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!

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Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

18contributions

high14

medium4

score46

Last 90 days

24contributions

high19

medium5

score62

Last 12 months

30contributions

high24

medium6

score78

Contributions

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July 2026

Jul 14 Tue · 07:52

Forums med

Posted a reply to Very slow loading times in admin panels, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @crossy, Thank you - this is one of the most useful bug reports we've…

Jul 14 Tue · 07:45

Plugins high

Committed [3607051] to Plugins SVN:
Release 2.8.4 — fix slow admin on large sites: gate refresh() to sortable list screens (no more work on Dashboard/Plugins/Tools/Settings) + batched CASE renumber instead of one UPDATE per row. Reported by @crossy. Tag 2.8.4.

Jul 01 Wed · 10:37

Plugins high

Committed [3592537] to Plugins SVN:
Tag 2.8.3

Jul 01 Wed · 10:36

Plugins high

Committed [3592536] to Plugins SVN:
Release 2.8.3: per-object authorization on reorder AJAX endpoints (IDOR hardening, reported by WP.org Plugin Review Team) + fix custom order ignored on admin Posts list under All dates/category filters (<a class="closed ticket" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/153" title="#153: defect: no error reporting (closed: fixed)">#153</a>, props r-a-y)

June 2026

Jun 26 Fri · 12:07

Forums med

Posted a reply to Ordering is not working in admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad I could help. If everything else comes up,…

Jun 26 Fri · 11:40

Forums med

Posted a reply to Ordering is not working in admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @deisedesign, thanks for the detailed write-up. Good news: this isn't a WordPress-core or template-filtering…

Jun 26 Fri · 11:39

Forums med

Posted a reply to version 2.8.1 – Order is not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @ffusion, thanks for the report and sorry for the disruption — you read it…

Jun 26 Fri · 11:27

Plugins high

Committed [3587192] to Plugins SVN:
Release 2.8.2 — fix new posts defaulting to the bottom of the order (regression from 2.8.0 <a class="closed ticket" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45" title="#45: defect: Multi Word tags (closed: fixed)">#45</a>)

Jun 22 Mon · 14:33

Plugins high

Committed [3581920] to Plugins SVN:
Bump Tested up to: <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 7.0

Jun 22 Mon · 14:32

Plugins high

Committed [3581917] to Plugins SVN:
Bump Tested up to: <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 7.0