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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.
Ahmad Awais
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!
Ahmad Awais
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 [...]
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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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