Woo: You Too Have Woes
How do I put this? Dear WooThemes: to me, you have become one of the references on how to run a successful business, based solely on WordPress. Not only do you offer fantastic, pixel-perfect themes,...
View ArticleOh My, DradCast! (also Martinis)
Very happy to see my WooThemes post being discussed on the DradCast (jump to 46:05, but you should watch the whole thing. “Rap battle”, and I’ll say no more), and glad to see the i18n discussion...
View ArticleEdit Flow: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice пожитки.
Edit Flow is a fantastic plugin: it basically turns a standard WordPress installation into a newsroom, with complete control of the editorial workflow. As far as code quality is concerned, it is enough...
View ArticleOn being (or not being) a “dev”
I’ve recently heard two remarks that have puzzled me to no end. The first one was a few months ago, and the other one right after having launched this. It’s a very large and complex WordPress...
View ArticleEuropäer
So, it looks like I’m presenting the keynote talk at WordCamp Hamburg 2014, which is both an incredible honour, and also a little scary… The scary bit is that I’ve promised to intro the talk and do the...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Performance
I think I may have finally read one too many posts on “how-to-make-your-WordPress-site-faster”. It is true that the monotonous litanies, their vaguely suspect tone of link-bait, have had at least one...
View ArticleAnmut
Anmut ist die Schönheit der Gestalt unter dem Einfluss der Freiheit; die Schönheit derjenigen Erscheinungen, die die Person bestimmt. Die architektonische Schönheit macht dem Urheber der Natur, Anmut...
View ArticleHow WordCamp Europe 2013 Came to Be
This is a talk I gave at WordCamp Europe 2015 in Sevilla. As usual, I talk more than there are slides, so that on their own they’re not that useful. Anyway, I was honoured to be invited and had a...
View ArticleACF 5.8, a Flood in a Gutenberg Desert
Managing the content body of a website using blocks is generally a good idea, but from the point of view of someone developing larger, very customized projects, where sometimes the administration...
View ArticlePremium Plugins and Free Translations: Why, oh Why?
Hold on, I have to pay $250 for your plugin and work my ass off to make sure it’s translated to my language, so that, you know, I can actually use it? And you can now use all of mine and others’...
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