Silkalns (@silkalns) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Frontend designer and developer who started developing WordPress themes in early 2013. I have worked with WordPress based websites for several years until recently decided to learn how to code and here are some of my latest WP themes and solutions.

I will try to keep this page updated with my progress in web development and software development in general.
Areas of expertise
CSS, HTML, JavaScript (jQuery), PHP but still have no idea about MySQL but I am getting there. You can follow me on Twitter

WordPress Origin Story

I started using WordPress with version 2.5 when it was all about blogging and nothing more. It was very limited but I pushed it hard with various content websites and most of them were made to manipulate Google SERPS. It went well but slowly I realized that it is not sustainable business which is hard to manage if you are not developer yourself because I had to spend hundreds and sometimes even thousands of dollars for a tiny tweaks that could be easily done if I would know a basic HTML/CSS/PHP.

Soon afterwards I quit this venture and started blogging about technology and again it went incredibly well and my blog got featured on all major Tech News sites such as Techcrunch, Engadget, The Verge, CNET and other. And I did get on their front page several times but it was boring yet very profitable venture. The main problem was that I wasn’t contributing or building anything, I just wrote about iPhones, iPads and other shiny hardware.

I love building things that’s why I switched to software development. I am now in the right place and i am building things. For now it is all about WordPress but you never know where I will end up one day. Feel free to follow my journey!

Member Since: February 10th, 2013
Location: Jūrmala, Latvia
Website: colorlib.com
GitHub: puikinsh
Job Title: Scientist
Employer: Divilab
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Contribution History

Plugin Developer
Theme Developer

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Created ticket #216807 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Activello – 1.4.9
2 months ago
Created ticket #216607 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Activello – 1.4.8
2 months ago
Created ticket #216169 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Travelify – 3.0.9
2 months ago
Created ticket #216143 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Illdy – 2.1.10
2 months ago
Committed [3289320] to Plugins SVN:
Update readme.txt for version 2.1.4
2 months ago
Committed [3289316] to Plugins SVN:
Release version 2.1.4: Fixed demo content import functionality, PHP ...
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Captions content changed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The issue is now fixed in the recent update. Please update the plugin and report…
2 months ago
Committed [3289235] to Plugins SVN:
Updated release date for version 3.3.7 in changelog
2 months ago
Committed [3289234] to Plugins SVN:
Release 3.3.7 - Fixed text domain loading issues and improved HTML ...
2 months ago
Created ticket #216062 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Activello – 1.4.7
2 months ago
Created ticket #216041 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Activello – 1.4.6
2 months ago
Committed [3286066] to Plugins SVN:
Updated readme.txt with minimum requirements set to WordPress 5.6
2 months ago
Committed [3286064] to Plugins SVN:
Updated readme.txt with minor changes
2 months ago
Committed [3286017] to Plugins SVN:
Update Stable tag to 3.3.6 and Tested up to 6.8
2 months ago
Committed [3285452] to Plugins SVN:
Version 3.3.6: Fixed XSS vulnerability in caption and title handling
2 months ago
Created ticket #215316 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Shapely – 1.2.19
2 months ago
Created ticket #215258 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Shapely – 1.2.18
2 months ago
Committed [3284739] to Plugins SVN:
Version 1.2.10: Fixed demo content import functionality and contact ...
2 months ago
Created ticket #214008 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Shapely – 1.2.17
3 months ago
Created ticket #213627 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Shapely – 1.2.16
3 months ago
Committed [3275622] to Plugins SVN:
Updated readme.txt to limit tags to exactly 5 by removing parallax and ...
3 months ago
Committed [3275615] to Plugins SVN:
Fixed readme.txt to address WordPress.org plugin repository warnings
3 months ago
Committed [3275600] to Plugins SVN:
Updated to version 1.2.9 - Fixed social widget icons for Twitter/X ...
3 months ago
Created ticket #212403 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Sparkling – 2.4.10
3 months ago
Committed [2969435] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969302] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969301] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969300] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969299] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969298] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969295] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969294] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969293] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969292] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969290] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969289] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969288] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969287] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969286] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969285] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969283] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969282] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969281] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969280] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969279] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969278] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Committed [2969276] to Plugins SVN:
Security and maintenance update
2 years ago
Posted a reply to [Discontinued] Why actually?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for all the work you put into this project! I liked it a…
3 years ago
Created a topic, Still works, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As of the time of writing, this plugin hasn't been upd…
3 years ago
Posted a reply to Amazing Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you so much for your amazing feedback! You are right! We don’t have any…
3 years ago