Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer and Cloud Consultant

Since last week you may have noticed something different about the website. Maybe it seems to load quicker, or it looks a tiny bit different, or perhaps you've noticed that the footer is much slimmer. The reason is: KidsIL has once again been transformed! After 5 years (felt longer) of...

Since I'm on vacation, this will be a short article (I haven't forgotten about the Meteor tutorials, they're coming!). For now, let me introduce to you ImageDock, an Image Gallery Plugin for WordPress, with a cool Dock effect (similar to OSX). Check it out in action: SlideNSwap Gallery WordPress Plugin...

I've been working on a WordPress plugin lately, and one thing I've been trying to do is to create a file download out of some plugin settings (i.e. text data, json file). In general in order to do that via PHP, you have to send the right headers: 1 2...

If you're developing Themes/Plugins and want to update them on various websites you own/manage, it can be quite a hassle. One way would be to use WP Remote and bulk update all your plugins and themes. This method assumes that all your plugins are on Wordpress.org, where most Plugins/Themes are....

Now that the holidays are over, it's time to build new things. If we want to develop our visual creativity, and create a new Theme for WordPress, there are a few tasks that one has to do on every theme. There's adding functions.php, customized header and footer files, perhaps supporting...

This week I've released a new plugin for WordPress called SlideNSwap Gallery. The plugin itself is pretty simple, it lets you create image galleries that have the effect shown in this video (kind of like the Ken Burns effect): SlideNSwap Gallery WordPress Plugin demo from Asaf Zamir on Vimeo. The...

In a custom plugin I made, I had to add a custom media upload button in order to make sure only a single Video file is can be selected. After doing some research, I discovered the handy & pretty undocumented component: wp.media Just to make sure we’re on the same...

How long does it take you to install a new WordPress website? Do you have a collection of plugins you constantly use for every WordPress website you install? Does the same go for themes? What about some dummy data? Do you have to add some posts and pages every time?...

For every developer building websites for small to medium sized businesses, there’s the classic dilemma of hosting: Should I refer the client to a hosting company? Should I help them out with hosting but potentially leave them stranded once the project is done? Should I have my own hosting solution,...