Blog – Sekander's Blog

September 2, 2022

How to use SVN on OSX for WordPress.org Themes and Plugins

Previously you had to use the terminal to use SVN. You still can but I think graphical solutions are much better as you just have to click a couple of buttons and it’s done faster than typing things manually and pushing a commit to the remote server. Here are the steps I followed today- 1. […]
August 1, 2021

How to Install Free Lets Encrypt SSL in Namecheap Shared Hosting 2021

I have been using the PHP client from Kelunik earlier for Let’s Encrypt SSL till last month. I noticed that the Acme API now has version 2, and version 1 will be deprecated from June 2021. So, I had to upgrade the API version but found it challenging and complicated to switch between the APIs. […]
July 28, 2021

My Understanding about the Declining Growth of WordPress and its Plugins

Post Status has recently published a post titled Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021? which rang the bell in some of the community members and people I know. As a business guy, I love data and graphs about trends and the growth of products. Themeum, the current brand I […]

Analysis, Market, Opinion
June 27, 2021

How do I prepare myself as a marketing professional?

JoomShaper is the company I am working at this moment. They have a few vacancies at the content and marketing department. A family friend of mine asked for some guidelines about preparing herself as a marketing professional. While I was gathering links for courses and certifications, I thought I must share this with everyone 😃 […]

links, list, resources, suggestions
March 16, 2021

Tools and Commands I Use For WordPress Theme and Plugin Testing

If you have not noticed yet, I work as a Business Development Manager for a WordPress plugin company named Themeum. It has been quite a while performing this role and testing products and ensuring better quality. Providing a great user experience is a very crucial part of my job. I try to test all the […]
December 7, 2020

ওয়ার্ডপ্রেস প্রডাক্ট এর আইডিয়া আগে না মার্কেট আগে?

ডিম আগে না মুরগি আগে? এই প্রশ্নটা অনেকের কাছে কনফিউজিং মনে হয়। কিন্তু আমার কাছে সোজা হিসাব- মুরগি আগে। ঠিক সেইম ভাবে, যারা ওয়ার্ডপ্রেস মার্কেট এর জন্য প্রডাক্ট বানাচ্ছেন, তাদের জন্য আইডিয়া আগে না মার্কেট আগে, সেই প্রশ্নের উত্তরও আমার কাছে সোজা মনে হয়- মার্কেট আগে। তবে এখানেও কনফিউজ হওয়ার যায়গা আছে। কারণ অনেকে বলেন […]
May 5, 2020

How to Market a Software or Service – Not a Guide

I have started working in the tech industry from 2011 but I still believe I am fairly new and have very little experience to advice startup founders and marketing strategists graduated from big universities. In this post, I will be sharing my very own personal views and experience I have gathered from selling internet service, […]

sales, software
March 15, 2020

My Personal Recommendations for Distributed Company and Employee

Coronavirus or Covid-19 is pushing a lot of us to stay in home quarantine and work remotely. Recently, my current company JoomShaper went to full remote mode and some of my colleagues asked me to share some tips about how to be productive and stay motivated while working from home. I have been on trial […]
October 11, 2019

Git not working in macOS Catalina?

I just updated to macOS Catalina yesterday. When started my terminal, it wasn’t able to recognize it as a Git repository. I work with WordPress plugins. So I thought I might have updated directly from WordPress.org so the Git folder got replaced and it is not a Git repo anymore! So I tried to clone […]
May 7, 2019

Setting up Localhost on OSX Mojave for PHP Development

Laravel Valet? What is it? I am using Laravel Valet to install Nginx and a domain masking service which will allow us to access our localhost address (127.0.0.1) from a domain something like mysite.test. Valet is helpful for people who have a very low configuration laptop or PC. I use MacBook Air with 8GB RAM […]