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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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 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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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…
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Aspirations of a young writer
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…