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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →