I've been working on this cool little project for WordPress, a sort of an Artificial Intelligence based on 🎩 Microsoft Azure, ☘️...
Ahmad Awais
Ahmad Awais 🔥 Ridiculously hard-working Full Stack Web Developer ⓦ Regular WordPress Core Contributor 📣 TEDx Speaker ✌️ Spends 50% of his time building FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) used by over 30,000 Developers 🎖 WordPress Advocate & 🙌 Community Evangelist 🎯 JavaScript & DevOps fanboy 😂 Cracks silly jokes 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) 🍕 Learn more about Ahmad ↣
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2017Talk: Personal Development for a WordPress Developer
This last Saturday, I was invited, at our local WordPress Meetup Lahore, to speak. It took me a week (which is quite normal) to understand what kind of audience would be there. I am a Full Stack WordPress developer, which means there were a number of topics that I could talk about. But, what good a talk would do if the majority didn't understand [...]
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WordPress 4.4 Clifford and My Core Contributions
WordPress 4.4 "Clifford" just got released. I managed to get six core contributions, two commits to TwentySixteen theme and twelve commits to the WordPress REST API and I am super duper excited about it.
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A Prediction, Calypso & What I Think Is the Next WordPress!
My take on the all new WordPress.com's Calypso and how I think I predicted it. There are a few more predictions in there about The Next WordPress™ and why I feel it's the best way forward.
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Will WordPress Ever Rule the World Wide Web?
Everyone's getting a WordPress REST API, so I let my mind wander for a little while into the future, to find out what would it be like to use, write, develop and design with WordPress or what they call the Future WordPress.
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BEM CSS Basics for WordPress Themes Developers
BEM is a logical standard of writing CSS it helps make CSS more Semantic. BEM's hierarchical naming convention helps a team of developers to understand the structure of a website to work uniformly and with harmony.
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Introducing CF7 Customizer | Form Styling via WP Live Customizer
CF7 Customizer is an intuitive plugin to design your contact forms via WordPress live customizer, right at the front-end. Cherry on the top, it will be free forever.
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WordPress and HTTP/2 — What Developers Need to Know?
We are at the verge of HTTP/2 being introduced as a new standard. If you develop WP Themes being a front-end developer, you need to read this. Hacks and performance fixes which we had for HTTP 1.1 will actually slow down your theme's page loading speed in HTTP/2.
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My Advanced Gulp Workflow for WordPress Themes
If you are an absolute beginner when it comes to Gulp, you might want to read Introducing WPGulp: An Easy to Use WordPress Gulp Boilerplate. Moreover, this post is just an article, which hasn’t been updated in a long time. I maintain this workflow under WPGulp repository. I suggest you all to read this post to get an idea and use WPGulp [...]
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What Every Beginner Is Doing Wrong as a Web Developer
Being a beginner at web development in 2015 may not be the best thing. Confusion, decision-making, marketers, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Introducing _Child – A WordPress Child Theme Boilerplate
Today when I had to create a child theme, I thought of creating a boilerplate first, in accordance to DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) philosophy. So, there you go, a WordPress child theme boilerplate was born and the only parent (me) chose to call it _child.
Ahmad Awais