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Posts in Category ‘Web development’

  • 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
  • March 14, 2022
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Repair a broken Git Repository file system

Some weeks ago, I had quite an unusual issue with Git. In a repository I hadn’t used for quite a while, I simply wanted to see, if I had any changes, so I ran a git status on it with … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 5, 2021
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Debugging PHP functions in WordPress

When developing a plugin or theme, you sometimes want to debug one specific function. This function might be used in a larger context, which makes debugging quite difficult and/or slow. Let’s take the example of a function used in a … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • May 9, 2021
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Creating SVG sprites in combination with wordpress/scripts

In one of my advent calendar blog posts in 2016 I wrote (in German) about how to create a SVG sprite with SVG symbols using a Gulp script. With Gutenberg becoming a major part of WordPress I have used the … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • August 23, 2020
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Order post type navigation by name

On many client projects, there is a need to create custom post types. I usually create them using the wp scaffold post-type command from the WP-CLI. This will create the necessary PHP functions with the most common definitions and a … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • July 12, 2020
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Cleaning up space on your development environment

Even the largest hard drive has a limit. From time to time, you have to clean up some file to be able to work on some new projects. Working on multiple WordPress projects, old and new ones, can use up … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • May 24, 2020
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Block external requests for faster local development

I always develop sites locally. My local environment is using Docker, which I will probably cover in an upcoming blog post series. Sometimes I’m experiencing really long request times, especially in the WordPress backend. As I also usually use the … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • February 1, 2020
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Show missing images from live websites on a development system

When you develop a website, that has already gone live, you usually have to get the latest version of the database to test things. You also need a WordPress system locally with all the plugins and themes that are used … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
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