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  • December 1, 2019
  • 0 comments

Optimize icon web fonts for your needs

On almost any modern website you find icons. They are often used on links to social media profiles. Many WordPress themes come bundled with such a web font for icons. Nowadays I usually always use SVG symbols instead of icon … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • January 13, 2018
  • 1 comment

Compiling SASS in PhpStorm automatically with a file watcher

In the first post of this litte blog series I showed you how to install SASS manually and how to compile it using the terminal. But this way is not very user friendly and you could easily forget to start … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • January 1, 2018
  • 0 comments

An intense year in review

First of all, Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you all made it well to 2018. Since you probably recognized, that I haven't blogged in the past weeks, I want to give you a small review of … Read more →

  • Posted in: Misc
  • December 10, 2017
  • 1 comment

Getting started with SASS

This is going to be the start of a small series of blog posts. I am not spoiling too much of the end result, but it has something to do with the special seasons of the year. The idea to … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 9, 2017
  • 0 comments

Correct quotes in WordPress

Different languages use different quotation marks. In English, is usually looks like this: “…”. In Germany it looks like this: „…“. And in French they use other symbols: « … ». Correct typography is not always easy to get, especially when you … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar, Uncategorized
  • December 8, 2017
  • 4 comments

This blog is now ad-free

As of today, I have removed all ads from this blog. I've used Google AdSense almost since the beginning of this blog. I have also experimented with some other advertisements and until today I had two banners to the affiliate … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 7, 2017
  • 0 comments

Selfish WordPress support

I love the WordPress community. They are wonderful people and I enjoy it very much to attend as many WordCamps in new cities/countries as I can to meet even more new members of the global community. That also the reason … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • December 6, 2017
  • 0 comments

Gutenberg test

On my way to WordCamp Cologne, I tested the new Gutenberg editor for the first time. As I didn't just wanted to type some random text, I wrote a small blog post about how I just use the editor and … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 5, 2017
  • 0 comments

Insert shortcodes into sidebar widgets

Shortcode can be very useful, when you want to insert dynamic content into a static page or a post. WordPress is offering some internal shortcodes such as the shortcode (which is usually rendered in the backend). By default, shortcodes can … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 4, 2017
  • 1 comment

How to handle closed plugins from the directory

I am pretty sure that everyone of you is using plugins from the official directory. All of those plugins are reviewed before they went live and if they haven’t been updated in the last two years, you can’t find them … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
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Portrait Bernhard Kau

 

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

Recent Posts

  • Fixing slow WooCommerce logins: 15 million order notes and two comments
  • Show only WooCommerce products in the default WordPress search
  • Allow editors to edit the privacy policy page
  • How to permanently delete a contact in Mailchimp
  • Why the trash is not a safe place to move content to

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