is much saver for hackers also!)
-Delete files that are not used anymore.
-Try to give comments to the code.
-Do a cross browser check like IE, FF, Chrome, Sarafi and even Opera.
-Do a W3C validation check to be sure that the code is 100% right.
What we do is not only check different browsers, but different version too! IE8 is something totally different than IE9. It's important to do because when you check the browser usage, you see that InternetExplorer is far more popular. IE8 is most used at this moment, but it will soon be IE9. IE9 Offers far more CSS3 support like rounded corners and shadow. Now you don't have to create everything in Photoshop anymore and reduces the development time enormously. As a great webdesigner it is still important to have the Photoshop skills, beside of course HTML and CSS. It's not always necessary to have good program skill because there are designers and programmers. A lot of programmers do not have the eye for designing.
We wish you luck with upgrading your WordPress Webdesign Skills - Colodeo Webdesign Amersfoort
