Last year, I wrote a blog post about how to secure your website with server headers. When changing the security headers, there is always the chance that some things stop working, as they need “more unsecure” settings. One of these … Read more →
Migrating a WordPress site is something I do a lot on a weekly basis. Many migrations happen between local environments or production and staging. The source and target systems don’t necessarily have the same settings. From time to time you … Read more →
Updating WordPress and it’s plugins and themes is usually straightforward. You navigate to the “Dashboard | Updates” and update the components. If an error happens while updating WordPress Core or plugins/themes, WordPress can usually handle this and roll back, but … Read more →
Some weeks ago, I had quite an unusual issue with Git. In a repository I hadn’t used for quite a while, I simply wanted to see, if I had any changes, so I ran a git status on it with … Read more →
When using custom JavaScript and CSS files, you usually use the wp_enqueue_script() and wp_enqueue_style() functions. If not, please start doing so. Using them is really easy, but when it comes to effective usage, there are some little things to keep … Read more →
I really like using GravityForms to create highly dynamic forms. The form builder offer a wide range of possibilities. But sometimes you need to use some code to hook into parts of the form processing. In this blog post I … Read more →
In a Facebook group someone wanted to know how to order the posts on a category page alphabetically. In this blog post want to show, how you can easily sort posts on a category (or any other) archive page. Sorting … Read more →
When developing projects, I often use Custom Post Types (CPT). In a new project, the content of the entries were build completely with core blocks. In the past, I typically used custom meta fields and a fixed page template. But … Read more →
When developing a plugin or theme, you sometimes want to debug one specific function. This function might be used in a larger context, which makes debugging quite difficult and/or slow. Let’s take the example of a function used in a … Read more →
In a previous blog post, I wrote about how I used Gravity Forms to register users. This was done on a static page and not on the default WordPress registration page. When you want users to register using a different … Read more →