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LUBUS Highlights November 2023

Venturing Into Consulting We have primarily focused on providing solutions to individuals and businesses by training our teams and building solutions for clients. However, we have recently had the opportunity to work with mid to enterprise-level clients, who have approached us for WordPress consulting services. We have onboarded a few clients to start this new offering and are finding it to be an interesting and valuable learning experience. We plan to share more insights on this soon. Bulk Messaging Platform Aside from working with WordPress, we also enjoy using Laravel, and we recently had the opportunity to help an SME…

Experimental Go To Top Plugin For WordPress

We have been strongly advocating leveraging WordPress packages to build plugins and apps. From using them on client projects to side projects we have embraced them as much as possible. We even shared our thoughts on the same at WordCamp Mumbai. As part of constant learning and discovery, we encourage our team to build things they want to. A few months back we were working with one of our client and they had this hard requirement of having a go-to top-button plugin with flexible customization. We vetted a few plugins and thought it was a good opportunity to build something…

LUBUS Highlights October 2023

This month, the team continued working on things they believed in and built a few side projects to fulfil our internal needs. Tatva We announced project Tatva. It is a custom Web Components library that we are building with few commonly used elements. We polished and pushed one of the elements called ‘Ping’, which allows the addition of a pulse animation element in HTML content with a custom element tag. We are working on a few more and look to make them public soon so stay tuned. WordCamp Mumbai A few of the folks from the team attended WordCamp Mumbai…

lubus highlights september 2023

LUBUS Highlights September 2023

This month, we continued our love for working on side projects to learn and build. We made some progress on several internal projects and started some new ones. So here are some of the key highlights for the more are: WordPress Playground Blueprint Builder We continued our exploration further on WordPress playground after building chrome extension and playground generator UI we have been exploring blueprint API. Blueprint API allows more control over playground setup and tailoring it as needed. Blueprint is a JSON string with instructions on setting up WordPress. We have been exploring creating a UI builder to ease…

Gymie maintenance Release v1.0.2 / v1.0.3

In 2018 we opensourced “Gymie“, our small side project which started as small solution to the local gyms. This year we are focusing on our “Laravel” and “Gymie” offering. We have received a positive response from people using the application. All the feedback and suggestions gives us better clarity about the roadmap. Latest maintenance release(s) iron outs bugs and cleanup. Next, work is in progress for v1.1.2 to bring some enhancements, code refactoring & cleanup. Personally, we are not happy with current implementation and we have started working on v2.0 release to make core app stable. Detailed scope and features…

WordPress Gutenberg Theme Support

With Gutenberg WordPress allow themes to enable support for styling aspect. Theme can define fontsizes, colors and several optional opt-in features. Theme Support plugin enables configuring some on the support feature quickly via UI interface. Following are the current available suport options via plugin. Manage fontsizes, diable custom user fontsize Manage color palette, disable custom color picker Block Editor (Gutenberg) width Enable responsive embeds Enable default block styles Dummynator is available for download on WordPress plugin repo – https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-support Want to dive into the code and explore how it works? The code is open sourced on GitHub – https://github.com/lubusIN/wp-theme-support Stay…

Dummynator

Dummynator – Insert Blocks With Dummy Content To Gutenberg

Dummynator, a simple plugin that allows you to add paragraph & list block with random content to Gutenberg. Recently working with Gutenberg we had to add random content to few pages & our laziness lead us to this plugin.  It was the perfect opportunity for us to use the Gutenberg plugin & sidebar API. Currently, the plugin provides few options & content type but yes we plan to add more options soon. Checkout Dummynator in action below. Want to play around with “Dummynator”, head over to our Gutenberg playground – https://gutenberg.lubus.in/ Dummynator is available for download on WordPress plugin repo – https://wordpress.org/plugins/dummynator Want to dive…

Gymie - Laravel Based Application

Gymie, A Laravel Based Gym Management System Is Now Open Source

Today we are happy to open source Gymie, a Laravel based gym and club management system we built some time back. It has an interesting backstory to share how it came to life. We had never planned to actually build it, rather it started as a side project. We had an intern we had been mentoring and to help him understand and learn Laravel better we picked it as a real-life case study to work on. It was based on our experience with local gym management how they have been handling things. With regular brainstorming session and development, it started taking shape…

Sublime Atom Snippets For WordPress Custom Meta Boxes

Sublime & Atom Snippets For WordPress Custom Meta Boxes

We at LUBUS love crafting custom WordPress solutions and try to use plugins only when it’s genuinely needed. Every other WordPress project we work on somehow requires “custom meta fields”. Though we have many plugins available we love to use non-plugin solution & “Custom Meta Boxes (CMB)” by Human Made is the perfect solution which always works for us and lately, we have been contributing to it as well. It’s so much part of our work nowadays that we find ourselves spending a lot of time on its wiki for various code & info. As “Sublime Text” is our choice of editor, we…

Display Upcoming WordCamp’s On WordPress Post Or Page

A couple of months back we released WordPress plugin to display upcoming WordCamp’s on the wp-admin dashboard, you can read about it here for more details. Post that we have been receiving the request from many users & developers to add in support for the shortcode. We have been planning to add the support for shortcode & Visual Composer so that details can be easily displayed at different places, not just wp-admin dashboard. Finally, with the release of v0.6, you can use the shortcode to display WordCamps anywhere or Visual Composer widget if you use Visual Composer page builder. Currently, shortcode doesn’t have any…