Following coding styles is important, not only when developing for yourself, but even more when working in a team. It means fewer issues, and it also avoids unnecessary changes when using version control, which can easily cause conflicts as well. … 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 →
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 →