Ari Stathopoulos
WordPress Developer, Human.
Why we switched from WPEngine to Pagely and how we did it
While I was in WordCamp Europe last weekend I met a lot of the WPEngine staff, we talked, we laughed, I think they’re a great bunch of people! However, while I was there the whole political & economic status of my home country - Greece - took a turn for...
How to remove the themes changer from the WordPress Customizer
The WordPress Customizer is not just for themes, it can also be used for plugins. I’ve seen for example a brilliant newsletters plugin that used the customizer for composing the actual emails, and the implementation was awesome. In cases like that, you may want to remove the WordPress Themes switcher...
How to change the width of the customizer
Depending on your use-case, you may want to change the width of your customizer, thus having more real-estate to handle your custom controls and content. You can do that by adding some custom CSS.
How to add a logo to the WordPress Customizer
Depending on your use-case, you may want to add a logo on the top pf the customizer, replacing the “preview” notice. Unfortunately there is no filter available yet to do that, but you can still do it using some simple jQuery.
Improvements coming to the next version of Kirki
Kirki started a couple years ago as a way to simplify the use of the customizer and make it easier for people to add custom controls to their themes without having to reinvent the wheel every time they needed to.
Writing dynamic CSS to file
Building WordPress themes we sometimes add options that users can edit and change to completely customize their themes.
Kirki_Color: A PHP Color Calculations class
Yesterday I started working on a new series of posts about manipulating color in WordPress and PHP in general.
Sanitizing a hex color value in PHP
Working with WordPress themes it’s not unusual to have to manipulate colors is PHP. This is the first of a series of posts on working with color in WordPress and PHP in general.