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Cristian Antohe

Cristian Antohe is the co-owner and creator of cozmoslabs.com. He’s a WordPress developer, web designer, Open Source fanatic. During the day he’s making things go over at Reflection Media and also curates wpMail.me.

He’s also (and more importantly) the father of a daughter called Iasmina and the husband of a lovely wife called Madalina.

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Q&A about Akismet with Pete Davies

Pete Davies is a Business Engineer at Automattic and you’ll probably find him writing articles on the Akismet blog. Akismet is an anti-spam filter for comments. If you visit the website, Akismet is described as “possibly the best way in the world to protect you from web spam”, which from my experience is not far [...]
By | Published: November 21, 2011 | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

WordPress Developer Tools

During the last 3 years while providing web-design and development solutions to our clients over at Reflection Media, we’re tried our best to optimize our processes and development time by reusing code, creating a database of often used code snipets and constructing generalist plugins when possible. While this didn’t always work out as expected, we’ve [...]
By | Published: November 3, 2011 | Posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments

What Is WordPress?

Ever now and again the question arises with new clients that aren’t really tech savvy: “What Is WordPress?” What I’m hopping to achieve with this post is to drop the technical jargon for a minute and explain in down to earth words what is WordPress , how can it help you, what is WordPress.com, what’s [...]
By | Published: September 26, 2011 | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

WordPress Automatic Updates Based on Folder Name. Is That a Problem?

Automatic Updates are great. They are one of the best if not THE best feature WordPress has. I’ve loved it since it was introduced in 2.7 (2.5 for plugins) and it’s something that really makes my life easier. If I’m not mistaken, WordPress automatic updates for themes and plugins are based on the folder name [...]
By | Published: July 13, 2011 | Posted in plugins, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , | 13 Comments

Profile Builder Pro is WordPress Registration Done Right

Let’s face it. WordPress default registration process is no good. Hard to customize, hard to integrate it in your theme and not that user friendly. Profile Builder Pro is WordPress Registration Done Right Super easy to customize. Chose from the default styling it comes with or just add css to your theme and you’re done. [...]
By | Published: July 6, 2011 | Posted in plugins, Profile Builder, Wordpress | Tagged , , | 11 Comments

Profile Builder Beta

There’s a new version of Profile Builder WordPress plugin. It features the following new features: New interface Create Extra User Fields (like birthdate or education level) Add avatar upload for users and automatic integration with any theme that uses get_avatar() Shortcodes for login, register and edit profile to use in pages and widgets. Select what [...]
By | Published: June 7, 2011 | Posted in General, plugins, Profile Builder, Wordpress | Tagged , | 77 Comments

wpMail.me – a concise, once weekly free roundup of WordPress news and articles

wpMail.me is a concise, once-weekly free round up of news and articles. It’s main goal is to ease some of the information overload we encounter in our daily computing by providing with a list of curated articles, news and tutorials. Also since it’s once a week you can batch process it all in 1 hour [...]
By | Published: May 23, 2011 | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Get the latest comments for a custom post type in WordPress

Custom post types for WordPress support comments, however the API doesn’t allow for retrieving those comments. So in order to get the latest comments from your custom post type you need to do an sql query that does a LEFT OUTER JOIN between the comments table and the posts table:   /* Get recent comments [...]
By | Published: May 20, 2011 | Posted in plugins, Wordpress | Tagged , | 2 Comments

SVN EOL and the WordPress.org repository

As you might now we’ve recently released Profile Builder e front-end registration, login and edit profile plugin. All went well and we’ve got proper feedback. Apparently people liked the idea. However, when the time came to put it on the repository things started to get weird. For reasons beyond my understanding, the profilebuilder.php and uninstall.php [...]
By | Published: April 14, 2011 | Posted in General, plugins, Wordpress | Tagged , , | Leave a comment