In one of my advent calendar blog posts in 2016 I wrote (in German) about how to create a SVG sprite with SVG symbols using a Gulp script. With Gutenberg becoming a major part of WordPress I have used the … Read more →
Last week I was asked for help on a website project. In this project, the website embeds some audio files into the page. This is a great feature of WordPress making it so easy to embed media files. But some … Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →