Ari Stathopoulos

Software Architect, Accessibility & Sustainability evangelist, Human.

How to use the customizer to customize your theme template files

13 July 2015

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 it was actually quite successful and you can see a demo of it here (skip to 1:28)

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Why we switched from WPEngine to Pagely and how we did it

04 July 2015

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 the worst (actually it’s a turn for the best if you look into the future of it, but short-term the outcome will be hard and difficult to bear).

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Improvements coming to the next version of Kirki

03 June 2015

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.

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