Posts from the category WordPress
WordPress is a web-browser-based content management system, which started life as a spin-off of b2/cafelog before becoming the most widespread CMS in the world. I began giving support during the early development of WordPress’ predecessor b2/cafelog in 2001, and I’ve built personal and professional sites using WordPress for over sixteen years. I’m currently a partner and developer at Swiss WordPress agency Say Hello.
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Since the release of WordPress 5.2, authors and editors can put together their own reusable content components without needing to do any programming work. This is thanks to a powerful combination of Reusable Blocks and the Group Block.
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Using CSS variables through the WordPress Theme Customizer to make custom colour schemes in the Gutenberg Editor.
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Photos from the annual WordPress conference – the biggest in the world in 2019.
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How I use WordPress’ template part logic, but additionally pass scoped data to the template part.
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WordPress’ Gutenberg Editor allows you to do much more than create and edit content in a single content column.
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The user experience nicety of a legible date string.
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I’ve been using WordPress since the very first version and love it. In a talk at WordCamp Zurich, I shared some of the experiences I’ve gained as a CMS developer, website builder, content manager and blogger since the late 1990s.
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This website turns thirteen today.
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How to create your own Gutenberg block with only a full or wide alignment option, instead of the usual possibilities.
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Using a website visitor’s browser settings to seamlessly display content in a language they can understand.
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The farewell photo of my fourth office desk in Switzerland, before I start afresh in the Bernese Oberland.
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Some people believe that WordPress isn’t suitable for more than a simple website. Throughout my career, I’ve proved that assumption wrong many times over.
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I’m moving to Swiss web agency Say Hello as partner, client consultant and full-stack developer from January 2019.
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How I swapped out individual sections of a high-traffic site to make best use of WordPress’ REST API.
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I presented at the WordCamp conference in Lausanne a couple of weeks ago, on the subject of website usability. The video of my talk is now online.
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How I quickly implemented a splash page for Sulzer Schmid Laboratories, containing an autoplaying HTML5 video.
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I’m presenting at WordCamp Lausanne at the end of September. Come and hear me talk about user interfaces and usability, and get your questions answered too.
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I was recently set the task of integrating a Mailchimp mailing list to a WordPress website by way of a multi-step Gravity Form. The regular form fields were easy to link, but the interest groups needed a bit more research. Alongside regular list fields, you can add an interest group, so that subscribers can indicate […]
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The major update of WordPress, scheduled for this year, will contain a brand-new and much-improved editor.
