Ari Stathopoulos
WordPress Developer, Human.
The future of Kirki - Planning v4.0
This year Kirki got 5 years old and broke the 2 million downloads barrier. It was a big year with a lot of improvements in all areas of the plugin. I wrote a lot of code, replaced a big part of our old codebase and there were major refactors across...
Making Links Accessible Using Contrast
Accessibility is one of the hardest things to accomplish on a site. One of the confusing things when trying to make a website accessible, is choosing the right color for your links.
Introducing the inserter plugin
Last week I released a new plugin on wordpress.org called Inserter. The name seemed appropriate, and you’ll realize why as I explain below what it does.
Automating CSS Output & postMessage scripts with Kirki (Part 2)
Read Part 1: Automating CSS Output & postMessage scripts with Kirki In the previous part of this series we saw a comparison of using the WordPress Customizer API and the Kirki shorter syntax to take care of CSS outputs & postMessage scripts generation.
Automating CSS Output & postMessage scripts with Kirki (Part 1)
Read Part 2: Automating CSS Output & postMessage scripts with Kirki This will be the first of a series of posts on how to use one of my favorite features of the Kirki Plugin: Its ability to automate the CSS output and the generation of postMessage scripts for the Wordpress...
Kirki 3.0 on the way
TL;DR: Separated features as “modules”, separated controls from the API, re-introduced Select2 in place of selectize. Needs testing, release is not imminent.
Themes Acquisition from WPSatchel
The past
Addictions
We all have our addictions. It’s part of our human nature…
Greece the EU and a couple of personal points
A lot has been said and written about Greece and the situation here these past few months… This is just my own, personal view (however limited that may be). This is not like my usual developer-related posts, but it’s just some things that have been bugging me for quite some...
How to use the customizer to customize your theme template files
A while back I was experimenting with a new concept for a theme where users would be able to customize the way their templates are structured. They would be able to select what elements they wanted active and in what order these would be. This was just an experiment but...