One of the questions I hear a lot in different settings is this: “Which plugin do you use on every site?”. I usually don’t have an answer for that, since in my opinion, there is no “mandatory plugin”. But one … Read more →
In a project I’m working on, I made an interesting discovery this week. The website had only two comments – it’s a WooCommerce shop, so comments are not really important. Those two comment however were made on an attachment page. … Read more →
After writing a blog post in the 24 days before Christmas, I took the month of January off to get some new energy and collect some more and other topics to write about. Since I’m currently preparing for an accessibility … Read more →
Note: This blog post was first published in German only on 24 January 2016. I’ve only translated it on 29 December 2024, updated some things in text and also created new screenshots. The solution presented in this blog post still … Read more →
Since I have stopped my current project with the new theme, I am now allowing myself to blog about other topics again. This week, I want to write about an important global HTML attribute: the lang attribute. Maybe some of … Read more →
If you are reading this blog post, you probably came across this issue yourself. You try to set the slug of a page (or other post type), and WordPress is appending a “-2” suffix to the slug. You are searching … Read more →
At the last WP Meetup Potsdam, which was a casual meeting for some food, drinks and talks, one of the new attendees asked a question that sounded easy, but for which we had different answers: How can I migrate all … Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →