Imagine a table of data, perhaps car data with columns: ID, Model, Make, Color, Age, etc. How do you process this data so that you can answer some simple questions or visualize it with JavaScript charts? Some questions, like “how many cars are red?” can be processed by looking at a count of rows that meet your criteria (rows where column color is red).
Other questions, like “what is the distribution of colors in your data set?”, requires shifting or pivoting the data, as you want to evaluate a specific column instead of rows. Charting will often need this data pivot and doing it optimally is crucial if you are working with a large amount of data on the client side.
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Last year I wrote an article on Gravity Forms and now I want to follow up with something on Formidable Forms. Instead of doing a comparison between these two WordPress plugins, I will write about two problems that I have encountered with FormidableForms and explain how I have resolved them. The first one is based on the backend, PHP code that will create repeatable fields inside a form and the second one goes into the front end, JavaScript code that helps hooking into “in-place” edit.
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I’m back and happy to announce a new WordPress theme that I have created called Minimalist which you can see on this blog. Why? Because almost all WordPress themes focus on nice design and flexibility while killing performance. It looks great on the cover but then you dig in and see a lot of garbage in the source code, ridiculous amounts of database calls, a large amount of files, and plugins needed for simple stuff. Most of it is not needed.
Minimalist is simple, fast, responsive, and SEO optimized WordPress theme that can be used out of the box or as a great starting point for WP theme development. I only tweaked a few things and applied it on this blog.
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