It’s 2026 and I made myself a promise that I will blog more about technical web things. Nothing new because I do this every year, but this year I will also make a YouTube video for each article. This is the first “artico-video” in the series. Yes, I just invented that word.
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The unnecessary “Pluginophobia” in WordPress
Once a year, a redundant topic reappears on Twitter within the WordPress Community, which sparks a weird fear of using too many plugins as add-ons.
You will hear people trying to joke about the number of plugins some websites have. Or they will post memes about site makers who look into performance improvements after they’ve finished with their website structure.
A modern web stack for WordPress plugins or themes in 2024.
I think the deepest way of learning something is by attempting to write about it or to teach others and since I was out-of-date with this subject I’ve decided to do a freshup about what a WordPress plugin or theme should contain in its development repository.
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Introducing Gridable — The Missing Grid Content Editor
This article is all about Gridable — the missing grid content editor which we hope that will stand as the next WordPress inline grid editor.
In the last couple of months we (Pixelgrade crew and I) invested a lot of time and energy to make it happen, so hopefully, you will give it a try and share your thoughts on this one.
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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 the same WordPress doesn’t offer a clear way to tell us “What plugins can I use with this theme?“
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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 value they bring, and honestly, I want to pitch my colleagues at PixelGrade that we should take advantage of automatic tests. We want to deliver flawless WordPress products from top to toe.
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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 important to be in a good relationship with Google’s indexing algorithms.
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I would like to talk about a little experience I had working with WordPress’s Settings API,
Check the WordPress version with a Chrome Extension
When you work with WordPress, you get to see and examine tones of WordPress themes.
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