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 →
Working on a WordPress project I always develop locally. For many projects, there is also a staging server. So migrating WordPress installations is a very frequent task for me. Therefore a good process is key. Easy migrations without plugins When … Read more →
Since Version 4.7, WordPress will create a screenshot of the first page of any uploaded PDF file. In order for that to work, ImageMagick and the PHP extension must be installed on the server. On an Ubuntu 18 webserver I … Read more →
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 →
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 →