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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By : Alex Libby
Book Image

Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By: Alex Libby

Overview of this book

PostCSS is a tool that has quickly emerged as the future of existing preprocessors such as SASS and Less, mainly because of its power, speed, and ease of use. This comprehensive guide offers in-depth guidance on incorporating cutting-edge styles into your web page and at the same time maintaining the performance and maintainability of your code. The book will show how you can take advantage of PostCSS to simplify the entire process of stylesheet authoring. It covers various techniques to add dynamic and modern styling features to your web pages. As the book progresses, you will learn how to make CSS code more maintainable by taking advantage of the modular architecture of PostCSS. By the end of this book, you would have mastered the art of adding modern CSS effects to web pages by authoring high performing, maintainable stylesheets.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering PostCSS for Web Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Converting a WordPress installation


All of our existing examples have so far been based around single pages; many developers are likely to use content management systems such as WordPress.

Thankfully, we can apply many of the same principles we've used so far to styling WordPress—in fact, there are some plugins we can use that mimic SASS, which is used to create core style sheets for themes that come as part of each WordPress download. The theme we will use is Twenty Sixteen, which comes with current versions of WordPress downloaded since December 2015; it can also be downloaded from https://wordpress.org/themes/twentysixteen/.

For the remainder of this chapter, we're going to explore some of the tips and tricks we can use to incorporate PostCSS into a WordPress theme. A key point of note here, is that we've already covered some of the tasks that can be used—with care and planning, some can easily be reused when creating style sheets for CMS applications. We'll explore some of the tips and...