Our dearest Theme Reviewers admin ninja Emil Uzelac transferred Shell Lite to me few months ago and I’ve been doing maintenance together with Stanko for a few months now, as we run the theme on several sites (for clients or ours). The theme is now live on GitHub and open to ideas, patches or other contributions. [...]
Wijmo Widgets – jQuery UI based widgets
I was contacted by Packt Publishing to check out a small reference book on Wijmo Widgets. Since I’ve been playing with different JavaScript libraries and APIs over the last 2 years I decided to give it a try over the holidays. I was specific for the fact that I haven’t tried Wijmo before and I’d [...]
Profile with Cachegrind
When it comes to larger projects than yet another WordPress blog, refactoring and additional memory optimization are required to move the project in the right direction. Cachegrind is a GPL profiler for applications. It simulates how the program interacts with the architecture – including cache layers from the standard configuration of the modern systems and [...]
WordSesh overview
Last week we had the first large WordPress ‘meetup’ online called WordSesh. It was an incredible event that was yet another proof for how awesome the WordPress community is. I had the chance to speak at WordSesh and I presented the WordPress.org Themes Directory and the process of reviewing themes. The video is embedded below [...]
Local WordPress activities – April
I can barely find some time to sleep, but hopefully April would be enlightening for the local group of WordPress peeps. In the next month there are several things planned: 1 (if not two) meetups of the Bulgarian group Few WordPress sessions as a part of the CMS course in Telerik Academy WordSesh (available for [...]
WordPress Meetup Sofia
After several attempts I finally laid the foundation for the Bulgarian WordPress Meetup group. For the past 2 years I made several attempts to form a community around WordPress here after WordCamp Sofia and my sessions in Telerik Academy, the New Bulgarian University and the custom WordPress courses for startup enthusiasts. The second meetup was [...]
Mind Your JavaScript on WordPress.tv
My “Mind your JavaScript” talk from WordCamp Oslo last month is now live on WordPress.tv: 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 speakers and [...]
WordPress Developers hangout recording with Pippin and Franz
We just ended the first official WordPress Developers community hangout recorded live with Franz Kaiser and Pippin Williamson, available here: 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 different topics, such as: work styles – clients work vs. [...]