Meet Ameer Dagha the man behind ReviewsPK
TheDevCouple team is super excited to have Ameer Dagha with us. He’s the brain behind ReviewsPK which is a popular YouTube channel for tech, gadets and more.
Platform Improvements by Kinsta Hosting That You Should Not Miss
Quite recently, Kinsta hosting has launched some awesome platform improvements which will take their services to the next level. These include weekly automatic MySQL database optimizations, self-healing PHP, GCP Firewall and more disk space (SSD Storage) on all plans at no additional cost!
Hacktoberfest 2019 Meetup — DigitalOcean, JAMstack, & Everything Else!
We, TheDevCouple team, celebrate open source by arranging a number of interactive conferences and meetups every year. Meetups like these are opportunities for developers to meet, interact and network with the speakers and other developers. With the month of October ongoing, it was time for the yearly Hacktoberfest meetup.
WordPress 5.0, Gutenberg & Its Impact on Gravity Forms
It’s been less than a week since the most anticipated and talked about version of WordPress 5.0 got released. The core software now comes packed with an all-new writing experience called the Gutenberg Editor along with the default TwentyNineteen theme. The good news is that WordPress is embracing JavaScript, React.js which means we are heading towards modern web standards.
EasyEngine Version 4 Released! 🎉
Folks! 🙌 I’m a big fan of EasyEngine — a script to self-host your WordPress sites on DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, and more. 🤔 Over a year ago, Rahul (who runs a WP VIP agency rtCampp) suggested that EasyEgine has not been getting the contribution support it should have received from the WordPress community — being […]
Best Black Friday Deals for 2018 (+ Cyber Monday) by TheDevCouple
It’s November, the month which never disappoints you. It is filled with awesomeness for all of us. As the bunch of holidays and the mighty Black Friday & the Cyber Monday sales are here. So it’s the best time to spend less and buy more. But before you empty your pockets! I would like to draw your attention to some craziest discounts. You simply can’t resist these discounts. As these are offered by the widely trusted and renowned WordPress companies, businesses, and products.
#TheOpenDevCon 2018 — JAMstack & Hacktoberfest
This October, we arranged another conference, #TheOpenDevCon2018. It mostly revolved around JavaScript, APIs, and static Markup as well as celebrating open-source on the 5th edition of Hacktoberfest. The programme also incorporated talks and a workshop about JAMstack.
Kinsta’s New Multi-User Access Feature & We Love It!
The team at Kinsta has bounced back with a long-awaited yet a much-needed feature. Kinsta now allows you to manage a multi-user access in your hosting account. If you run a business or manage large projects then I’m sure you are very well aware of the importance of working in a multi-user environment.
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[MEETUP]: WordPress 15th Birthday #WP15 + Azure Serverless Talk
This last Saturday Ahmad and Maedah along with the WPCouple team had arranged a small meetup for celebrating WordPress 15th birthday and discuss serverless Node.js with Azure functions (for a final year project with a bunch of computer engineering students). We had a lot of fun during the meetup, this one was rather more of […]
WordPress Hosting Week 2018 🏢 💻✌️🔥
I am super excited to announce that from 16th to 20th April 2018, we are going celebrate the WordPress Hosting Week 2018 featuring all the awesome hosting partners at WPCouple.
How to Create A Pull Request on GitHub?
Pull requests are the way of contributing or collaborating on a project on GitHub. Let’s say you want to contribute to a repository on GitHub, maybe fix a bug or a typo. Since you don’t own the repository, you can’t directly make the changes. So, what you do is, you simply make a copy/fork of the repository, make changes, and create a pull request.
VS Code Power User | Course for Developers
Ahmad Awais has announced a course to help developers become Visual Studio Code Power User. If you are interested in building a better development workflow, or if you want to save five to ten hours a week by being super productive, then sign up. Become a Visual Studio Code Power Developer. 💯
WPCouple’s WordPress & JavaScript Meetup Lahore 2018
We had an incredible meetup to start 2018 with. Ahmad Awais talked about JavaScript, WordPress, and Gutenberg, shared his knowledge about web ethics and we had Ulrich Pogson all the way from Switzerland who talked about Theme Review process, team, and organizing WordCamps. It all ended with laughs, thoughts, and pizza 🍕
🎉 The Internet Websites Are Now 30% WordPress
I’m super happy to post this quick update that our beloved open source CMS script WordPress is not only 15 this year, but the web is now 30% powered by WordPress
Liquid Web Acquires iThemes — A Great End to A New Beginning!
What an incredible end of the first month of the new year! A new acquisition in the WordPress community – January 31st, 2018 – Liquid Web acquired iThemes. Not to forget here, Liquid Web is a leader in managed hosting services and a proud WPCouple partner.
Create Guten Block Toolkit: Build Custom Gutenberg Blocks
🎉 Excited to release the create-guten-block toolkit today. In this post, I am going to share what is create-guten-block (cgb), what is the motivation & philosophy behind building this dev-toolbox, and the story of how I am releasing it to the public after ~200 commits and ~90 version releases.
Best WordPress Black Friday Deals for 2017 (+ Cyber Monday) by TheDevCouple
The incredible sponsors of TheDevCouple have announced mega discounts on their products for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Grab the best BlackFriday deals for WordPress up to 72% discount. Check it out.
WordPress 4.9 Tipton Is Pretty Awesome — WPCouple Team’s Core Contributions!
Here at WPCouple, every team member contributes to the WordPress community. While Ahmad Awais is a regular WordPress core contributor, Maedah started contributing to the core in 4.8. Ashar, on the other hand, will become a core contributor in 4.9 and Saqib contributes as the General Translation editor of Urdu language for WordPress. As you can imagine we are super passionate about the WordPress software and it’s community. Since the WordPress 4.9 is going to be released in the next few hours, I figured we let you in on what to expect.
How to Create Custom WordPress Shortcodes?
While learning WordPress plugin development, you do come across the shortcodes API. As a beginner, this is something which I also found quite interesting. In this post, I will be explaining what WordPress shortcodes are and how you can utilize the shortcodes API in plugin development.
The WPCouple’s #Hacktoberfest Open Source with WordPress Meetup
Hacktoberfest 2017 event arranged by Ahmad Awais and the entire WPCouple team was our best event of this year. Ahmad taught git, open source, WordPress, and discussed DigitalOcean + GitHub. Swag (T-shirts + Stickers + Git Cheatsheets) and Pizza made the event extra-awesome!