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Help Grow A WordPress Presence In Karachi, Pakistan

Author

Immad Khan

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Community, Featured, News

Published

February 5, 2016

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WordPress takes up more than 25 percent of the Internet. This stat is a good representation of how the community of WordPress helped it grow bigger. Pakistan has been a bit slow in keeping up with the pace of the growing WordPress community around the globe. However, things are about to change. Few WordPress fanatics from all over Pakistan have taken up the responsibility to take WordPress in Pakistan to the next level. For this, we need your support and love. We are in Karachi and have already initiated the process of making WordPress easier for everyone. We had our […]

Crowdsourcing Project Seeks Stats On The REST API In Production

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Marie Dodson

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Featured, News

Published

February 4, 2016

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Human Made co-founder Joe Hoyle is crowdsourcing stats on the REST API in an effort to bring more awareness and to better understand the different developers and sites leveraging it. “A somewhat unknown amount of developers and sites use the REST API, but are often not vocal about it,” Hoyle told Torque. “We often hear a lot about what plugins and products make use of the REST API, but not so much about what production sites are running it.” The crowdsourcing effort comes right before the REST API meeting happening later today. These stats will provide a better understanding of […]

Free WordPress Themes: January 2016 Edition

Author

Sufyan bin Uzayr

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Themes

Published

February 4, 2016

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The first month of 2016 saw the release of many new amazing WordPress themes. However, this month, the majority of the free WordPress themes were blogging-centric, although some offered eCommerce functionality as well. In this roundup, we have listed some of the best free WordPress themes in January 2016. Free WordPress Themes: January 2016 Edition 1. Kiyoshi Kiyoshi is a unique WordPress theme meant for architecture and photography blogs. It features a dark background, showcases large featured images on the homepage and is fully responsive. Demo | Download 2. Olsen Light Olsen Light is a responsive WordPress theme meant for bloggers. […]

First Annual WorldWide Contributor’s Day A Success

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Emily Schiola

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Featured, News

Published

February 3, 2016

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January 30-31 marked the first annual Worldwide Contributor’s Day, and this month’s theme was support. The objective was to answer 20 requests on the Support Team tickets. People were encouraged to get together with WordPress users and developers in their surrounding area. The turnout was outstanding. People from all over the world came together to work on requests. WordPress full stack developer and core contributor Ahmad Awais gathered with 14 other Pakistani WordPressers to answer 164 tickets. In fact, Pakistan answered the most requests after the US. “I am a core contributor for WordPress and have been contributing to the core […]