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Posts Tagged ‘Advent Calendar’

  • December 4, 2025
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Classic Editor and Classic Widgets – two “legacy plugins” for older WordPress installations

Those two plugins might come as a surprise for some of you. I’m using the Block Editor, since it was still in a beta state and only available through the Gutenberg plugin. So I am not the usual user of … Read more →

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  • December 3, 2025
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Block Editor: Reverse Columns on Mobile – a small block options plugin

The plugin I share today has two extremes. It is the plugin with one of the longest name, “Block Editor: Reverse Columns on Mobile“, but the least amount of code. The PHP code only loads some JavaScript and CSS. All … Read more →

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  • December 2, 2025
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BackWPup – my go-to plugin for backups

I can’t remember when I discovered BackWPup and for how long I’ve been using it. Back then, it was soley developed by Daniel Hüsken. When he realized that he does not have the time to work on the plugin just … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 1, 2025
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Antispam Bee – The essential spam blocking plugin for every blog

This is the first blog post of my “plugin advent calendar“. In the next 24 days, I want to cover plugins I use on my personal websites and websites I help maintain. I hope that I’ll be able to publish … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 24, 2024
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Creating a dialog with native HTML

Here it is now, the last advent calendar blog post for 2024. Which also means, that many of you are celebrating Christmas today or tomorrow. So why do you read blog posts on such a day? 😁 The last topic … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 23, 2024
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An easier dark mode

Four day ago, I wrote about “The prefers-color-scheme media query” and how to use it to create a dark mode for your browser. Today, I’m telling you: you might not even need it. Hm, but how do we get a … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 22, 2024
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Get CSS styles using JavaScript

You should usually use each of the basic web technologies for their main purposes: HTML for the markup, CSS for the styles and JavaScript for additional interactivity. But sometimes, those things cross into each other. There might be cases, in … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 21, 2024
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Record and replay website interactions for tests

This is the final blog post on the debugging topic for this advent calendar. I reserved something special for the last one. Maybe you have something you have to test on the frontend (or backend) of your page, over and … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 20, 2024
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Accessible accordions with the details HTML element

My second last blog post on the HTML topic in this advent calendar series wants to introduce an element some of you might have used, without even knowing it. But the functionality it offers you, many might have used in … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 19, 2024
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The prefers-color-scheme media query

Today I want to talk about something, many of you probably like a lot: dark modes! Or more specifically, how to switch the color scheme to dark mode, if visitors prefer it. I do use it for my IDE and … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
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My name is Bernhard Kau. I am a PHP developer, living in Berlin and a passionate WordPress user. I code plugins as a hobby and organize WordPress events, like the Meetup in Berlin.

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