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On Winning the FOSS Design Award Trophy & Appreciation from WordPress Co-Founder (Matt Mullenweg)
Folks, I've two amazing news to share! Last weekend, WordCamp US was taking place at the music city, Nashville, TN, USA. Less did I know, I'd win an Automattic Design Award Trophy for Best Solution category. And WordPress founder — the Matt Mullenweg in his State of Word talk would ask for a round of applause, calling my open source work [...]
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WordPress 5.0 Launched With a React.js Based Gutenberg Editor and I Got to Contribute — Yay! 🎉
The most anticipated WordPress 5.0 just got released. The core now includes audacious new editing experience code-named Gutenberg along with the all-new TwentyNineteen default theme. WordPress is embracing JavaScript, React.js is now a part of its core. Tell me about that… 📺 Watch this quick video on WordPress 5.0 “Bebo” ↓ [...]
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A Custom WordPress Dashboard with MongoDB Atlas, Microsoft Azure, & Serverless Functions!
An extensive tutorial where Ahmad Awais shares how he's building a Custom WordPress dashboard which connects several hundred IoT devices, a bunch of 3rd party services, serverless Azure functions, to host data via MongoDB Atlas while making use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with the help of Microsoft Azure.
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🦊 Building A WordPress Artificial Intelligence Plugin
I've been working on this cool little project for WordPress, a sort of an Artificial Intelligence based on 🎩 Microsoft Azure, ☘️ MongoDB Atlas, and a bunch of other services that helps me automate lots of silly things for my WordPress website.
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My AWP Gutenberg Interview #AMA — Think Like A Block
I’ve been super passionate about everything Gutenberg. Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor that’s going to change how you write content or build websites with WordPress. So, I did this interview at AWP Gutenberg Interview Series, where I talked about Gutenberg development and other stuff. 📺WATCH THE INTERVIEW: You can listen [...]
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Create Guten Block Toolkit: Launch, Introduction, Philosophy, & More! 🚀
I am excited to launch Create Guten Block. `create-guten-block` is a zero-configuration dev-toolkit (#0CJS) to develop WordPress Gutenberg blocks in a matter of minutes without configuring React, Webpack, ESLint, Babel, ES6/7/8/Next, etc.
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[PODCAST INTERVIEW] Ahmad Awais — Open Source as a Lifestyle
A couple of weeks ago, I got interviewed by the WordPress PressThis Podcast about my favorite topic, i.e. Web & Open Source. I enjoyed talking about how I got into open source, grew a huge network of followers especially over 10,000 developers who use my open source code, got half a million open source software downloads, and how it has [...]
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Remove the `p` Paragraph Tags From Author Description in WordPress
Since WordPress 4.9 by default WordPress adds paragraph tags to the author descriptions. This sometimes breaks your theme styles.
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WordPress 4.9 Tipton & My Core Contributions with TheDevCouple Team!
⚡️ WordPress 4.9 Tipton just got released! Update your sites and enjoy a fantastic update this time. The customizer, widgets, security, and the code editor have seen major updates. So, much more to share. 🍒 If you’re not reading my blog for the first time, you probably know about my commitment to the WordPress software and that [...]
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Did WordPress Just Influence Facebook to Relicense React Under MIT License
Facebook just announced that they are relicensing React under MIT license and I think this is huge for so many reasons. Also, did WordPress had something to do with this decision? Did I help?
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WordPress-React Breakup: My Vue on P*react + WordPress Development!
WordPress is breaking up with ReactJS due to the patent clause. What I think about Vue JS & Preact JS in the WordPress Gutenberg and the WordPress Core. Also, Calypso (WordPress.com) and Jetpack will follow the pursuit, says Matt.
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MEETUP: 📦 Learn to Host Your WordPress Site With DigitalOcean!
Hey, everyone! I am arranging a DigitalOcean + WordPress Meetup. I will be talking about how you can host your WordPress site yourself with a DigitalOcean droplet!
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Introducing Gutenberg Boilerplate For Third Party Custom Blocks!
I have built a Gutenberg boilerplate to help WordPress theme and plugin developers kick-start their development with the new editor in town. It's heavily inline documented. This post also contains my thoughts and concerns about the Gutenberg project.
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A Premium WordPress Newsletter!
Soon (read as, in July) — I will be releasing this premium newsletter club called The WordPress Takeaway. This post serves as a way to let you folks know what I am up to as well as to hold myself accountable!
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WordPress 4.8: TheDevCouple Is Now WordPress Core Contributor 🎉
WordPress 4.8 just got released. As usual, I got props for my core contributions but my wife — Maedah Batool — she also became a Core Contributor — her first contribution. Join me to say congrats to her :)
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WordPress Is Like Your Clothes!
People often wonder, why WordPress gets so many updates so often. Many people I meet who actually consider this a bad thing. Recently, at a meetup, a group of students came up to me, worried sick. They wanted to use WordPress for their software engineering final years’ project. Though, they were not as comfortable with WordPress as [...]
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Introducing WPSass: Use Sass with WordPress via Node NPM Scripts
I was working on a new project, where I only needed to convert Sass to CSS in a WordPress site. Since WPGulp was an overkill for this, I went ahead and built WPSass. Just does one thing, and does it well.
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New WordPress Plugin Repo Surprised Me!
I am a WordPress plugin developer. While I have written many plugins for WordPress and shared them on GitHub, I also host 12 plugins on the WordPress.org/Plugins repository — with more than 400k total downloads. A few days ago the new WordPress plugin repo went live, and I along with many other developers got surprised by that. I was [...]
Ahmad Awais
WordPress Editor: What Needs To Change!
Matt said the Editor would be more blocks like and Weston suggested the JS Widgets can be a real contender for this kinda thing. I agree with him on that. I think there are many ways we can tackle the editor upgrade. But even before we jump to any kind of conclusions, it is important to review what are we going to improve. You see, things [...]
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Building A New WordPress Editor!
This is going to be an extra short post and I plan to come back to it write more about my plans. Last year in September, I started building a new WordPress Editor. Here’s a gif to get you all excited about it and stuff. New WordPress Editor?# Gif or did not happen! Sure! 🔥 Last year in Sep, I started working on a new #WordPress Editor. [...]
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WordPress 4.7 & The Spirit of Regular Core Contribution
I cannot tell you how much proud I feel being a contributing developer for the latest WordPress release i.e. WP 4.7 “Vaughan”. This release has been a huge accomplishment for the WordPress community. Today, I plan to share a small story about how it feels to contribute to the WordPress core software regularly.
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WordPress in Urdu — History in the Making!
? We did it! WordPress 4.7 will be the first WordPress version with 100% Urdu translation! Thanks to 110 translators. ? #WPTranslationday.
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Introducing CEM CLI | Move From cPanel to EasyEngine With Ease
CEM CLI is a cPanel to EasyEngine Migration CLI. It's quite new at the moment and is meant to automate bits of the repetitive tasks that one has to go through while migrating their sites from a cPanel based shared hosting (with no SSH access) to an EasyEngine based rented VPS.
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Are You Selling to HUMANS or Robots?
Today, I am going to talk about marketing, but before I do that, I need to make a case for who I am and why you should listen to what I have to say. That is, it's not a post from a developer who's sharing a bunch of tips on how to do it. I used to be a marketer. Wore many hats throughout my career and marketing was one of them.
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Dealing With GoDaddy ManageWP Acquisition & #WPDrama?
GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP. There's been a lot of #WPDrama! I am dealing with it, my way! GoDaddy! You & I, We Need to Talk! Read why I think this acquisition would turn out to be an excellent thing.
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[SERIES] WordPress Product Launch User Experience Best Practices
100 hours of research and 6 part FREE series about how to improve WordPress products launch and the overall user experience. Throughout this series, I have shared my strategies of how I got about 15,000 downloads, 5,000 active site installs, 4,300 Newsletter subscribers, and got featured in the trending products at ProductHunt with roughly [...]
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Should I Create a New Menu or a SubMenu inside WP Admin Panel
Should you create a new menu or a sub-menu for your WordPress product inside the admin panel? I have a lot to say about it. Mostly, about responsible WordPress development.
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Why You Should Never Use Colored Icons Inside the WP Admin Panel
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Getting Featured on WordPress.tv’s Homepage
John reached out to me, we had a fun little chat about global aspect of the WordPress community, giving back to WordPress as a Core Contributor, and about AWP Group with the $100K WP giveaway that I ran last month.
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WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” — Customize Component FTW
? WordPress 4.6 has been released. It is the 4th major version release where I was able to contribute code to the WordPress core. Giving back to the WordPress community; especially in the form of core contributions — has been an incredibly empowering and inherently humble experience for me...
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