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A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site a Little Easier

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A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site a Little Easier

It’s probably no surprise to you that CSS-Tricks is (proudly) hosted on Cloudways, DigitalOcean’s managed hosting arm. Given both CSS-Tricks and Cloudways are part of DigitalOcean, it was just a matter of time before we’d come together this way. And here we are!

We were previously hosted on Flywheel which was a fairly boutique WordPress hosting provider until WP Engine purchased it years back. And, to be very honest and up-front, Flywheel served us extremely well. There reached a point when it became pretty clear that CSS-Tricks was simply too big for Flywheel to scale along. That might’ve led us to try out WP Engine in the absence of Cloudways… but it’s probably good that never came to fruition considering recent events.

Anyway, moving hosts always means at least a smidge of contest-switching. Different server names with different configurations with different user accounts with different controls.

We’re a pretty low-maintenance operation around here, so being on a fully managed host is a benefit because I see very little of the day-to-day nuance that happens on our server. The Cloudways team took care of all the heavy lifting of migrating us and making sure we were set up with everything we needed, from SFTP accounts and database access to a staging environment and deployment points.

Our development flow used to go something like this:

Fire up Local (Flywheel’s local development app)

Futz around with local development

Push to main

Let a CI/CD pipeline publish the changes

I know, ridiculously simple. But it was also riddled with errors because we didn’t always want to publish changes on push. There was a real human margin of error in there, especially when handling WordPress updates. We could have (and should have) had some sort of staging environment rather than blindly trusting what was working locally. But again, we’re kinduva a ragtag team despite the big corporate backing.

The flow now looks like this:

Fire up Local (we still use it!)

Futz around with local development

Push to main

Publish to staging

Publish to production

This is something we could have set up in Flywheel but was trivial with Cloudways. I gave up some automation for quality assurance’s sake. Switching environments in Cloudways is a single click and I like a little manual friction to feel like I have some control in the process. That might not scale well for large teams on an enterprise project, but that’s not really what Cloudways is all about — that’s why we have DigitalOcean!

See that baseline-status-widget branch in the dropdown? That’s a little feature I’m playing with (and will post about later). I like that GitHub is integrated directly into the Cloudways UI so I can experiment with it in whatever environment I want, even before merging it with either the staging or master branches. It makes testing a whole lot easier and way less error-prone than triggering auto-deployments in every which way.

Here’s another nicety: I get a good snapshot of the differences between my environments through Cloudways monitoring. For example, I was attempting to update our copy of the Gravity Forms plugin just this morning. It worked locally but triggered a fatal in staging. I went in and tried to sniff out what was up with the staging environment, so I headed to the Vulnerability Scanner and saw that staging was running an older version of WordPress compared to what was running locally and in production. (We don’t version control WordPress core, so that was an easy miss.)

I hypothesized that the newer version of Gravity Forms had a conflict with the older version of WordPress, and this made it ridiculously easy to test my assertion. Turns out that was correct and I was confident that pushing to production was safe and sound — which it was.

That little incident inspired me to share a little about what I’ve liked about Cloudways so far. You’ll notice that we don’t push our products too hard around here. Anytime you experience something delightful — whatever it is — is a good time to blog about it and this was clearly one of those times.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Cloudways is ideal for any size or type of WordPress site. It’s one of the few hosts that will let you BOYO cloud, so to speak, where you can hold your work on a cloud server (like a DigitalOcean droplet, for instance) and let Cloudways manage the hosting, giving you all the freedom to scale when needed on top of the benefits of having a managed host. So, if you need a fully managed, autoscaling hosting solution for WordPress like we do here at CSS-Tricks, Cloudways has you covered.

[cssscriptcom]

Bootstrap 5 Select Dropdown Enhancer - AvalynxSelect

AvalynxSelect is a JavaScript plugin that transforms the regular <select> element into a Bootstrap dropdown component with support for live search, custom styles, scrollable lists, and more. How to use it: 1. Download the main script avalynx-select.js and insert it into your Bootstrap project. <link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/cdn/bootstrap.min.css" /> <script…

[ghostshadow-k-r]

More and more unsolved mysteries

Imprisoning those vision with grey grey fog

Swirling in an unprehendable dance

Truth is already nowhere to found

The Izanami that shows on your screen now was not the complete one,because her other part — Marl Velvet still exists out there.They borned from the collective subconsciousness,fulfilling her people's wishes which is granting them a peaceful life.

But as time passes,those desires was start getting complex and more and more distorted.Which let her ended up being separated into two parts like now.

She had choosed somepony and granted them the power of persona to test them what will happen.They are — Dropdown,Steel Volt and also Vital Farm.

There's more,she also created the TV world with fog as one important role in her experiment toward this little town that she has protected all along ever since she appeared.

Could the Special Investigation Team break the fog successfully?Or would the fog blurred their vision?

Let's wait and see.

[tutorialswebsite]

Convert Checkbox Lists into Dropdown on Mobile | Dropdown with Checkbox

Checkboxes are useful when allowing users to select multiple options. A dropdown allows users to tap and expand the options. This video will guide you through A simple process to convert checkbox lists into dropdown on mobile devices to ensuring your forms remain user-friendly on all device.

Watch Video 💻 ➡️: https://youtu.be/g-zDHYHrdiQ

Article link ➡️: https://bit.ly/3B1RH1N

Demo link ➡️: https://bit.ly/47Hz7II

[journeyjottings]

Health and Care Worker Visa Applications Down 76% This Year

In contrast, there has been a steep rise in people applying for the skilled worker visa, as well as their dependents.

The government said the various drops in legal migration show their plan "is working".

Just 12,400 people applied for the Health and Care Worker visa from January to April this year, according to the latest statistics published by the government on Wednesday.

During the same period last year, 50,900 applications were made - 76% more than this year.

In March, the government announced social care workers would no longer be able to bring dependents on their visa.

In April, there was a 58% fall in health and care dependents applying compared with April 2023, in the first full month where statistics are available following the announcement.

There was also a 12% reduction in people applying for the sponsored study visa, from 49,400 to 43,600. A sponsored study visa is where an international student or schoolchild is sponsored by an education provider such as an independent school or university.

Applications for dependents on the sponsored study visa dropped by a dramatic 79%, from 38,900 to 8,300.

Advertisement That fall comes after the government announced last year that from 1 January this year, post-graduate students could not bring dependents unless they were studying for a PhD or other doctorate, or a research-based degree.

In contrast, the number of people applying for a "skilled worker" visa rose by 41%, with their dependents increasing by 62%.

On 4 April, the government increased the minimum salary for the skilled worker visa from £26,200 to £38,700, so there has not yet been a month of statistics following that announcement.

Home Secretary James Cleverly hailed the drop in health and care worker visa applications as he said it was evidence their plan to "deliver the largest-ever cut to legal migration in our country's history is working".

He added: "The British people deserve an immigration system that puts their interests first.

"Our approach is about control and fairness; to the highly skilled coming here who deserve a decent wage, to taxpayers who shouldn't be relied on to support them, and to British workers who shouldn't be undercut.

"We will continue to keep these measures under close review and if needed, we will not hesitate to go further."

Labour's shadow immigration minister, Stephen Kinnock, accused the government of "scrambling around, desperately trying to clean up the mess they made" as he pointed to the "record high" in applications to the Skilled Worker visa.

"Labour is clear that we will deliver a Skills and Growth levy to support local people into training, ensure no return to Tory rules that allowed employers to undercut British workers, and make sure migration and skills policy are joined up so we can support the aims of the UK economy," he added.

Source: sky news

[codingflicks]

3D Flipping Dropdown Menu

[codenewbies]

CSS Dropdown Menu

[cssscriptcom]

Convert HTML Lists into Custom Dropdowns - Simple Select

Simple Select is a lightweight custom select JavaScript library that transforms regular HTML lists into highly customizable and fully accessible dropdowns. Features No external dependencies. Just vanilla JS and CSS. Provides structure and basic behavior, but zero styling opinions. You control the look entirely. Uses straightforward CSS classes (simple-select-trigger, simple-select-dropdown,…

[ghostshadow-k-r]

In case you're wondering,yes,he was a blank-flank.

Dropdown was a police officer that used to work in a big city,but right after a mistake during his duty,he ended up being dispatched to Padther,which is a boring little town.

He was very unhappy about it.He have thought about giving up on himself, just living like that, and stay at Padther for the rest of his life.But he had met his new work partner,and his partner welcomed him,he didn't really care about Dropdown's cutie mark thing and always invited Dropdown to having dinner along with his daughter.

Back then,Dropdown was still little,his parents was worried about him being a blank-flank,and they only cared about it.And of course,he was crowded out by those pony around him.Although he didn't get his own cutie mark,he was clever,at least,clever enough to get good grades everytime during an exam even he had entered police academy.

The reason that he entered the police academy was quite simple,to carry a gun around legally.He knows that this world doesn't friendly to an untalented individual,and he hates it.

But the appearance of his partner had changed him a bit,and he did enjoy the moment with them.Unfortunately,he was still stressful and bored about his life.And when he had discovered his ability to enter the television,he decided to make fun by using it.Of course,it ends up causing a series of cases that costs two life and several kidnaps.

He hid it pretty well,pretending that he was a hardworking police officer that was trying to find out the truth,"unintentionally"giving some information to The Investigation Team to help them out.But,they still find out who the real culprit is,and they had got in a fight in the TV World.

After being defeated and arrested by The Investigation Team,he willingly accepted his defeat and decided to stay in jail.He thought that his partner would never come,but he was wrong.Totally wrong.He has come to visit him,they having talk together just like old times,even the barrier is separating them.

Dropdown has always hated to get in some sort of relationship thing,but...well...at least not now,not Infront of him and his family.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

@support @staff what in the world is going on? I keep getting auth errors when I try to post things and when I tried to log out in order to log back in the website keeps error looping me to the offline tumblr page rather than logging me in properly.

this is like my 4th attempt to log in by going to the login page directly via URL. It also seems to have locked me onto the bright white colour scheme, nothing I click is working? Drafts are saving but nothing else is functional?

[timethehobo]

The way Rook stiffens up when they drop from a ledge tho. X’D

[honkbird]

The big art post !! the behind-the-scenes of the tribalhunter PNGtuber stuff ! At least on the art side-- I can talk about the coding mechanics but that's not quite my place to. The high-level overview of that is there's some cool stuff going on with memory wrappers and godot to get stuff shake'n and jamm'n The rest of it is below the cut just so you don't have to scroll tons if you don't care, but take some time and read !! 3 days of work y'know !!

The first sketches were started at 10 pm tuesday the 15th. I tweaked it with some edits until about 1 am

For people working on pngs or long term projects -- make notes !! genuinely !! you can see "ok what was i thinking when i did this" and it made like infinitely easier. You might notice that stage 2 png was not long for this world -- we ended up cutting that one and shifting 3-5 down a stage, and just making a larger final stage. The night ended with: these!

Larger final, we moved where some hands ended up, cleaned some notes, and so on

Wednesday I got to work

on some second pass ones, e.g., cleaner lineart. Mind you, not final! To have proper safespace with the png we had to make actual layered sections to avoid ripped seams on squashing and stretching and rotating and etc.

These also had the first of the talk sprites! I don't do entirely new sprites for the talking ones just because of the pure quantity of images. So, just an arm tilt and head angling. This means we have mute and a talk variants of a few sprites (e.g., the stage 1 is 3 sprites. Body, scarf flappies, and head. We have talk versions of the body and the head). Also, he used to have nips! there was going to be a slightly darker purple but we scrapped it for . well . obvious reasons. We went with classy scarf modesty.

This is how you know you're doing well!

Thursday I started on the finals!

This was the first one sent -- showing off the layers. Tip, I used to layer based on like "back arm" "head" "fore body" etc. It's weirder to get used to when you use numbered layers, but holy shit it made importing easier. You automatically know the layer order to put them in to avoid clipping. Getting these done I got to work on testing 'em too!

this gave us our first working model! Oh, he used to have black robes too! this was to match the custom ingame sprites he got, but the color wasn't quite popping enough. The scarf saturation would later be turned up too, and more color adjusting. But this was workable! A lovely demo. All that was left was design tweaks and the talk sprites!

Friday was dedicated to

figuring out the colors and the talk sprites. For giggles, here's a bunch of variants produced!

We changed the robes, the scarf tone, and his lower gradient. neat Brave fact, his design has a gradient! It's horrible for gif compression! With all that done, then came doing well . all of the sprites!

Note, the talk sprites had some copied mute ones for visual reference. Gotta be consistent! It was at this point the pngtuber was "done", so to speak. Talk sprites worked and everything uh . jiggled right. But I still had a whole weekend! There wasn't as much photo evidence. What WAS changed between then and the final was: 1) the gradient was shifted to be a smooth curve instead of dappling 2) the talk sprite for stage 5's beak was fixed to remove a tangent line 3) the belly for stage 5 was rounded out to be more consistent with the game (less "doughy" to quote) 4) we added another sprite for the arm on stage 5 to layer better. Those changes weren't done until about Saturday, and then the code was tweaked all the way up until adding damage and transition effects on sunday and monday!

P.S., the model still clipped in the end a little! The code did some growth based on the fullness factor and . uh. wow!

Anway woo !! that was some wip photos and stories, I wish there was more of an intense struggle to tell but it was pretty quickly done. My shoulderblade hurts a bit to tell the truth and I think I overdid it on the pace but hooray!

[antiadvil]

Thanks Google AI. I think it's really important that Dan chose to respect Dan and Phil's privacy that way

[iraprince]

also wow this new ui on desktop.... SUCKS................. on one hand i can see that they're TRRRYYYYING??? to listen to us when we say "cluttering the page up w a bunch of garbage is bad" but they've overshot it and decided to hide every useful/regularly-clicked button from us behind a nesting cascade of additional unnecessary clicks. that is not what we meant but thanks for trying

[jcmarchi]

10 Best Free Legal Compliance Plugins for WordPress – Speckyboy

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10 Best Free Legal Compliance Plugins for WordPress – Speckyboy

When running a business online, it’s important to make sure you follow the laws of your area, country, and internationally. The laws can differ depending on where you are and what kind of website you have. Thankfully, WordPress plugins can assist you in meeting these legal requirements.

Remember, these suggestions are not a replacement for real legal advice. If you have specific questions, it’s best to ask a professional who knows the law.

To help set you on the right legal track, we have a collection of WordPress plugins that can help with many of the different legal aspects of running a website. We’ve organized them by category to make it easier for you to find what you need. These plugins can be a big help in making sure your website is on the right side of the law.

EU Cookie Law WordPress Plugins

Cookie Notice by dFactory

Cookie Notice by dFactory provides an easy way to let your site’s visitors know about your use of cookies. You can customize a notice that will appear either on the top or bottom of the page. Users can accept, decline, or read more about your policies via clickable buttons.

CookieYes Cookie Banner & Compliance Plugin

Cookie Law Info will create a customizable banner to inform visitors of your cookie policies. The banner can be automatically removed after a few seconds, or you can require the user to accept your terms manually.

Privacy Policy & Terms of Service WordPress Plugins

Auto Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, have created both a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy under the Creative Commons Sharealike license.

Auto Terms of Service and Privacy Policy brings these documents to your site. Simply add your organization’s info in the plugin settings and display the documents via a WordPress Shortcode. This plugin is meant for sites based in the United States.

WPLegalPages Privacy Policy & T&Cs Generator

WPLegalPages will generate a variety of must-have compliance documents for your website. The free version of the plugin includes a privacy policy, terms & and conditions, DCMA policy, and more.

Setup is simple – enter your business name and select which documents you want to generate. A cookie consent bar is also included. The pro version ups the ante with guided wizards, age verification, and popups.

EU VAT WordPress Plugins

WooCommerce EU VAT Compliance

Those running WooCommerce can take the pain out of VAT with WooCommerce EU VAT Compliance. It will record a customer’s location, show VAT calculations in the backend, and automatically add VAT to product pricing. You can even block out EU customers if you’d rather not collect VAT at all.

EDD Quaderno

EDD Quaderno helps to make Easy Digital Downloads shops compliant with VAT and the intricacies of other locales. It will also create improved versions of the standard EDD receipts. To use the plugin, you’ll need a Quaderno account.

Age Verification WordPress Plugins

Age Gate

Age Gate is a highly configurable plugin for restricting age-based content. Select the minimum age along with the content you want to protect, and underage users will be locked out.

Choose from a variety of user input methods (dropdown, text field, or yes/no buttons) and customize the look of the UI to match your website. The plugin is also SEO-friendly and won’t try to restrict common search bots.

Easy Age Verify

Make age verification simple with Easy Age Verify. The plugin offers turnkey settings based on different types of website content. It’s also built with accessibility and SEO in mind. The pro version is fully customizable, with the ability to match your site’s look.

Digital Signature WordPress Plugins

Gravity Forms Signature Add-On

This unofficial add-on for Gravity Forms will allow users to digitally sign documents on your website. There’s also a version for Ninja Forms.

CF7Sign – Signature Field For Contact Form 7

Adding a signature field to your Contact Form 7 forms is just a click away. Once you’ve installed and activated CF7Sign, a “Sign” field will be added to your forms’ options. There’s not much room for customization here, but it’s a dead-simple solution.

Keeping it Legal

Granted, it can be a bit of a hassle to keep track of compliance issues. But that doesn’t make it any less vital to do so. WordPress plugins are there to make the task a bit easier – even automating the process in some cases.

So, there’s no excuse for slacking! Take some time to learn your responsibilities as a website owner and use the handy plugins above to help you manage. Obviously, using these plugins alone won’t make you compliant – but they will help set you on the right path.

Legal Compliance WordPress Plugin FAQs

What Are Legal Compliance WordPress Plugins?

They are plugins designed to help your WordPress site adhere to legal regulations. They cover aspects like privacy policies, cookie consent, and terms of service requirements.

Who Needs Legal Compliance Plugins for Their WordPress Site?

Anyone who wants to ensure their site complies with legal standards, such as GDPR, CCPA, or other regional laws. This is particularly important for sites that handle user data or operate internationally.

Why Is It Important to Use Legal Compliance Plugins on WordPress?

They help protect you from legal issues by ensuring your website meets the necessary legal standards for data protection and privacy.

Can These Plugins Guarantee My Site Is Fully Legally Compliant?

While they significantly help in compliance, you should consult with a legal professional to make sure your site meets all specific legal requirements.

Are Legal Compliance Plugins Easy to Use and Set Up?

Most of these plugins are user-friendly, offering guided setup processes and pre-designed templates for legal documents.

Do I Need a Legal Compliance Plugin If My Site Doesn’t Sell Anything?

Yes, if your site collects any form of user data, including through contact forms or analytics tools, compliance with privacy laws is very important.

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