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  • May 27, 2023
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20 years of WordPress – My personal journey

I usually write a blog post on 20 June each year to celebrate the birthday of this blog. But today I want to celebrate #WP20 with you, the 20th birthday of our beloved open source software. No longer a teenager … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • October 16, 2022
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Run your custom code only once in an action

WordPress offers a lot of hooks you can use to interact with code. Filters are used to change a value of a passed variable, and you usually want to change this value every time this filter is applied. But for … Read more →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • April 15, 2022
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Overcome the “ERROR 1153” when importing large databases

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 →

  • Posted in: Database
  • April 3, 2022
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How to remove the “update lock” after a broken WordPress update

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 →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • February 27, 2022
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Volunteering at a WordCamp

Today’s blog post is a personal one and a call for people from the community. I want to talk about my experiences volunteering at a WordCamp. My very first volunteering experience came quite late. I’ve attended my first WordCamp in … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordCamp
  • January 2, 2022
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2022: An eventful year

I usually don’t post “New Years” blog posts – I usually only have a post on the blog’s birthday – but as it’s still the last calendar week of 2021, and I’m unsure if I have to post something for … Read more →

  • Posted in: Misc
  • December 18, 2021
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Using Block Patterns for new entries of a Custom Post Type

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 →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • December 5, 2021
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Debugging PHP functions in WordPress

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 →

  • Posted in: Web development
  • November 7, 2021
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Overwriting the “Register” link

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 →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • May 24, 2020
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Block external requests for faster local development

I always develop sites locally. My local environment is using Docker, which I will probably cover in an upcoming blog post series. Sometimes I’m experiencing really long request times, especially in the WordPress backend. As I also usually use the … 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 passionated WordPress user. I code plugins as a hobby and organize WordPress events, like the Meetup in Berlin.

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