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Posts in Category ‘Advent calendar’

  • 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 →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • 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 →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • 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 →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • 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 →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 10, 2017
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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
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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
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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 6, 2017
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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
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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
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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 →

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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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