Author: Andrei Lupu
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The art of assumption making
Don’t ask yourself what is the art of assumption making yet, just ask if you have ever seen the assumption-making as an art? Can you see it now if you take your time to think about it deeply? First time when I asked myself this question, I was like, “Well, at least the person who assumes…
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Add theme suggestions for plugins for real
This article is about my thoughts on different scenarios regarding the moment when a WordPress theme adds plugin suggestions in a clear and useful way. I think the whole WordPress community raises a strong need for a visible and clear relationship between plugins and themes. I came across situations when a theme adds a style for a certain plugin, but…
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Envato Comments Notifications – Chrome extension
While Envato doesn’t provide a reliable way to be informed when your item gets a comment, we took action and create a Chrome extension to help us with Envato comments notifications.
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Automated Testing, what can they bring
Please let me set your expectations from scratch. I really want to highlight the fact that I’m NOT an Automated Testing Guru, neither a testing-driven developer. I wrote a few tests in my “coding” life, and half of them I’ve already deleted because I’m way too embarrassed to showcase them. However, I see the added…
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1Click update language pot files with phpStorm
Let me provide you a short context about this article’s purpose. In few words, what I’d like to do is to walk-you-through the process of updating language post files in faster and automated way. But hey! not fully automated, ok? You will need to click some buttons, but that’s a piece of cake.
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Patch my site to 94/100 score on page insights
When you build a website, you want it to reach as many people as possible. The quality of your content will naturally engage more visitors and a good presence on the social media channels will help you spread the word. But most of your users will reach you through search engines — that’s why it’s…
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Run Gulp Tasks from PhpStorm
I would like to show you how I deal with gulp tasks in phpStorm where I use the “Gulp Task Runner” to execute gulp tasks.
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Error: options page not found!
I would like to talk about a little experience I had working with WordPress’s Settings API, section which I use a lot since I’m a backend developer.

