This week, I was asked for help setting up Xdebug with PhpStorm on a Linux laptop in combination with Docker. I might write about that in an upcoming blog post, but today, I want to focus on different methods to … Read more →
Yesterday, I visited WordCamp Leipzig. It was the first in-person event in Germany since 2019. It was a WordCamp, but also special in some ways. Taking a train to Leipzig When attending a WordCamp, I usually have to book trains … Read more →
I’m writing this blog post while I’m still in Greece. This year, I experienced the WordCamp in a different role. In 2017, I’ve joined the organizing team and continued to organize all in-person events until last year. But for the … Read more →
I usually write a blog post on 20 June each year to celebrate the birthday of this blog. But today I want to celebrate #WP20 with you, the 20th birthday of our beloved open source software. No longer a teenager … Read more →
This week, I reviewed the code of a website. The website was using some code snippets. In one of those snippets, I’ve found a PHP nested function. The code didn’t work as expected. Not because of the nested function, but … Read more →
I’m writing this blog post on my new server. The old one will be shut down in about two hours. As it had quite a few WordPress sites and one Matomo instance hosted, migrating everything was quite a task. Migrating … Read more →
Last week, I had quite an interesting issue to deal with. The site had a custom post type for webinars. When you are registered, you were supposed to see a “Join” button some minutes before the webinar starts. There was … Read more →
Last weekend, I went to Europa-Park in Rust, to attend my second CloudFest Hackathon. This year’s event had 11 projects, and 7 of them were WordPress projects (some other were only slightly connected to WordPress). Last year, I joined the … Read more →
I recently got myself a new web server. On this new server, I’m playing around with OpenLiteSpeed, which I have never used before. It comes with its own admin dashboard to manage the server. But it writes everything into configuration … Read more →
About two weeks ago, I was preparing myself for a long trip to Thailand. This would also be my first trip to Asia. After WordCamp Asia was canceled in 2020 just 9 days before the event, it finally happened in … Read more →