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  • April 11, 2021
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Accessibility is not a feature

The yearly Global Accessibility Awareness Day is still some weeks away – this year it be celebrated on 20 May 2021 – but some recent discussions made be pick this topic for my next blog post. It’s not just a … Read more →

  • Posted in: Misc
  • March 28, 2021
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Repairing the WordPress database

Earlier this week one website was not responding and showing an error that the connection to the database was not possible. Such an error is usually a sign, that the credentials are invalid. But no changes have been made to … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • March 14, 2021
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Show comments of private posts in the comments widget

In September 2017 I wrote a blog post on how to show tags from private posts in the tags widget. Three weeks ago I got a comment (on the German blog post) if something similar would be possible for comments … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • February 28, 2021
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Get detailed download stats for plugins

Recently I was checking the downloads of a plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory. In the “Advanced View” of a plugin you will find a “Downloads Per Day” graph with the numbers from the past 267 days. Let’s take a … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • February 14, 2021
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Better security for WordPress with secure server headers

There are many options to make a WordPress website more secure. For some of those options you might use additional plugins. But there is an easy way to increase the security by setting only some server settings. But before I … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • January 31, 2021
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Debugging memory usage

Last week, an issue was reported for a site. It only occurred sometimes and the result was an Error 500. Activating the WP_DEBUG mode I was quickly able to find out that the memory limit was hit. The only fix … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • January 17, 2021
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Set the debug level using error_reporting

Everyone knows that. You work on a website and you run into issues. Sometime you even get a critical error like this: But in some cases, you don’t get the error on every single request. Then you have to activate … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • December 27, 2020
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Prevent deletion of post type items that are still used

This is probably an issue may of you have tun into. You embed a post type items into a page or post and then you delete this item without knowing it was embedded somewhere. For this example I will use … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • December 13, 2020
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Extract strings from Gutenberg blocks for translations

While developing my first more complex blocks I ran into different issues. One of them was extracting the strings for my translations. In my previous blog post I showed you how to get those strings for PHP files. Those methods … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • November 29, 2020
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Translate a plugin or theme without additional software or plugins

If you want to translate a plugin or theme, I would always recommend to use the free Poedit software which is available on Windows, Linux and Mac. Even though the Pro version has some special WordPress specific feature, you don’t … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
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Portrait Bernhard Kau

 

My name is Bernhard Kau. I am a PHP developer, living in Berlin, working in the beautiful Babelsberg and I am a passionated WordPress user. I code plugins as a hobby and organize WordPress events, like the Meetup in Berlin.

Recent Posts

  • Accessibility is not a feature
  • Repairing the WordPress database
  • Show comments of private posts in the comments widget
  • Get detailed download stats for plugins
  • Better security for WordPress with secure server headers

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