For many years now, I am using Docker for my local development environment. In the beginning I was using my own custom images, but lately I’m mainly using “abstractions” like DDEV or wp-env, especially when working with WordPress projects. I … 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 →
Last week, a colleague was asking, how you set the upload limit for WordPress. He tried different things, but still the limit was not increased. Let’s take a look, at what you have to do, to raise the limit. Checking … Read more →
This week, I reviewed the code of a website. The website was using some code snippets. In one of those snippets, I’ve found a PHP nested function. The code didn’t work as expected. Not because of the nested function, but … 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 had quite an interesting issue to deal with. The site had a custom post type for webinars. When you are registered, you were supposed to see a “Join” button some minutes before the webinar starts. There was … Read more →
I recently got myself a new web server. On this new server, I’m playing around with OpenLiteSpeed, which I have never used before. It comes with its own admin dashboard to manage the server. But it writes everything into configuration … Read more →
In November last year, I have explained, how you can use different Git settings for personal and company projects. In one of the snippets, I have used an SSH key to sign commits. But as in the past, commits were … Read more →
As mentioned in my last blog post, I have a little bonus topic to the maps series. In the previous post, we have created a map with Leaflet in JavaScript. The map visualized the capital cities of all German states. … Read more →