This week one of my colleagues was working on a new project, where a page template in the parent theme was broken. There was a better similar page template to use instead, but there might still be the chance that … Read more →
The lastest WordPress major release 5.5 was released mid August. There have been some nice new features. But one of these new features has not been mentioned in many posts about the new release. It’s the possibility to replace an … Read more →
On many client projects, there is a need to create custom post types. I usually create them using the wp scaffold post-type command from the WP-CLI. This will create the necessary PHP functions with the most common definitions and a … Read more →
Around two weeks ago, the Global Leads, the Local Lead and the Mentor of WordCamp Europe 2021 took the hard decision to postpone the in-person event in 2021 in Porto for another year and organize the next edition of WCEU … Read more →
Last week I started with a new project and developed a theme using Underscores as the base theme. I always use the “sassified” version and create it with the WP-CLI scaffold command. When I inspected the files, I could see … Read more →
Even the largest hard drive has a limit. From time to time, you have to clean up some file to be able to work on some new projects. Working on multiple WordPress projects, old and new ones, can use up … Read more →
I’ve probably wrote in earlier blog posts, that I usually use PhpStorm when developing websites. Some weeks ago, every time when I have tried to open a Markdown file, I got the following error: As I’m quite familiar with writing … Read more →
Yesterday, the 8th edition of WordCamp Europe had it’s final day. And it was an amazing experience. I had the pleasure to take part as an organizer, but the result was quite different, that I would have expected. WordCamp Europe … Read more →
I always develop sites locally. My local environment is using Docker, which I will probably cover in an upcoming blog post series. Sometimes I’m experiencing really long request times, especially in the WordPress backend. As I also usually use the … Read more →
I love reusable blocks! OK, right now everyone is talking about “(Block) Patterns” and they will be amazing. But many still don’t know about reusable blocks or just don’t know, why they are so useful. What is a reusable block … Read more →