I usually write a blog post on 20 June each year to celebrate the birthday of this blog. But today I want to celebrate #WP20 with you, the 20th birthday of our beloved open source software. No longer a teenager … Read more →
I’m writing this blog post on my new server. The old one will be shut down in about two hours. As it had quite a few WordPress sites and one Matomo instance hosted, migrating everything was quite a task. Migrating … Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Earlier this week, Topher asked an interesting question on Twitter regarding the current state of block development: This made me think about I would answer this question. When I first started with block development, I primarily wrote “server side rendered … Read more →
WordPress comes with different roles, and it’s usually best not to give everyone the “Administrator” role. The next best role would be the “Editor” role, which enables a user to edit all contents, their own one and the content from … Read more →
Updating WordPress and it’s plugins and themes is usually straightforward. You navigate to the “Dashboard | Updates” and update the components. If an error happens while updating WordPress Core or plugins/themes, WordPress can usually handle this and roll back, but … Read more →