Author: Andrei Lupu

  • The art of assumption making

    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…

  • Add theme suggestions for plugins for real

    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…

  • Envato Comments Notifications – Chrome extension

    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.

  • Automated Testing, what can they bring
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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…

  • 1Click update language pot files with phpStorm
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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.

  • Losing my Phone—the best thing before WordCamp Europe 2016
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    Losing my Phone—the best thing before WordCamp Europe 2016

    I have attended to WordCamp Europe 2016 with the entire PixelGrade crew. In my scenario, I must confess I lived an amazing experience. My mind is full of a bunch of things I’ve learned, things I figured out I was doing wrong or things where I may be pretty good at.

  • Patch my site to 94/100 score on page insights
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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…

  • Custom Body Class plugin for WordPress
  • Run Gulp Tasks from PhpStorm
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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.

  • Error: options page not found!
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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.