WordPress

I’ve been creating websites with WordPress since the first version in 2003 and professionally since 2006.

WordPress projects are the main focus of my professional career and I contribute to the community as a theme and plugin developer, translation editor and WordCamp speaker and co-organizer. My open-source plugins are currently being used on over 20,000 websites.

I am currently developing and managing website projects and API integrations at Say Hello, supporting clients directly and providing technical and conceptual support to partner agencies.

Conference presentations

I have presented at WordCamp events in Switzerland several times, sharing my experience and design review techniques.

There’s more to life than WordPress

WordCamp Zurich, 2019

How to get your visitors where they need to be

WordCamp Lausanne, 2018

How to get your visitors up a mountain

WordCamp Bern, 2017

Modular Functionality – Organizing Your Code To Make WordPress Development Easier

WordCamp Geneva, 2016

All WordCamp presentations

Programming and design

I’ve either conceived, designed, developed or collaborated on the following projects as part of my work for my employers.

Single-page application using the WordPress REST API and React

Deep integration of custom Gutenberg blocks using React, Advanced Custom Fields and custom web components

Screenshot of flugbasis.ch — Concept, design and programming of a website with course management and external CRM data synchronisation

Custom website design and programming for an online shop

Screenshot of the Sportamt Bern website — Speed enhancements of dynamic frontend elements using the WordPress REST API

Blog posts about WordPress

Storing credentials securely in WordPress plugin settings

3rd March 2023

If you’re writing a plugin which needs to connect to a third-party service, there’s a relatively high chance that you’ll need to store credentials securely.
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Automating visual comparison checks of your website

13th February 2023

Using a third-party service to compare your website before and after a technical update.
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Block Patterns and Block Variations of the Query Loop

8th February 2023

Block Patterns, Block Variations and Reusable Blocks. How and why they’re useful and implementable.
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Updated Gutenberg category selector

27th January 2023

Building a single-selection category selector for WordPress Gutenberg using React.
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Using useSelect in Gutenberg to fetch data from the REST API

12th January 2023

A simpler alternative to wrapping a Gutenberg edit component with a higher-order component.
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Building a multilingual WordCamp website

1st December 2022

How I used manual content structuring and the power of the WordPress Site Editor to set up what we believe to be the first non-plugin-based multilingual WordCamp website.
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Easier alternative string translation using Advanced Custom Fields

25th August 2022

There are several translation plugins in the WordPress ecosystem, each of which has its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to translating and managing multilingual content. There is also the brilliant plugin Loco Translate, which I’ve been using for a very long time to translate English strings in plugins and themes. (Usually German, French and […]
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Using data stores to get custom user capabilities in WordPress

11th August 2022

Finding out custom user capabilities via the REST API, to determine whether or not to add a custom sidebar in the Gutenberg block editor.
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All blog posts about WordPress