When I’ve started this project, I had the goal to only use the Site Editor to rebuild the theme. I wanted to see how far I can come without using custom CSS. My final opponent was the header. Just using … Read more →
The header was always the part of the theme, I wasn’t sure I can easily replicate. But with every new Core or Gutenberg version, there have been more options to accomplish what I want to have as an end result. … Read more →
I initially planned to continue with the header, as mentioned in the last blog post, in which we’ve created a sidebar for our theme in the Site Editor using a “Synced Pattern”. But since this has some downsides I wanted … Read more →
Now that we have fonts and colors, we can start with the structure of the theme. Giving a page a clear structure is fundamental to enable it to be responsive later on. Waipoua structure The Waipoua theme is roughly structured … Read more →
Due to some personal topics, wasn’t able to work on the new theme, or write a new blog post for that matter. But now I’m back and will probably speed up a bit and write more frequently than just every … Read more →
With WordPress 4.9.6, we got some new privacy tools. This includes the new “Privacy Policy Guide”. Have you ever heard of it or even used it? If not, you should take a look at it on your site. You will … Read more →
If you are reading this blog post, you probably came across this issue yourself. You try to set the slug of a page (or other post type), and WordPress is appending a “-2” suffix to the slug. You are searching … Read more →
Two weeks ago, I’ve started to work on a new project. The whole WordPress website was versioned in Git, including a DDEV configuration and an SQL dump for local development. This was great, as it allowed me to get started … Read more →
At the last WP Meetup Potsdam, which was a casual meeting for some food, drinks and talks, one of the new attendees asked a question that sounded easy, but for which we had different answers: How can I migrate all … Read more →
Yesterday, I’ve closed another of my old plugin: Kau-Boy’s Opensearch. Yes, back in the days I had a prefix for all of my plugins, like many others. 😀 This was the fourth plugin I’ve published in the WordPress Plugin Directory. … Read more →