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themeisle.com
Company blog · themeisle.com/blogweb
themeisle.com is the company blog at themeisle.com, writing about web. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link themeisle.com's how-to posts on WordPress, including CSS in WordPress, local development, Gmail with a custom domain, free Zapier alternatives and web accessibility statistics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Themeisle | https://themeisle.com | REMOTE | Full-time, Contract | Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, and DevOps engineers We're a global company, for now mostly building some of the most popular themes & plugins for WordPress. We see this as a great entry-point to get in touch directly with small agency owners and make sure we build the right tools for them in the next 10 years. At the same time we're also a media comp…
Comment linking /logo-maker/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today as a story · 192 points
HN discussionThemeisle | https://themeisle.com | REMOTE | Full-time, Contract | Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, and DevOps engineers We're a global company, for now mostly building some of the most popular themes & plugins for WordPress. We see this as a great entry-point to get in touch directly with small agency owners and make sure we build the right tools for them in the next 10 years. At the same time we're also a media comp…
Comment linking /logo-maker/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted Show HN: LogoMaker – Easily create and download free logos [no email required] as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI disagree from a conceptual/philosophical perspective (broken accessibility is bad delivery, not just occasional mishap/edge case for some small set of customer) and from a practical perspective. It's not an occasional customer, it's a huge chunk of the marketplace. Here are some stats: https://themeisle.com/blog/web-accessibility-statistics/ I don't think software shop owners that are ignorant of or ignoring acces…
Comment linking /blog/web-accessibility-statistics/
on “Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility”Submitted My Journey to Creating a WP Plugin with ChatGPT: 120 Hours, No Prior Experience as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSure, you can do that - https://themeisle.com/blog/local-wordpress-development-using... You can also install something like WAMP on Windows and develop locally http://www.wampserver.com As for the benefit... you can switch i.e. PHP version by simply editing the docker-compose.yml file - this is everything but simple on most Linux distributions.
Comment linking /blog/local-wordpress-development-using-docker/
on “Docker Considered Harmful (2016)”Submitted Parallax One – carefully crafted resource for any wordpress developer as a story · 7 points
HN discussion>For my purposes (set up a simple blog and get it running), I truly don't think that I need, or should, have to learn the ins and outs of the tech stack. Well ... if you want a simple blog, then you can setup an account with the 10million hosted blogging services that are out there. And if you want a wordpress blog, then you can set up an account with wordpress.com, or get a hosted solution with Wordpress/LAMP alrea…
Comment linking /blog/vagrant-wordpress/
on “I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages”Submitted Show HN: We Built Hyve, an AI Chatbot for WordPress – First Version Now Free as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI was bored so decided to dig a little as it interested me. I found [1] to be helpful explanation of services Hostinger offers. I would gather from [2] OP's business ought to have had access to on demand back up -- as such I would have the expectation that a large streamlined hosting service, would be able to provide a given number of back ups exported to any practical external storage area via a variety of protocol…
Comment linking /blog/hostinger-pricing/
on “Hostinger Account Suspension and Data Loss Cost Us $200k”Submitted WordPress Themes startup with a crazy approach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wouldn't dismiss the domain brokers ideas but wouldn't be too caught up with them, either, unless you have tried it yourself first. There are domain auction sites. You might start there with a handful and see how it goes. I get solicited all the time for domain names that brokers think I might be interested in due to my industry. But I've already established a reputation with the brands/URLs I have, so I'm not in…
Comment linking /blog/premium-domain-name-for-sale/
on “Ask HN: How to Sell Domain Names?”Submitted We Built a Free Tool to Show You What's Wrong with Your Content as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGmail (the free consumer facing one) can configure custom domains right? Does that not address your need? https://themeisle.com/blog/use-gmail-with-your-own-domain-na...
Comment linking /blog/use-gmail-with-your-own-domain-name/
on “Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023”Submitted The History of Blogging (1997-2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/yl9hno/best_gmail... https://www.positional.com/blog/alternative-search-engines https://themeisle.com/blog/gmail-alternatives/
Comment linking /blog/gmail-alternatives/
on “Ask HN: Why is Gmail account recovery a pain in the ass?”Submitted Show HN: Blog Name Generator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRelated: https://gist.github.com/joymon/89aeb18bef588895426b46a54e2ba... https://themeisle.com/blog/free-zapier-alternatives/ https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/blob/main/READM... https://automatisch.io/ https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723989
Comment linking /blog/free-zapier-alternatives/
on “Zapier Alternatives to Automate Your Workflows (2022)”Submitted Comparison of Best Free Email Marketing Services in January 2020 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://themeisle.com/blog/css-in-wordpress/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS https://www.w3schools.com/css/ https://30-seconds.github.io/30-seconds-of-css/ https://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/
Comment linking /blog/css-in-wordpress/
on “Ask HN: Wife Wants to Learn HTML and CSS. Looking for Tutorials”Submitted 100 Free Line Icons as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUse Mailstore and download it all to a local drive. Make sure you have local backups and you run Mailstore regularly. https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/ It works surprisingly well. To guard your email address, setup your own domain, create an email address and connect it to gmail. https://themeisle.com/blog/use-gmail-with-your-own-domain-na... It's smart to do it. Google can close your account at…
Comment linking /blog/use-gmail-with-your-own-domain-name/
on “Ask HN: How do I eliminate Gmail as a single point of failure”
