In WordPress, emails are sent from different places. Most typically are mails sent by a form plugin. In probably most of them you can set the “from name” and “form email”. But there are also mails that are sent from … Read more →
For a current project, we use WordPress as the backend for a native mobile app. The app is developed by another company. I’m responsible for the WordPress part. The content for the app is being created using multiple custom post … Read more →
In my last blog post I’ve showed you how to deactivate page templates in a child theme and this week I have another tip on how to deactivate some of the things that might come with a parent theme or … Read more →
This week one of my colleagues was working on a new project, where a page template in the parent theme was broken. There was a better similar page template to use instead, but there might still be the chance that … Read more →
The lastest WordPress major release 5.5 was released mid August. There have been some nice new features. But one of these new features has not been mentioned in many posts about the new release. It’s the possibility to replace an … Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Working on a website, wheater it already went live or is a new project, you should alsways have a copy of the website in staging environment. But you probably don’t want that website being index by search engines. In this … Read more →
In the last blog post I explained how I move a WordPress website to another server. In step 7 I told you, that you have t replace the domain in the database. But this is not the only replacement you … Read more →