As a developer who is very sensitive about performance, I never (mostly) used any backup plugin that depends mostly upon WordPress cron and tries to backup and upload to the same server or a remote server without offloading from the main PHP process. To me, it feels like I'm slowing down the server by relying …
I write a lot of plugins, published or unpublished, a lot! Every time I have to go through the same readme writing experience ?! But this time I actually took the time and built a visual readme builder that gives you live preview that exactly will look like in WordPress.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXzWsgjEzf0 The best part is? …
I have written countless number of plugins in the last 7+ years after I started working with WordPress and created other web applications. No matter what type of applications you are building, simple or complex, small or big, one thing is common, you have to insert some data into the database, fetch them, update them …
If you need to redirect the user directly to the checkout page instead of the current product page or cart page, put this snippet to your theme's functions.php.
If you are a plugin writer like me and you write random WordPress plugins for various purposes, chances are you have to write many SQL queries for many cases. But if you look into modern PHP frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, Zend and every other framework, you will see they don't write much raw SQL queries …
Shit just got real, all of a sudden today I made my first WordPress core contribution at this ticket and in this commit :D. I was checking trac today and stumbled upon this ticket. It was really easy to find and replace some texts. So quickly I submitted a patch and it was accepted within …
Hopefully WordPress 4.0 is going to be released on 27th August, 2014. As this version is going to have language selection from the installation phase, translation is important. As the validator of WordPress Bengali project, I proposed a translation collaboration effort to give a boost in our Bengali translation. From the banner of our local …
I have been working with WordPress for about 6 years. Web development is my passion and I fell in love with WordPress very shortly as it was really easy to pick up and get going. Since then, I wrote many plugins and created a lot of themes and got involved with WordPress. Also I maintain the …
Gave this presentation on 6th WordPressian Meetup on 28th June, 2014 http://www.slideshare.net/tareq1988/wporg-pluginsubmission
Making consistent naming after my company weDevs, I named the documentation theme as weDocs. Now another plugin came as weGallery, very consistent! Another Gallery? There are many plugins available in the WordPress.org plugin directory for the same needs, gallery. I've seen the most downloaded NextGEN Gallery, it has lots of features and very complex. If …