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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

8 years

I am a dad!

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@Pakistaninpics @historyinmemes I am dying with laughter seeing his face when she starts introducing him.

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4 years

Google: Avoid an excessive DOM size. Visual Composer: To hell with that. #WordPress (Image source: Ethan Chin)

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6 years

The best part about the WordCamp is when a few came to me and said how much my Genesis tutorials helped them. I am inspired to publish more.

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6 years

With the man that changed my life, thank you ⁦ @bgardner ⁩ for everything.

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5 years

Started watching "Anne with an E" without many expectations and now we (family members) are all hooked. A lovely story portrayed in a heart-warming manner.

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2 years

@mufaddal_vohra 16 runs more than expected. Good job KLPD.

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@srikat

4 years

Build solutions (WP plugins), share what you know by writing tutorials (memberships) and help others. You'll make money in the process.

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@srikat

3 years

Happy to announce that I've joined @gridpane as the Manager of APAC Customer Care.

GridPane

GridPane helps WordPress agencies and developers build their own self managed WordPress hosting business.

gridpane.com

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4 years

Sad and happy at the same time. Sad because we are no longer citizens of India. Happy because we got Australian citizenship. The ceremony was virtual.

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6 years

Got US business visa approved. Will be attending my first WordCamp next month. #wcus .

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@srikat

7 years

We can add a small bit of CSS for /wp-admin/widgets.php to make the widget areas in the right side remain sticky/fixed. It will greatly reduce the time and effort in having to hold widgets and drag a long distance up and down. #WordPress

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@srikat

5 years

If you are a WordPress agency trying to hire a front end developer and want to test the CSS skills during your interview, ask the candidate to style a Gravity Form. If the applicant has not paused multiple times during the process pondering the meaning of life, instant hire!

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@srikat

2 years

@SnazzyQ @jon_prosser No. You haven’t probably used quality ones from good companies like Speck and Nomad.

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@srikat

2 years

@mufaddal_vohra When does he actually score? Whenever I see, he is shivering nervously and giving catch practice to slip fielders meekly. aah, looks like that’s only overseas.

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9 months

This happened yesterday. Close to 15,000 members in the Bricks Facebook group now. Should double in a year.

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6 years

Hi ⁦ @cdils ⁩

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@srikat

6 years

Been busy for the last month researching real estate market, inspecting houses etc. Our offer for a house got accepted and we will be moving in a couple of months if everything (home loan) goes well.

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@srikat

9 months

Told my wife that I plan to charge $3500 USD for a Oxygen to Bricks site re-build. She laughed and replied, SAP charges the company she works for more than that for just changing a field label 🫤

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@srikat

2 years

Prepared a quick list of useful/interesting plugins from trusted #WordPress agencies/developers in my notes app. Not comprehensive by any means. If there is any that you use and think deserves a place in this list, do share.

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@srikat

11 months

User: I hate 3rd party stuff in WordPress like page/site builders. Me: ok, so what do you use for setting up advanced query loops, features/blocks that don't natively come with WP? User: I install 3rd party block plugins. Me:

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

10 years

I can never find out how to add a new website in Google Analytics. They need to add a big button the moment you access analytics.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

7 years

Had to work on a 10GB WordPress site locally. Took a full export w/o the Media library and it was ~350MB. Then installed @BillErickson ’s excellent “BE Media from Production” plugin to have all the media URLs automatically point to the live site.

GitHub - billerickson/BE-Media-from-Production: Uses local media when it's available, and uses the...

Uses local media when it's available, and uses the production server for rest. - billerickson/BE-Media-from-Production

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@srikat

7 months

Possible reasons (my educated guesses) for Cwicly's abrupt discontinuation, given the vague blame on influencers - in no particular order: 1. No longer possible to include ACF Pro. 2. Not as widely adopted as they would have hoped/liked. Not enough recurring revenue to justify

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2 years

Our 6 yo fractured her hand due to falling from monkey bars. Was fast tracked into emergency last evening. Stayed overnight in the hospital, surgery today afternoon. She should be ok. Total hospital bill is going to be $0.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

4 years

Feels good to be recognized for my contributions. #OxygenBuilder

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

9 months

The amount of ignorance about WordPress page builders is astounding. Some folks are still living in the 2012s and imagine crappy themes/plugins like Avada, SiteOrigin, WP Bakery when they hear the term "page builder". WordPress site builders like Bricks - produce lean HTML

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@srikat

3 years

Started writing tutorials on @RealOxygenApp and WordPress at in June 2018. 770 tutorials (some crazy in-depth ones) till date. That's 0.8 a day over 949 business days. I know of no other site in this space that is as prolific.

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@srikat

9 months

As a professional (designer/developer/agency/freelancer) please do NOT follow this and do the exact opposite. Your client trusts you with their hard-earned money. It should be your ethical responsibility to build sites with quality tools, processes and workflows that, as

Supa Mike

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Msg for WP dev/designers: Your clients don't give a shit which PageBuilder you use for their website, and neither do 99% of their website visitors. Nobody is going to check the page source to see what plugins you used. Don't pretend it matters, nobody, in the real world, cares!

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@srikat

7 years

My co-worker.

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@srikat

7 years

I started blogging on my site on Jul 9, 2013 and have since published 1320 tutorials till date. That is a little more than 1 a day for the last 4 years, 5 months and 15 days (excluding weekends and public holidays).

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@srikat

6 years

It was loud and I could barely understand a word of what the singers were singing but was fun seeing everyone enjoying. It was my first party.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

1 year

Thank you CPT UI for your service all these years. You may now retire.

ACF | ACF 6.1 Release – Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Registration, Improved Field Type Selection...

Advanced Custom Fields version 6.1 is now available! 🚀🎉 ACF 6.1 elevates the plugin further as an essential part of making WordPress a true content

www.advancedcustomfields.com

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@srikat

3 years

"PHP is used by 78.1% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know." and yet I could not find a single comprehensive course that is up-to-date free or paid until I found this on YouTube by @GioDev8 : Amazing effort! Let's do it.

Learn PHP The Right Way - Full PHP Tutorial For Beginners & Advanced

Hello & welcome to my first course "Learn PHP The Right Way". In this course, you will learn PHP from beginners level all the way to advanced. The "right way...

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

2 years

Switched from Notion to @Logseq for journalling, information management, storing code snippets and note-taking. I love a local bullet outliner that has a daily-note first approach. Using iCloud Drive for sync between Mac and iPhone with backups to private GitHub repo and Koofr.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

6 years

Pleased to announce the launch of collaborative code snippets where anyone in the #GenesisWP community can contribute. Register an account, log in and start adding your code collection.

Wikis Archive - Genesis Community

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@srikat

7 months

This is the biggest shock I’ve had in the recent past! Had to check if the date was 1st April. I hope Cwicly undos their decision.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

5 months

@alter_jamie Aasmaan mein taradau Laakhon taare hain taradau

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

6 years

With ⁦ @BillErickson ⁩.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

7 years

“Your membership for DesktopServer Premium is expiring within 30 days. It is time to renew and save 25% off of the original price.” Nope.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

2 years

Some resources to learn PHP: PHP For Beginners by @jeffrey_way : 3+ Hour Crash Course by @traversymedia : by @giodev8

Programming PHP, 4th Edition

www.oreilly.com

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

10 months

My reply to a question on why Bricks over Oxygen in Facebook:

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

2 years

For intermediate developers these are good options to consider for building WordPress websites in no particular order: - Bricks - Cwicly - Pinegrow - GeneratePress + GenerateBlocks I've embraced Bricks - a visual builder like Oxygen + a ton of hooks & filters like Genesis.

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@srikat

8 months

Spent the afternoon making a WooCommerce account dashboard in Bricks. I believe @WPTutz is making a video on the same.

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@srikat

6 months

@RjeyTech Isn’t the slow refresh rate bothering you?

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

6 months

Been reading up on WordPress REST API. Tutorial coming up on showing a mini events calendar using WP-API.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

5 years

My Apple Watch told me to move. So I stood up, went to the fridge, took out a pizza slice, heated it in microwave and ate it. Does it count? 😬

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@srikat

8 years

2016 Income Report: Membership: $143,912 Affiliate: $840.09 Total: 144,752.09 USD Haven't added the income from freelancing and PT job.

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@srikat

3 years

Nailed it.

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@srikat

7 months

Hostinger is the new Awful Motive.

Affiliate Plugin in Must-Use plugin section

[This thread is closed.] Hi! I noticed there is this “Affiliate Plugin” shows up under the “Must-Use” plugin section, but I…

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

2 years

Share your knowledge by writing tutorials. Charge for some. Make money. From :

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@srikat

8 years

Who loves daddy? Me!

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@srikat

10 years

Me: You can have only 5. Daughter: 6? Me: No. Daughter: can I start counting from 0?

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@srikat

8 months

Just for fun...

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

6 years

Our little one playing with ⁦ @onehappystudio ⁩.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

5 months

#ACSS tip # CSS-based responsive masonry layouts Here are sample utility classes to make an unordered list container have 4 columns to begin with and automatically responsive with the cards inside appearing in a masonry layout (flowing vertically) using CSS columns: list--none

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

4 years

Do not underestimate the number of buyers you may have for your service/product. I built a plugin last weekend to save the number of clicks and make it easier for me when using a theme. Put it for sale and thought I'll probably have 3 or 4 buyers. 23 bought it so far.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

1 year

@fklux Gutenberg as a site builder is at least 4 years behind the likes of Bricks. By the time Gut catches up, Bricks and others would have advanced even more. I stay away from Elementor.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

9 years

Stopped looking for support jobs after converting my Genesis & WP tutorials site into a membership. TY, my users. http://t.co/hgbOCoX7zn

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

4 years

What a great news to wake up to! Americans managed to get rid of the Trump virus.

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@srikat

7 months

@GabbbarSingh If that is the definition of quality of life, you haven’t experienced enough of it, I am afraid.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

2 years

@shrutibalasa @VaibhavSisinty Disagree. One should continually strive for the betterment of self and the immediate family members. When there’s better quality air, roads and government elsewhere, go and live there. It doesn’t make you any less Indian. There are many things expats miss. It’s a tough balance.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

6 years

Had a terrific time going around Perth with Lee ( @seothemeswp ) and his bubbly fiancé.

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@srikat

7 years

“Before you ask a #GenesisWP question, ask how you would do it in #WordPress .” - Ancient Chinese Proverb.

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@srikat

7 months

Always amazed by the querying capabilities of Bricks. Finished working on outputting events grouped by years within months based on event date custom field value. Uses 2 custom query types for years and months and the last one for posts pulls the two parent loop objects in the

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@srikat

10 months

yep, it's almost as if they never actually developed a site from a design..

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

7 years

I think I can call myself a developer now. Edited Twitter profile from “WordPress implementor” to “WordPress developer”.

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@srikat

10 months

Looking at the number of tutorials I wrote... My current tutorial count on Bricks and WP in BricksLabs, is 286. Before that, wrote 801 on Oxygen and WP at and 1496 on Genesis and WP at . I remember my post

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

6 years

Wish you all a happy Christmas! It’s already the 25th here in Australia.

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@srikat

9 months

My current WordPress toolbox (the main ones): - Bricks theme with ACSS & Frames, Advanced Themer and BricksExtras - ACF Pro or Meta Box - WS Form - Perfmatters - SEOPress Pro - WP Grid Builder - All-in-One WP Migration with its URL and Unlimited extensions - Admin Site

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

1 year

Completed 1 year anniversary of BricksLabs yesterday. Published 270 tutorials. The net income is not groundbreaking but the drive to share what I learn keeps me going. Bricks is the best WordPress visual site builder you probably haven't heard of/used.

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@srikat

8 years

Didn't notice this milestone pass by, but I crossed 1000 tuts in my site. The num of published posts atm is 1076.

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@srikat

3 years

The beast has been summoned! Need to score 2 or 3 more website projects to get over the guilt of spending on a want vs need.

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@srikat

7 years

Happy to learn that @studiopress has enabled another developer ( @seothemeswp ) to quit his day job and live the online dream. #GenesisWP FTW

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@srikat

7 years

Not sure I get the “Built with ❤️(love)” in website footers. If that’s not there, does it mean sites are built with rage and hate?

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@srikat

4 years

Partnering with a dev was a good idea. Our little plugin business has done decent amount of sales.

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@srikat

4 months

The joy that building websites with Bricks brings is unmatched. What an amazing website builder! The rich ecosystem is like cherry on the top.

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@srikat

6 years

Reached home 3 hours ago around lunch time. Thanks to @wpengine for inviting me to the WordCamp US. It was great meeting so many members of the Genesis community.

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6 years

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@srikat

8 years

via @robeylawrence

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@srikat

4 years

These modals that appear after deactivating some WordPress plugins are quite a nuisance.

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

10 months

@pootlepress 1. It is a good idea to use the child theme as the active theme. 2. To set global styles, you create a theme style and apply it to the entire website from within the Bricks editor. 3. “it is hard to learn (Bricks)” ← You probably wanted to say "it is hard to use Bricks w/o

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@srikat

6 months

Tutorial coming up on setting up a floating bottom div that slides up into view when scrolling down in Bricks, inspired by .

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@srikat

8 years

Today's Joke. "There is not a plugin that we are aware of that creates a full backup of the Wordpress installation." - HostGator support.

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@srikat

9 months

There's a new code snippets WordPress plugin in the town from the folks behind Fluent Forms, FluentSnippets. Being the old-fashioned guy I am, I am sticking with using a child theme. When FluentSnippets has a cloud feature, perhaps I'll consider it.

FluentSnippets - The High-Performance Code Snippets Plugin for WP

Experience unmatched speed and security with our unique file-based code snippet plugin, designed for speed

fluentsnippets.com

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Sridhar Katakam

@srikat

7 years

At Melbourne Airport to receive parents. Will have the best home-made food for the next 2 weeks.

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@srikat

7 months

All-in-One WP Migration is banned on Kinsta.

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@srikat

5 months

The last iPad I had was a iPad Pro from 2018. Got myself a new 13” M4 iPad Pro with 256GB storage. Some initial thoughts: - It does not look big or unwieldy. I am used to a 16” MBP and a 34” monitor. - Screen is nice and crisp. I do not know how anyone can put up with a

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@srikat

2 years

Wish you all a happy new year! It’s 12 am on 1 Jan 2023 here in Melbourne, Australia right now.

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@srikat

2 years

Looking for a designer or a design company that sells a collection of good quality webpage elements/sections/templates/components/blocks with unlimited usage rights incl. commercial. Any leads?

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@srikat

2 years

@williamsba You got Balkhied.

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@srikat

2 years

@Mrwhosetheboss Ads? What are they? :) I use @AdGuard .

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@srikat

3 years

Glad I am doing this JavaScript course. 2 days ago me did not know how to read this code correctly.

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@srikat

9 months

Spent the day watching a couple of videos on ACSS and playing with it and Frames. I am slowly beginning to understand what the fuss is about.. Took some notes.

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@srikat

6 years

To help ease child theme updates, going forward, all my tutorials will be advocating the use of a custom functionality plugin for making Genesis theme customisations - where possible.

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@srikat

3 years

Started a new site (well, more like a single page) having resources for WordPress developers.

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@srikat

2 years

mm, let's see.. Money?

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@srikat

2 years

Isn't it odd that 80% of the web is powered by PHP and yet 80% of tech Twitter discussions, YouTube videos and tutorials/articles on the net are on JS or some flavor of JS?

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@srikat

10 months

How big is the Bricks ecosystem? This big: (screenshot) Work in progress..

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@srikat

8 years

When @cdils sends you a Linkedin add request..

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