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Sort users by numeric value in Users Screen

By default you can sort users in Users Screen by username, name, email and role. What if we wanted to sort users based on numeric value? Value can be for example age or expire date. First we’d need to save numeric info in *_usermeta table. There are handy functions like add_user_meta and update_user_meta for doing …

Update on support lengths

Most of my themes and plugins have three price options. All price options will create one year license.  It means that you’ll get automatic updates for one year. But different price options have different license count for sites and support lengths. Basic: License for 1 site + support for 6 months. Standard: License for 2-4 sites …

48 hours theme challenge

I’m kind of sick and tired of all the hassle around theme directory and all the bullshit Theme Review Team have to take. Not even sure are they called Theme Review Team anymore. Anyways I salute all the volunteers who have been reviewing themes. But I mostly admire the team admins who make the decisions. …

Learning accessibility in WordPress themes

I was honoured to write guest post in Post Status about accessibility in WordPress themes. Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I’ll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible …

Toivo updated to version 1.0.5

Toivo was update to version May 6, 2015. There was XSS vulnerability in genericons example.html file, which is now removed. You can read more about in WPTavern blog or Sucuri security blog. Another update was support for toggling sub menus in Primary menu. I need to take another look into this but because of the security …

Toivo updated to version 1.0.4

Toivo Lite theme was approved in WordPress.org repo and there were couple of minor issues to fix. These same issues was updated in Toivo theme at April 28, 2015. Change footer text colors for passing #a11y tests. Change default header image color opacity to 70 and add filters around it. Add filter around footer image …

Toivo updated to version 1.0.3

Toivo was updated to version 1.0.3 at April 24, 2015. This wasn’t big update but it adds metabox for replacing Header Callout text and description in singular views. You can see the result in demo site. It’s a pretty nice feature but I though about it several days does it fit in the theme design. …

Toivo updated to version 1.0.2

Toivo was updated to version 1.0.2 in April 19, 2015. Here are the details. Tweak: Minify styles and scripts for faster loading times. Fix: Update version number in the updater function. Fix: Correct text domain and padding in testimonial archive page. Update .pot file. Change Foxnet to Foxland in the Footer. That reflects better this …

Background story for Toivo Lite version

Few days ago I published theme called Toivo. It got really good feedback about it but also some disappointments. It was time for another experiment and publish Lite version of it. It’s no secret that some themes are doing pretty well up selling their Lite version in WordPress.org. I was curious why WordPress.org popular list have those themes …