Ahmad AwaisIt’s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I’m sitting here in the park at Union Square, San Francisco — prepping for the...
Ahmad Awais
Helping businesses build developer-led adoption for 10+ yrs.
VP of Developer Relations (DevRel, DX Eng., Dev Content Docs) at RapidAPI. I'm Hiring!
📟 Edutainer at Node.js CLI Automation course (100 videos · 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course (over 26K devs). 🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🚀 Mars Ingenuity Helicopter code contributor 🏆 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator.
✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
🔥 Satya Nadella · CEO of Microsoft, said — Awais is an awesome example for developers.
🙌 Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais.
👋… Awais is mostly active on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais
Hands on Review of Nokia Lumia 1320
Nokia sent me one of their lower end smartphone devices, Nokia Lumia 1320, for a hands-on review. I personally used it for about a month before writing this review. Let’s start with the specs. Nokia Lumia 1320# Let’s me show you some hands-on pics Lumia 1320 Specifications# General – Supports 2G/3G/4G SIM – Micro SIM [...]
Ahmad Awais
Learn How to Configure W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin
I have had been writing a series for beginners about configuring W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin to speed up WordPress based sites. Here is the link to Configuring W3 Total Cache A quote from my first article Two reasons to start: User Experience. If your site loads faster, your visitors stay happy, your conversions increase, extended number [...]
Ahmad Awais
Coding a Basic Shortcodes WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
Shortcode API in WordPress is really cool. I already wrote about coding your very first shortcode in WordPress. Today’s discussion is about using your WordPress knowledge in the best possible way. Today I’ll be creating the same three shortcodes we created in the earlier article, but this time we will be coding them through a [...]
Ahmad Awais
Code Your First Shortcode in WordPress
Shortcode API in WordPress is fun. It helps you create small tags to address a chunk of code. All you do is write some [tag] and it returns the HTML/CSS/PHP code which you have saved inside it. Shortcodes can be used both in the Visual & the Text tab of your post/page editor. Let’s build a basic shortcode. Building shortcodes is [...]
Ahmad Awais
How to Create a Front-End Login Page in WordPress
WordPress as we know it, is not just a blogging tool, it is a CMS (Content Management System). Most of the freelancers out there use WordPress to build custom sites to entertain requirement friendly behavior. Even a basic CMS based project in WordPress demands for a custom login page in WordPress. Today I intend to discuss how one can create [...]
Ahmad Awais
How to Get Free Support for WordPress Questions?
I have had been working with WordPress for over eight years now. I learnt WordPress on my own, did I mention, I have a degree in electrical engineering from a top notch university in my country? When I started working with WordPress, it helped me build amazing sites, from basic blogs to advance and complex privacy based user interaction CMS [...]
Ahmad Awais
How I Found a Perfect Domain Name for a New Brand
We often find ourselves confused over making some straightforward decisions attached to the technology. Or should I call them hard decisions? I have bought over 500 domains throughout my life. You like stories, and I like stories; hell, everyone like stories, so let’s start with an account of my own. The first domain I ever bought was [...]
Ahmad Awais
Protected: All a beginner needs to know about WordPress
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Ahmad Awais
The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress SEO by Yoast
I wrote a series of tutorials over WordPress SEO by Yoast at Tutsplus being a Core Author. In these tutorials, I covered an extensive beginner friendly explanation towards the true power of WP SEO by Yoast. Give ’em a try. Article #1 Configuration Article #2 Social Settings Article #3 Final Tweaking Article #4 On Page SEO Article #5 [...]
Ahmad Awais
How I Re-Designed ProPakistani.pk? A 360 Re-Branding Project
Like many other tech-junkies in Pakistan, ProPakistani.pk has been a permanent fixture in my RSS feeds for many years. I’ve watched them grow from a relatively lowbrow tech blog into a thorough, to the point, actually valuable online telcos resource. Part of that has been seen partly from ‘the inside’, as my team is contributing [...]
Ahmad Awais