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  • July 18, 2021
  • 2 comments

Exclude first page from Gravity Forms progress bar

When we have to create more complex forms, we often use the Gravity Forms plugins. In one project, we wanted to use it to implement a form with multiple steps, each only having one radio group. Users should see the … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • May 23, 2021
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Why you should not put theme code in plugins

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 →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • September 6, 2020
  • 2 comments

Manually update or downgrade plugins and themes with WordPress 5.5

The lastest WordPress major release 5.5 was released mid August. There have been some nice new features. But one of these new features has not been mentioned in many posts about the new release. It’s the possibility to replace an … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • August 23, 2020
  • 2 comments

Order post type navigation by name

On many client projects, there is a need to create custom post types. I usually create them using the wp scaffold post-type command from the WP-CLI. This will create the necessary PHP functions with the most common definitions and a … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • December 5, 2017
  • 0 comments

Insert shortcodes into sidebar widgets

Shortcode can be very useful, when you want to insert dynamic content into a static page or a post. WordPress is offering some internal shortcodes such as the shortcode (which is usually rendered in the backend). By default, shortcodes can … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 4, 2017
  • 1 comment

How to handle closed plugins from the directory

I am pretty sure that everyone of you is using plugins from the official directory. All of those plugins are reviewed before they went live and if they haven’t been updated in the last two years, you can’t find them … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 3, 2017
  • 1 comment

Enable multisite admins to add custom CSS

This blog runs on a multisite, so I can easily translate all my blost posts using MultilingualPress. Another website on this multisite installation is the website for WP Meetup Berlin. On this site, another user has the admin role. With … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • December 2, 2017
  • 0 comments

Remove the WordPress.org link in the meta widget

WordPress comes with a lot of widgets bundled in core. One of this widgets is the meta widget. When you install a fresh copy of WordPress, this widget is usually put into the main widget area. Most users remove this … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar
  • September 18, 2017
  • 0 comments

Show tags of private posts in the tag cloud

No WordCamp last weekend, so today, you get a regular post 😉 This week, I had an interesting request in a client project. The WordPress website had a FAQ section and some of the questions were set as private posts. … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • July 16, 2017
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Fixing broken plugin translation in WPML

This week in a project, I had the issue, that for plugin was not loaded in the correct language. The project war multilingual with three languages. The default language was German, one of the other two languages was English. Usually … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
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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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