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When I was seventeen years old I co-founded a print magazine at my high school, together with some friends. That must have been in 1999. I enjoyed both the writing itself and seeing my musings published – out there for everyone to read. One of my articles was about my fierce and unstoppable love for…
The hype around the new EU-wide privacy regulation GDPR is huge and service providers with a privacy focus must be raking in that cash. One of those service providers is iubenda (referral link) who not only offer a privacy policy generator but also a inter-twined cookie banner solution. This cookie banner can be added to WordPress…
I’m using the popular Divi monster theme on a client site right now and I wanted to change the behaviour of the Blurb Module where you can combine an image or icon with a headline and some text. While the module sections allow you to change the position of the image, it does not let…
I used the Collapse-O-Matic plugin for a recent project in order to display content with a so-called accordion effect: a visitor has to click on a headline or different element to reveal more content beneath. The Collapse-O-Matic plugin stood out through its number of active installations (70,000) and by having a pretty large community around…
As of May 2018, there will be a new European data privacy law in effect. The so-called “General Data Protection Regulation”, or short GDPR, will be applicable not only to any website running on servers within the European Union but also to any websites with visitors from the EU. This post will mainly cover the…
Due to security reasons I’m blocking external HTTP requests on many of my sites through a setting in wp-config.php. See this article for further exploration on working security through wp-config.php. Here’s the setting: This measure prevents a couple of plugins – mainly premium plugins that are not available through the offical WordPress plugin repository –…
My aim was to create a grid that is automatically generated from a custom post type (CPT), and having the CPT content displayed in a modal window/popup/lightbox. I searched thoroughly through the usual blog posts and plugin recommendation lists. One plugin I came across again and again was “Media Grid“. This premium plugin that is…
Apparently, since its 4.2 update WordPress automatically converts text based smilies like “;-)” into emoji images like 😉 Besides being problematic regarding loading times (the script is loaded wether you use emojis or not) – the images might not fit the overall asthetics and design of the site while a text-only smiley might be preferred.…
I recently detected a CSS conflict in Safari when using the popular Caldera Forms plugin. While other Browsers work fine – in Safari (and Cliqz) the input that a frontend user enters into form fields is cut off so you only see the very bottom of the letters. The problem is probably the same as…