Anna Ladoshkina

Anna Ladoshkina is a freelance web designer and developer who likes to build pretty things with WordPress and write about it. Connect with Anna on Twitter (@foralien) or on her website, www.foralien.com.

What’s new and exciting in WordPress 4.1

The upcoming WordPress 4.1 release is going to pass the release candidate mark, so we now have an opportunity to look…

Adaptive content with WordPress

Responsive design not only challenge our tools and approaches to web design and development, but also forces us to…

Beyond blogging: WordPress as a platform

WordPress has evolved hugely over the years from simple fork of blogging software to a powerful platform. According to…

What we can expect from WordPress 3.6

The most recent WordPress release, 3.5, has passed the 6 million download mark. It brought us a renewed media…

How to improve your writing in WordPress

WordPress is a powerful and popular CMS for nearly all types of websites. But what about content creation? Writing is…

Introduce brainstorming to your creative arsenal

Creative thinking is an integral part of design and all art-related professions. Hyper-creative people appear to…

Building your first WordPress plugin (part 3)

There is no need to ask why anybody would want to write a plugin for WordPress. It's one of the primary features that…

Building your first WordPress plugin (part 2)

In the previous part of our series we created the base for a WordPress plugin recognisible by the core. Today we are…

Building your first WordPress plugin (part 1)

One of the primary reasons for WordPress' continued popularity is the ease with which it can be extended and customized…

Creating a responsive header in WordPress 3.4

Amongst all the new features and improvements that the recent WordPress 3.4 release has introduced, there is a hidden…

WordPress Filesystem API: the right way to operate with local files

The evolution of WordPress from a blogging platform into a fully-fledged CMS, simultaneously turns it into a solid…