What’s under the hood of Tay-Tay’s new website? And does the megastar have a soft spot for open source? A teardown from a WordPress perspective.
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The quest for the right WordPress membership plugin
Running into a dead end once again: I need to build a membership website for a pretty straight-forward scencario, but I can’t find the right plugin solution.
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WPML vs. SEOPress: Fixing a Home Page 301 Redirection Error
Sometimes, these plugins just don’t wanna play nice with each other. Here’s a quick fix.
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How to Customize the Look of the Privacy Policy by iubenda
The styles that come with the embedded text from iubenda are pretty ugly. Let’s change that! This tutorial shows you how to adapt them to your WordPress theme.
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How can WordPress professionals support the fight against COVID-19?
The pandemic has the world in a tight grip. Are WordPress skills of any use? Sure they are! Find out how…
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“The Tech Pledge” – a translation to German
In September 2019, at the Techfestival in Copenhagen, an impromptu think-tank consisting of 150 people from more than 40 countries created The Tech Pledge, an “technologists’ oath for responsible tech”. See the announcement here, and read the Pledge here. While I very much welcome this initiative and was glad to sign it – until today, only…
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The new Sussexroyal.com website through the WordPress lens
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made quite a big splash this week by announcing they would “step back from senior roles in the royal family”. I gladly leave all the implications and interpretations of this decision for others to discuss – but there is one detail that was interesting to me: “Meghan Markle and…
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Review: LanguageTool, an alternative to Grammarly
When I wrote my first post on 200wordsaday.com, I realized that a grammar and spell checking tool would be really helpful in speeding up the editing process and improving my non-native English writing skills at the same time. The Top Dog: Grammarly Grammarly has been heavily advertised all over the web recently – at least…
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A Quick Review of FacesOfAuschwitz.com
Today, I read an interview with Marina Amara, a Brazilian photo colorist who founded the project “Faces of Auschwitz”. The interview is part of a series called “Success Stories” on the website of Automattic, the company of WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. The project aims to establish an individual perspective to the anonymous and incomprehensible number…
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Deporting Veterans – another not-so surprising US hypocrisy?
Today, I read a Member Feature Story on Medium.com by Robert A Stribley with the simple title “We Deport Veterans”. Stribley lives in New York and actually works as an UX designer by day but has written quite extensively on issues such as immigration, privacy and security. Stribly describes how the United States deports foreign-born…