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 →
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 →
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 →
In my project I use WordPress as a backend for a native app, I have implemented two custom post types. For booth post types only a limited set of blocks should be available. That’s simply due to the fact, that … Read more →
In WordPress, emails are sent from different places. Most typically are mails sent by a form plugin. In probably most of them you can set the “from name” and “form email”. But there are also mails that are sent from … Read more →
For a current project, we use WordPress as the backend for a native mobile app. The app is developed by another company. I’m responsible for the WordPress part. The content for the app is being created using multiple custom post … Read more →