Thoriq Firdaus

Thoriq is a writer for Hongkiat.com with a passion for web design and development. He is the author of Responsive Web Design by Examples, where he covered his best approaches in developing responsive websites quickly with a framework.

Latest posts

What’s New In Codekit 2

Codekit 2 was released a few weeks ago, and as expected, there are some big changes in this new version. For those of you who’ve just heard of it, C…

How to Manage and Use Code Snippets in WordPress

In our previous discussions, we explored various WordPress customizations that involve adding code to the functions.php file to enhance theme function…

12 Essential Plugins for WordPress Developers

As the current most-used CMS, WordPress has numerous plugins that enhances its capabilities. To name a few, there is a very popular plugin called WooC…

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2014)

We have been covering this series for almost two years. But it seems that the resources for developers and designers are infinite; every month, there …

Easy Mac Setup: Install PHP, Apache & MySQL – Part III

This is the last part of our series: Install PHP, Apache, and MySQL in Mac without MAMP. And if you have been following the series (see Part 1 and Par…

Setting Up PHP, Apache, and MySQL on macOS Without MAMP Part II

In the previous tutorial of this series, we configured Apache and PHP, enabling us to run .php files on our local server. As a follow-up, we will now …

How to Install PHP, Apache, and MySQL on a Mac Without Using MAMP

Using MAMP is probably the easiest way to get PHP, Apache, and MySQL up and running on macOS. You simply place the application in the Applications fol…

A Guide to: Responsive Web Design with Bootstrap 3 and Sass

Bootstrap offers a responsive grid system and a variety of web components that make it easy to create a responsive website swiftly. While Bootstrap tr…

Covering Event in Real-time with Liveblog for WordPress

Liveblogging is a popular way to cover an event in real-time – it is similar to a Twitter feed, only it happens on your own site. If you like to fol…

CSS4 Document Rule: A User’s Guide

Lots of websites have a ton of pages, but typically use just a single stylesheet to dictate the design. This is good practice because it reduces HTTP …

How to Publish a Post to WordPress via Email

WordPress post and page editor comes with a WYSIWYG editor, making it as easy to write and format posts as using a word processor like Microsoft Word …

3 LESS CSS Features You Should Know

It’s been a while since our last discussion on LESS CSS. Today, LESS CSS has reached version 1.5, and it has been evolving with new features that ma…