This week, I was asked for help setting up Xdebug with PhpStorm on a Linux laptop in combination with Docker. I might write about that in an upcoming blog post, but today, I want to focus on different methods to … 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 →
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 →
In the previous blog posts, I have shown you how to add a marker for a GPS coordinate to an SVG image. In this case, we calculated the x/y pixel position and have drawn an SVG circle or marker path. … Read more →
This blog post will be a start of a little post series. For a project, I recently had to add markers of cities to a map of Germany. I did that manually in the past, but as the maps has … Read more →
Last week, I got a report about a broken site, that caught me a bit by surprise. I’ll recreate the issue with a dummy plugin here, so show what went wrong. When navigating to the page with the error, this … Read more →
If you code in PHP, changes are very high that you are using composer to manage your dependencies. At one point, you will add a dependency. The version you’ve first installed can be updated with a single command, but it … Read more →
If you have ever set up a server yourself, you probably realized, that the default values for PHP don’t really work for modern websites. The upload_max_filesize is set to only 2 MB, which means that you cannot upload anything into … 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 →
I regularly maintain about 40 WordPress websites. Updating plugins and themes can cause issue, but updating core usually goes without any issue. Not so this week on a new website I updated for the first time. After the core update … Read more →