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  • 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
  • March 29, 2020
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Migrate a WordPress installation in less then 5 minutes

Working on a WordPress project I always develop locally. For many projects, there is also a staging server. So migrating WordPress installations is a very frequent task for me. Therefore a good process is key. Easy migrations without plugins When … Read more →

  • Posted in: WordPress
  • December 9, 2017
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Correct quotes in WordPress

Different languages use different quotation marks. In English, is usually looks like this: “…”. In Germany it looks like this: „…“. And in French they use other symbols: « … ». Correct typography is not always easy to get, especially when you … Read more →

  • Posted in: Advent calendar, Uncategorized
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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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