Maedah Batool

ⓦ WordPress Marketing Team Representative & WP Core Contributing Developer ❯ 🎩 #OpenSourceress ❯ ✍️ Tech Journalist, Developer & Teacher ❯ 👩‍💻 OSS Content Program Manager at TheDevCouple ❯ 👩‍🏫 Taught thousands of girls how to code #GirlsWhoCode ❯ 💜 Love my husband (Ahmad Awais), Minions, and 🍕

March 20, 2018

Learn Visual Studio Code — Become a VSCode Power User!

Ahmad Awais has announced a course to help developers become Visual Studio Code Power User. If you are interested in building a better development workflow, or if you want to save five to ten hours a week by being super productive, then sign up. Become a Visual Studio Code Power Developer. 💯

VSCode Power User

March 13, 2018

🦁 2017 Year in Review: TheDevCouple Core Contribution, Open Source, & Google

2017 was a wonderful year, I was able to accomplish a lot, become a WordPress Core Contributor (first female from PK) twice, kickstart TheDevCouple Campaign, and improve upon hundreds of open source projects with my better half. I am also in the job market looking for the next big opportunity and in the review, I discussed my interviews at Google.

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November 16, 2017

WordPress 4.9 Tipton & My Core Contribution

In the spirit of regular contributions to the WordPress, I have made my second core contribution and this time in the WordPress 4.9 Tipton. Yes! WordPress 4.9 Tipton got released early today and here’s a post about what’s new in it…

WordPress 4.9 Tipton

October 19, 2017

#LiveWrite Sessions — Workflow Improvement in WP Core #Marketing

It’s been over two months since I am contributing to the marketing team at Make WordPress. Despite, I contribute to other WordPress teams at make, but some things are really special about the marketing channel. It all begins with the…

September 30, 2017

📣 Twitter’s New Character Limit & I Can Use It!

I was super excited to know that I am one of those Twitter users who can enjoy the new characters limit. For it means wordier messages, no shorthands and lots and lots of emojis. 🎉 The announcement to double the…

September 28, 2017

WordPress Gutenberg & JavaScript So Far and What’s Next?

It’s nothing new: whenever WordPress rolls out something, everybody jumps on it right away. And the Gutenberg editor is the most talked about topic in the WordPress community right now. Why not? Powering more than 28% of the web has…

August 10, 2017

The New Bluehost!

Bluehost has launched their new interface which guides newbies to get started with their WordPress site setup, manage it and access their marketplace. The team at Bluehost is calling it as the NEW Bluehost experience, and until now the initiative looks great.

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June 8, 2017

On Becoming a WordPress Core Contributor 🎉

I have made my first WordPress core contribution. This has been a long time coming. I am super excited — I think Ahmad & I — we are the first couple to have contributed to the same WordPress release! Isn’t that amazing! 🎉

January 10, 2017

🦊 2016 — the Year Everything Changed!

If my recollection of lost isn’t misleading me, then it was probably the same month (I mean January) when I read the year in review by Ahmad Awais. Though I had been regularly scrolling through different annual reports and statistics,…

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June 21, 2016

The Making of a WordPress Journalist

Here’s my story of how I went from being an Electrical Engineer to a WordPress Journalist cum Researcher and how I managed my passion for becoming my paycheck. Today, I review products, provide WordPress support and handle technical documentations. P.S….