Hello everyone, today we will discuss the hot topics on the Internet and specifically the WordPress platform and some premium hints from the ThemeForest market presented by one of the authors there - Slobodan Kustrimovic (a.k.a. wpcanyon). He is an expert in the WP world and has published few themes on ThemeForest and currently working on a ...
I had a lightning talk about Sass over the weekend at the largest open source conference on the Balkans - OpenFest. We've been using it in the past few projects and the improvement in the CSS code design is remarkable.
Sass in 5 from Mario Peshev
Sass is pretty handy when comes to a CSS file resulting in more than 100 LoC. It'...
My "Mind your JavaScript" talk from WordCamp Oslo last month is now live on WordPress.tv:
https://videopress.com/v/qQ7nMQth
Special props to @koop for his JavaScript talk from 2011 and his work on the gallery feature for 3.5.
Note: the talk doesn't make much sense without the slides but unfortunately the video couldn't focus on both the s...
The pricing dilemma with WordPress themes and plugins is a critical problem, mostly due to the widespread race to the bottom. Unfortunately, people don't understand the magnitude of a problem until they are personally involved and affected by the consequences.
Discussing Business With Developers
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What I call a "Community Virus" is a fraction of a community that sets a bad example. You know, when you're a part of the society and there's a small (or larger) number of people doing bad stuff and are loud and annoying at the same time, and you tend to get embarrassed while shopping near them in the supermarket or at the airport.
The Ma...
Update: April 2020, Note: The original story was authored in January 2018. At the moment, I've accumulated 2.7 million Quora views!
Most people who follow me online know that I've been spending a lot of time on Quora lately. I've been writing answers, participating in discussions, sharing existing Quora answers with my team and interactin...
If I have to classify the factors that we consider while recruiting front-end web developers, I would break them down into several categories.
Different Categories Considered in Hiring
1. Skills
The "skills" factor is the amount of know-how you possess, your portfolio, and being able to solve different problems. Depending on the com...
I built my first site nearly 20 years ago and even then I was able to source quite a lot of information online.
Even though most of my learning was a combination of reading IDE manuals (QBasic), downloading manuals and guides on a floppy disk from Internet cafes, and reprinting original books in multiple copies since these were extremely ...
The only issue with post-thumbnails I've had was the lack of ability to resize images dynamically. I had to use add_image_size() function to define image sizes which is ineffective for many different sizes used once (or a limited number of times) as it creates thumbnails for every single uploaded image.
Kovshenin was my savior once again fo...
We just ended the first official WordPress Developers community hangout recorded live with Franz Kaiser and Pippin Williamson, available here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hAWVMk-WCs0
It's been fun hangin' out with both Pippin and Franz, it's always inspiring to have a chat with fellow contributors. In the interview we're discussing d...
