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title: "Category: Resources"
url: https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/resources/
description: "Entries filed under the Resources category on The Modern Web."
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# Category: Resources

Entries filed under Resources. Narrower categories: Icons.

## [February 2017](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/)

### [Essential WordPress plugins for your website](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/essential-wordpress-plugins/)

Plugin recommendations date badly, but the categories do not. A content site generally needs help in four places: search metadata, security hardening, caching and performance, and backups. Everything else is specific to the project.

Filed under: [Resources](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/resources/), [Security](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/security/), [SEO](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/seo/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/), [WordPress](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/wordpress/), [WordPress Plugins](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/essential-wordpress-plugins/)

### [Add animated gradients to your website with Javascript](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/add-beautiful-animated-gradients-to-your-website/)

An animated gradient gives a page movement without loading a video or a sequence of images. The whole effect is colour values changing over time, which costs a fraction of what any media file would.

Filed under: [CSS](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/css/), [Javascript](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/javascript/), [Resources](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/resources/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/02/add-beautiful-animated-gradients-to-your-website/)

## [January 2017](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/01/)

### [My favourite online web design and development resources](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/01/online-web-design-development-resources/)

A useful bookmark list splits into three parts: places to solve a specific technical problem, places to check how something is supposed to behave, and places to look when the work needs fresh air. Mixing them into one list is why most bookmark folders go unused.

Filed under: [Resources](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/resources/), [Web Design](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-design/), [Web Development](https://themodernweb.co.uk/category/web-development/) · [Permalink](https://themodernweb.co.uk/2017/01/online-web-design-development-resources/)