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WordCamp Russia 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
If you have ever planned a WordCamp or any other similar event, you know that it’s a lot of hard work – speakers wrangling, volunteers, venue, food, drinks, video, photos and everything else. And now ...
Expound for WordPress.com 23 Aug 2013 | 10:24 am
The magazine-style theme Expound has just been released for WordPress.com users. Some slight changes and updates will be pushed back to the self-hosted version in the coming weeks. Click here to comm...
WordPress Speed and Performance Session from WordCamp Russia 21 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
I gave this talk in a couple of weeks ago at the very first WordCamp Russia 2013 which was a big success (will publish a recap separately). It covers most of the basics: what is site speed and why it...
WordCamp Russia is in less than a week! 6 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
I first thought of making a WordCamp in Russia a little over three years ago, when I was running a web development shop in Moscow. I had filled out my application form and was a single click away from...
get_template_fart() or Things I Wish I Had Known Before Developing a WordPress Theme 1 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
I gave this talk at WordCamp San Francisco 2013. I was so nervous that I said get_template_fart() instead of get_template_part() at around 2:43. Slides and reference links right here. Let me know wha...
WordCamp San Francisco 2013 Recap 30 Jul 2013 | 03:23 am
This was my second WordCamp San Francisco, and I absolutely loved it. I haven’t attended too much of the sessions, most notably: Mark Jaquith on deploying, code UX by Nikolay Bachiyski, funny theme st...
Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco 2013 3 Jul 2013 | 10:46 am
I’m speaking about theme development at WordCamp San Francisco this year. I would love to tell you more about it, but I should probably go work on my slides. Click here to comment More from Konstant...
Expound: A Free Magazine Theme for WordPress 25 Jun 2013 | 05:48 pm
Meet Expound — a free magazine theme for WordPress. Freshly baked, straight out of the oven, filled with _s goodness, a responsive layout, wicked support for featured posts and more! Expound was init...
Don’t do_shortcode 10 Jun 2013 | 07:02 pm
Shortcodes are pretty cool, and the do_shortcode function is pretty neat as it can parse and execute shortcode callbacks from arbitrary strings, but that function invokes a fairly large regex every ti...
WordPress Turns 10! 27 May 2013 | 12:32 pm
Ten years of WordPress, wow! I started a simple tech blog as a hobby using WordPress 2.6 over five years ago. Today I work on some of the largest WordPress instances in the world, I write plugins and ...
