Almost 2 years ago, when I was planning to learn more about WordPress plugin development and get my hands dirty with some coding, I was given an amazing opportunity. Morgan Kay who developed the Chamber Dashboard plugins asked me if I would be interested in taking over the development of those plugins. She was […]
I have been working as a full time freelance WordPress developer for the past few years. There have been many ups and downs and there have been many times when I considered seriously going back to be a full-time employee at a company again. Over the summer, when we moved to the Bay Area, […]
WordPress 4.9 was released last week with many new improvements. One of the new features is the ability to add a gallery in the widgets which is a very cool feature. Multiple images can be added at once and the images can be displayed in one or more columns along with the ability to select […]
I was at WordCamp Seattle a couple of weeks ago and I heard Andrea Middleton talk about contributing to WordPress in her keynote speech. It was a very inspiring talk. Anyone who heard her probably left the room inspired to contribute to the WordPress community. While I was at the WordCamp, I had conversations […]
One of the biggest questions I always get asked is about choosing WordPress themes. I come across many beginners who are new to WordPress and are learning their way through everything – themes, plugins, child themes etc. This post is about how to find a theme that works for you. There are many themes both […]
I have been using WordPress for more than 7 years and I have played around with plugins a lot. Plugins are an essential part of any WordPress site. They add functionality to your site and should be determined by the features needed for the website. There are so many plugins in WordPress that sometimes it is […]
I finally made the time to bring this site and blog out of its long slumber and hibernation. When I started working for a small web development company, I never spent time on this blog. I had so many things to write here – but I never made the time to do so. Now, as […]
WordPress menus make it very easy to add navigation to your WordPress pages. You can have multiple menus on the same page. Although images for WordPress menus are not very SEO friendly and make it difficult to edit menu items, there are times when you would like to add background images to the menu. If […]
The canvas tag is a new HTML tag which is used to draw graphics using JavaScript. You can learn more about the canvas tag and its basic usage here. Since it is a relatively new tag, it does not render in all the browsers. For those browsers which do not support the canvas tag, you […]