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Posts in Category ‘Advent calendar’

  • December 10, 2025
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Koko Analytics and Statify – two simple statistics plugins

When I’ve removed all plugins and services using cookies, I’ve also cut ties with Google Analytics. But I still wanted to have a plugin that would give me some statistics and insights into my websites and the content that is … Read more →

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  • December 9, 2025
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Individual Multisite Author – solving a multisite issue on multilingual sites

At the end of every blog post, you’ll find a “Posted by” box, with a short introduction of the author of each blog post. This text comes from my WordPress user profile on this blog, and this can be an … Read more →

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  • December 8, 2025
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Impressum Plus – generate your legal pages with dynamic and up-to-date content

As I’ve mentioned yesterday, I do want to share another plugin from Matthias Kittsteiner and the Epiphyt brand. Today, I want to present his plugin Impressum Plus. The term “Impressum” is mostly used on German website, and is of latin origin. It comes … Read more →

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  • December 7, 2025
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Embed Privacy – a privacy-friendly two-click solution for embeds

Two days ago I wrote about Complianz, the plugin I have used to implement a cookie banner. In this blog post, I’ve mentioned that I have removed any cookies from this blog and that I am using a two-click solution … Read more →

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  • December 6, 2025
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Contact Form 7, CF7 Apps and Flamingo – three plugins for simple forms

It’s still surprising that Contact Form 7 has so many installations, but it is the third most installed plugin on the WordPress Plugin Directory. It is rather “technical”, since you have to build your forms using shortcodes. Only integrating it … Read more →

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  • December 5, 2025
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Complianz – a good option for a free cookie consent banner

I don’t like cookie banners, but who really does, right? On this blog, I’ve removed everything that would need any “consent management tool” and switched to either cookieless solutions or two-click options. More on that in the following blog posts. … Read more →

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  • December 4, 2025
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Classic Editor and Classic Widgets – two “legacy plugins” for older WordPress installations

Those two plugins might come as a surprise for some of you. I’m using the Block Editor, since it was still in a beta state and only available through the Gutenberg plugin. So I am not the usual user of … Read more →

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  • December 3, 2025
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Block Editor: Reverse Columns on Mobile – a small block options plugin

The plugin I share today has two extremes. It is the plugin with one of the longest name, “Block Editor: Reverse Columns on Mobile“, but the least amount of code. The PHP code only loads some JavaScript and CSS. All … Read more →

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  • December 2, 2025
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BackWPup – my go-to plugin for backups

I can’t remember when I discovered BackWPup and for how long I’ve been using it. Back then, it was soley developed by Daniel Hüsken. When he realized that he does not have the time to work on the plugin just … Read more →

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  • December 1, 2025
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Antispam Bee – The essential spam blocking plugin for every blog

This is the first blog post of my “plugin advent calendar“. In the next 24 days, I want to cover plugins I use on my personal websites and websites I help maintain. I hope that I’ll be able to publish … Read more →

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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.

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