Notebook of

Aditya Kane

Websites, WordPress and more..

Experiments, learnings, and dispatches from years of building with WordPress. Part archive, part workshop, part open notebook.

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Experiments and Learning

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Block Development

Building Custom Blocks That Actually Ship

Lessons from creating production-ready Gutenberg blocks — the patterns that work, the pitfalls to dodge, and why render callbacks are your friend.

Theme.json Deep Dive: Beyond the Basics

An extended exploration of theme.json version 3 — custom spacing scales, block-level style overrides, and making design tokens that scale with your project.

WordPress Speed: The Lazy Developer’s Checklist

Forget the 47-step optimization guides. Here are the ten things that actually move the needle on Core Web Vitals for real WordPress sites.

Events

Ideas shared at WordCamps, meetups, and community events around the world.

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WordCamp Asia 2026

WordCamp Asia 2026 – Notes

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WordCamp Europe 2024

Block Themes: From Zero to Beautiful in 30 Minutes

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WordPress Contributor Day 2024

Contributing to Open Source: A Practical Playbook

Aditya Kane

Studio Goncharov and COmmunity Builder

A WordPress enthusiast with a passion for open source, community building, and making the web a better place. With years of experience building themes, plugins, and contributing to the WordPress ecosystem, this site is a living notebook of experiments, learnings, and ideas worth sharing.

When not writing code or crafting presentations, you’ll find me exploring new places, reading about design systems, or mentoring aspiring developers in the WordPress community.