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Posts in Category ‘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
  • January 19, 2020
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Recude motion on a website for better accessibility

This is my secon blog post in the #FocusAccessibility themed January. Today I want to talk about a topic, that is probably not so common when talking about accessibility. Many of you might know how to optimize websites for visually … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • January 1, 2020
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A few easy steps to make a navigation more accessible

A new year, a new blogging project. Torsten Landsiedel restarted the idea of blogging more regularily. But instead of one blog post per week, he reduced it to one new blog post every two weeks, as well as one comment … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 3, 2019
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Allow visitors to call you easily

In the last blog post I wrote about how to customize a web font to add some social media icons to your website. In the project was I’ve mentioned there was the wish to add an icon to call the … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 1, 2019
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Optimize icon web fonts for your needs

On almost any modern website you find icons. They are often used on links to social media profiles. Many WordPress themes come bundled with such a web font for icons. Nowadays I usually always use SVG symbols instead of icon … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
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