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Silkalns

Scientist at Divilab

@silkalns Jūrmala, Latvia joined Feb 2013

colorlib.com github.com/puikinsh Slack: @silkalns

    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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    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Scientist
    Present
    Divilab

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    18contributions
    high4
    medium14
    score26
    Last 90 days
    68contributions
    high41
    medium27
    score150
    Last 12 months
    126contributions
    high92
    medium34
    score310

    Contributions

    Type
    November 2026
    Nov 09 Mon · 11:37
    Plugins high
    Committed [3792374] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 3.4.3
    Nov 03 Tue · 10:14
    Plugins high
    Committed [3781538] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 2.8.12 — WooCommerce category order, false conflicts and MyISAM support
    Nov 03 Tue · 10:09
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to The order changed in another window or request. Reload the list before reorderin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Awesome! Thank you for confirming. Will release it shortly as final version for 2.8.12
    Nov 03 Tue · 09:45
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to The order changed in another window or request. Reload the list before reorderin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks, that helps a lot: the admin order now saves, so the remaining problem is…
    Nov 03 Tue · 08:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to The order changed in another window or request. Reload the list before reorderin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @oscarjiv91 , thanks, that's the missing piece. When a theme or another plugin sorts the…
    Nov 03 Tue · 08:47
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Sort order not reflected in the Query Loop block (custom post type), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for testing, glad it works! This will ship in 2.8.12. Marking as resolved.
    Nov 02 Mon · 13:42
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to The order changed in another window or request. Reload the list before reorderin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Sorry it's still not working. We tested beta 3 with the latest WooCommerce and can't…
    Nov 02 Mon · 11:37
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to The order changed in another window or request. Reload the list before reorderin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for the details. They let us reproduce it. WooCommerce has its own drag-sorter on…
    Nov 02 Mon · 11:37
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Sort order not reflected in the Query Loop block (custom post type), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks, this was a real gap. The Query Loop block always sends its own sort,…
    October 2026
    Oct 28 Wed · 07:32
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Taxonomy and category terms dissapered, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for reporting this. Please leave sorting disabled for the affected taxonomies for now. Since…

    Developer

    9 plugins

    Contributor

    21 plugins

    Themes

    11 themes

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