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  • December 17, 2022
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Fatal errors on WordPress with PHP 8+ and an incorrect translation

Last week, I got a report about a broken site, that caught me a bit by surprise. I’ll recreate the issue with a dummy plugin here, so show what went wrong. When navigating to the page with the error, this … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • December 4, 2022
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The “text-underline-offset” and other lesser known CSS properties for links

Working for a larger agency has many benefits. One of them is that you work with people, that know a lot more about many things then you do. I usually read commits from my colleagues to see how they do … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • November 27, 2022
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Create a dynamic iCalendar with blog posts

A small local website used a booking calendar plugin. Those bookings were then copied manually to an online calendar, where the team would have an overview on the bookings. Unfortunately, the booking calendar plugin didn’t have any feature to dynamically … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • November 6, 2022
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Use different Git settings for personal and company projects

If you are working for an agency or for your own clients, but you also work on personal projects, you might want to use different Git settings for these two types of projects. When setting up your machine to work … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • October 16, 2022
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Run your custom code only once in an action

WordPress offers a lot of hooks you can use to interact with code. Filters are used to change a value of a passed variable, and you usually want to change this value every time this filter is applied. But for … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • September 24, 2022
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Update all composer dependencies to their latest versions

If you code in PHP, changes are very high that you are using composer to manage your dependencies. At one point, you will add a dependency. The version you’ve first installed can be updated with a single command, but it … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • September 11, 2022
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Work and travel – or how coding on a train can be a challenge

Today I want to share a different type of story. When I travel in Germany, I usually always take the train. If some of you ever travelled from Berlin westbound will probably know, that as soon as you leave Berlin, … Read more →

  • Posted in: Misc
  • August 28, 2022
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Adding form specific Gravity Form hooks to your code

Those of you who read my blog regularly will probably know, that I use Gravity Forms in many projects. I really like the huge feature set of the plugin (and it’s add-ons), but even more than that, the possibilities to … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • August 7, 2022
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Adding some options to a block

After we have seen in the last block post, how we can use modern JavaScript to write a block, I want to show why we would really want to do that by adding some options to our block. I’ll show … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • July 27, 2022
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A first simple block with some ES6 code – it’s not as scary as it sounds

I’m currently on vacation and had some tech free days, so my blog post comes a bit later this week. In the previous post, I’ve shown you, how you can write a block without any ES6/React code. This week I … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
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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

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  • Adding a custom panel to Query Monitor
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