The Digital Gridiron – XLIX: Brand Engagement Stats From Super Bowl Ads #infographic

Sunday's Big Game was as much about football as it was about brands. As advertisers battled to be the most memorable, the most eye-catching and the most influential on TV, they simultaneously strategized to be all those things on the web as well. That's why Offerpop created this infographic, demonstrating just how loud and active fans are on digital, which teams and brands won on social media, and why now more than ever it's paramount for brands to have a true cross-channel digital strategy to engage with these conversations.

Let's explore how this year's big game focused primarily on brand engagement and the digital path to purchase.

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jQuery ClassyPaypal : Stylish PayPal payment buttons

ClassyPaypal is a jQuery plugin that allows you to quickly add stylish PayPal payment buttons to your website for instant and secure payments.

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jQuery My Instagram Gallery

Create your own instagram gallery on your website with this plugin.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Being On-call

This article was sponsored by PagerDuty. Thank you for supporting the sponsors who make SitePoint possible. The word DevOps is a portmanteau of two words: development and operations, and it’s a relatively new term used in agile system administration. In the past, developers would build products, services and infrastructure, and then the responsibility for maintaining […]

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by Adam Bolte via SitePoint

Getting Started with the WordPress Theme Customization API

The WordPress Theme Customization API allows developers to easily enable a 'Customizer Page' to their themes. The Theme Customizer API is supported from the 3.4 release onwards. WordPress recommends that developers provide theme customisation options in the Theme Customizer page, rather than providing options in a theme options page.

Allowing users to change the appearance of your theme, edit or add settings to your theme via the WordPress Theme Customizer page will make your theme easy to use and appear professional. In this tutorial, I will show you what theme customization is, from a users perspective, and how to use the WordPress Theme Customization API to control the Customizer Page.

This article assumes that you are familiar with the fundamentals of WordPress Theme and Plugin Development.

What Is the Theme Customization API?

The Theme Customization API allows developers to build controls and settings options in the Customize section found in the Appearance menu in the WordPress Dashboard. The Theme Customization screen (or Theme Customizer Page) allows site administrators to modify a theme's settings, color schemes, widgets, titles and logos, to name a few of the common examples. It also provides a preview of those changes in real-time.

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by Narayan Prusty via SitePoint

5 Proven Tips to Improve your App Marketplace Ranking

For a long time, search engine optimization has been crucial to the success of most businesses. Today ranking at the top of Google search results isn’t enough for most businesses. The rise of smartphones has caused most consumers to turn to mobile applications instead of websites to complete tasks when on the go. No longer limited to phone calls or playing games, mobile devices are now used to check movie reviews, shop online, connect with friends and much more.

Most users have a web browser installed on their phone, but in most cases, installing an app is more efficient than using a web browser.

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by Charles Costa via SitePoint

Screencast: Building Smarter UI Interactions using :checked

The :checked pseudo-class is an often overlooked gem in CSS. When paired with checkboxes, radio buttons, and some accompanying CSS selectors, such as the direct sibling combinator (+), it opens up some powerful applications. Using :checked means that your CSS can react to state alone, without the need for JavaScript. This makes :checked a must in the CSS developer's utility belt. Watch Ryan guide you through building an iOS toggle switch using these techniques. You can download the code sample from GitHub. [youtube XAITicOZCdk]

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by Ryan Seddon via SitePoint