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(Dutch) Vaartocht door Amsterdamse grachten

Al een paar keer heb ik het idee gehad om met WordPress mensen door de grachten van Amsterdam te varen. Het was iets wat ik graag 27 Mei tijdens de 10 jarig bestaan van WordPress had willen doen maar dit had betekent dat er geld voor moest worden gevraagd. Tevens leek het weer ook niet […]

Collaboration between universities and open source projects

This year I’m going to help out with Google Summer of Code (GSoC) within WordPress. GSoC is an event where students work the whole summer on an open source project. This is pretty cool since students spent a lot of time on a project and it can result in something cool. This year I’m really […]

Recent open source projects I worked on

The last few months I have been working on a few open source projects. It’s something I enjoy to do and also need to do for myself. Like today I have been working on making WordPress MU Domain Mapping working when the WordPress code is in a subdirectory. This is the case when you use WordPress […]

How my previous jobs has made me a better person

History When I graduated in July 2010 I first wanted to do some experience at a company. I did my internship at theFactor.e and it made sense to also start working there. It was an awesome time and it’s a great company to work at. In my job as iOS developer I just struggled to much […]

How WordCamp Europe is organized is a joke

The current way how WordCamp Europe is organized is a joke to me. It was claimed by a group of people without even checking who else wanted to organize it. That is something that irritates me since such kind of WordCamp should be elected somehow. It isn’t a small event and it can be misused for […]

First Meetup Serbia

First meetup Serbia is a fact. Yesterday we had an awesome start and it was great to see how many people came to the office of ManageWP. There were lots of questions and some nice discussions because of that. It is a shame that my Serbian is not that good yet and that I didn’t […]

Going to experiment with blogging

It’s always a pain to blog about something where you want to talk pages long about something and then you don’t blog at all. So I decided to do some short paragraph blogging with a maximum of 10 paragraphs. I’m not going to say that it always will happen because some things like WordSesh need […]

Cropping Post Thumbnails from Top instead of Center in WordPress

Last week someone I know asked me how to do always a top center crop on thumbnails and I knew it was possible because of WP_Image_Editor. But you always wondered what it was before 3.5 and it always seemed you needed to hack code till I founded a post from George Stephanis. His post shows that […]

How to load a custom WP_Image_Editor

In our previous post about the class WP_Image_Editor we only talked about some global information. Today this post is going to handle how to load a custom image editor. It isn’t that straight forward you would expected and the reason is that the the code in core is lazy loaded. So when you call wp_get_image_editor() the […]

WP_Image_Editor

In WordPress 3.5, GD has been abstracted out of core’s image manipulation functions and has been called WP_Image_Editor. Because of that WordPress also has support for Imagick and that is the default choose. It’s giving better image quality to those who have it available on their host. This is particularly important if you’re using images with […]

Different CSS class for wp_nav_menu in the menu widget

When playing with the awesome theme Responsive I notice the menu in widget was broken because it was styling on the CSS class ‘menu’. Since every menu has this class the widgets also get the main menu styling. You can fix this in the child theme by removing all styling but that seems hard to day. […]

Using code to register a widget to a sidebar

In almost every theme you see a check if dynamic_sidebar() did returned false then show HTML inside the if statement. See the sidebar.php of Twenty Eleven. Twenty Twelve and Twenty thirteen don’t do this anymore. This is ugly in two ways. The first one is that this kind of logic shouldn’t be in the template files. It […]