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  • May 23, 2021
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Why you should not put theme code in plugins

I regularly maintain about 40 WordPress websites. Updating plugins and themes can cause issue, but updating core usually goes without any issue. Not so this week on a new website I updated for the first time. After the core update … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • April 25, 2021
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Hide the download button for audio and video blocks

Last week I was asked for help on a website project. In this project, the website embeds some audio files into the page. This is a great feature of WordPress making it so easy to embed media files. But some … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • March 28, 2021
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Repairing the WordPress database

Earlier this week one website was not responding and showing an error that the connection to the database was not possible. Such an error is usually a sign, that the credentials are invalid. But no changes have been made to … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • March 14, 2021
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Show comments of private posts in the comments widget

In September 2017 I wrote a blog post on how to show tags from private posts in the tags widget. Three weeks ago I got a comment (on the German blog post) if something similar would be possible for comments … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • February 28, 2021
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Get detailed download stats for plugins

Recently I was checking the downloads of a plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory. In the “Advanced View” of a plugin you will find a “Downloads Per Day” graph with the numbers from the past 267 days. Let’s take a … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • February 14, 2021
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Better security for WordPress with secure server headers

There are many options to make a WordPress website more secure. For some of those options you might use additional plugins. But there is an easy way to increase the security by setting only some server settings. But before I … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • January 31, 2021
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Debugging memory usage

Last week, an issue was reported for a site. It only occurred sometimes and the result was an Error 500. Activating the WP_DEBUG mode I was quickly able to find out that the memory limit was hit. The only fix … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • January 17, 2021
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Set the debug level using error_reporting

Everyone knows that. You work on a website and you run into issues. Sometime you even get a critical error like this: But in some cases, you don’t get the error on every single request. Then you have to activate … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • December 27, 2020
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Prevent deletion of post type items that are still used

This is probably an issue may of you have tun into. You embed a post type items into a page or post and then you delete this item without knowing it was embedded somewhere. For this example I will use … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • December 13, 2020
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Extract strings from Gutenberg blocks for translations

While developing my first more complex blocks I ran into different issues. One of them was extracting the strings for my translations. In my previous blog post I showed you how to get those strings for PHP files. Those methods … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
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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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