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I’m Konstantin Kovshenin, a WordPress core contributor, ex-Automattician, public speaker and consultant, enjoying life in the rainy UK. I blog about tech, WordPress and DevOps.

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Recent Blog Posts

Removing YouTube and Vimeo Shortcodes in WordPress

Quick Tip! If you’ve been using WordPress for a long time you might still be locked in to using a video embed plugin like I was a few hours ago. Yes plugins are great, but these days it’s part of the WordPress core. So how do you get rid of those YouTube and Vimeo shortcodes? I haven’t found an easy way to do it and yes I’m still frustrated with the shortcodes concept in...

I'll be at Webrazzi Summit 2011 Istanbul

Conference after conference. I’ll be at Webrazzi Summit tomorrow (October 18th) at Point Hotel Barbaros in Istanbul. I’ve never been to the event before and I’ve actually never been to any conference in Istanbul so this is going to be a first, although hopefully the event will be all in English. The speakers list is quite impressive, with folks from Facebook, Yandex, PayPal...

I'll be at Google Developer Day 2011

I can’t believe this is the first post I’m writing here in September. I really have to do something with myself and my time management and in my defense I can only say Theme.fm is doing pretty good, but okay, this post is not about WordPress. This post is about my favorite tech conference — Google Developer Day and this year will be my third year in a row in Moscow. I’m...

Macros in WordPress, Thoughts & Experiments

Hey there, been a while eh? I’ll write a little bit more about what’s happening here in a few days, but this weekend I’ve been watching the WordCamp San Francisco 2011 conference, and with all the brilliant sessions I got inspired, so this morning I crafted this: Thinking if this is at all usable. I’m thinking yes since I’ve been using TextMate for a little longer...

A Freebie WordPress Theme: San Fran

Hey there, hope you’re all doing great and having an awesome weekend! We’ve been working hard on one of our free themes projects over at Theme.fm and just last week we got through the approval process straight into the WordPress.org themes directory, so meet San Fran for WordPress. A few of the features of the theme are custom colors and typography, multi-level navigation, clean...

A Call for WordPress Writers, Developers & Designers

Howdy readers! I haven’t published for quite some time now and some of you probably know the reason — Theme.fm. For those of you who don’t, Theme.fm is a new venture dedicated to theming WordPress, has tutorials, reviews, tips and tricks, freebies and news. Yesterday Theme.fm has turned exactly one month old seems like we’re doing pretty good, with all the references and...

Great News Folks! WordPress 3.2 is Here!

Right, go download it from the WordPress.org website. If you’re looking for a localized version it might be unavailable for a while so you’ll have to wait, although the Russian one has been shipped already. The new interface is fantastic, although I’m used to that already since I’ve been working with RC’s locally for a while. And the credits screen, ah the credits...

Fine Tuning Your WordPress Themes with Theme.fm

Hey there, long time no read eh? Well the reason to that is that I’ve been extremely busy with an exciting project, and today I’m glad to announce it, although it’s been launched last week. Theme.fm is a blog, journal, magazine (call it whatever you like) about fine tuning your WordPress themes. And what does that mean? Well, themes for WordPress are certainly not new, but they...

WordPress 3.2 RC1 Preview (Screenshots)

Not a technical post indeed, but simply one that showcases the new WordPress 3.2 (actually it’s release candidate) with some walkthrough screenshots, from the new admin panel UI to the new Twenty Eleven theme that ships as the default with WordPress 3.2. If you’re wondering I’m running the Theme Unit Test data which is why my brand new installation has so many posts and pages...