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 →
In my last blog post I wrote about how to create a simple landing page template. In the text I’ve also mentioned, that you might want to create a custom navigation for the pages you create using this page template. … Read more →
A new client is using multiple WordPress plugins to create “landing pages”. Some of these plugins have been removed from the plugin directory. They will not receive any (security) update in the future. In a call it became clear, that … Read more →
WordPress 5.8 is only a little more than two weeks away. Probably the biggest new feature is the introduction of Full Site Editing (FSE). This will enable you to edit the whole website with the block editor. But this will … 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 →
This week one of my colleagues was working on a new project, where a page template in the parent theme was broken. There was a better similar page template to use instead, but there might still be the chance that … Read more →
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 →
A new year, a new blogging project. Torsten Landsiedel restarted the idea of blogging more regularily. But instead of one blog post per week, he reduced it to one new blog post every two weeks, as well as one comment … Read more →
A friend asked me on how to show the home page with the latest blog posts as a grid instead of a list. I though a bit about how I would solve it and as I haven’t used CSS Flexbox … Read more →
For a blog I use the Thematic Theme. It provides the basis for own so-called Child Themes and can be customized in many ways. In addition to the normal WordPress actions and filters Thematic provides its own Theme Action Hooks … Read more →