May 26, 2023 — We were told to learn Javascript, deeply… But if you are anything like me, still more comfortable in the backend, here are some tips on surviving in this strange new block-based word.

Good people who learnt JS deeply before us have created some nice tools that we can use from the comfort of our PHP, without venturing (much) into the realm of package managers, build processes, compilers, frontend frameworks and other newfangled creatures. And still create beautiful and functional things.

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January 23, 2018 — One of the most beautiful and powerful features of WordPress is its flexibility and extensibility – everybody can make WordPress to fit their needs.

But with great power comes great responsibility of doing things the right way. Any WordPress developer can tell endless horror stories of sites they took over from somebody else – modified Core, modified plugins, thousands of lines of code in functions.php, etc.

This talk introduces the main ways of extending WordPress and explain how to use them properly, with particular emphasis on WordPress hook system.

December 20, 2017 — Arunas is an experienced WordPress plugin developer. He has been working with WordPress since version 2.6.3 and has developed a number of free, premium and custom plugins. Arunas has 14 years of experience in Web development and has been teaching at Kaunas College for 8 years. He is a WordPress Core Contributor, WordPress Kaunas Meetup co-organizer, WordCamp (Lithuania, Riga, Stockholm) speaker and one of the editors of the Lithuanian WordPress translation team.

September 26, 2016 — WordPress įskiepių kūrėjas Arūnas Liuiza pasakoja, kaip patogiai ir protingai naudoti GitHub kuriant WordPress įskiepius. Pranešimą būtina pamatyti kiekvienam WordPress programuotojui.

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