Simon Kraft
WordPress has been a part of Simons live since 2008. If he is not podcasting, blogging or... newslettering(?) about WordPress you might find him in his day job at a European hosting company.
Latest from Simon
- Plugins Form Block – Forms the Way They Should Be It’s no coincidence that a contact form plugin is among the oldest plugins on WordPress.org. Many websites, whether small blogs or large corporate sites, sooner or later need a contact form. That’s …
- Plugins Accessibility Checker – The Little Helper for Accessibility 2025 will be the year of accessibility. Regulations will be enacted in the EU in early summer, initially targeting online shop operators. However, the topic will become more prominent regardless, which is …
- Plugins Progress Planner – Let’s make Blogging Fun Again From a painful experience here at KrautPress, I can confirm that setting up a blog isn’t hard. Sticking with it consistently, however, is. This is exactly where today’s plugin comes into play: …
- Plugins WebAuthn Provider for Two Factor – The Future of Login? Years ago, I wrote an article for the KrautPress Advent calendar about the Two Factor plugin. This plugin, designed to enhance login security, remains a standard feature in every WordPress installation I …
- Plugins Picu – Photo Proofing in WordPress There’s a plugin I’ve been following the development of for years, though. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no use case for it. While I still toy around with the idea of switching careers …
- Plugins Real Cookie Banner – Consent Management, Done Right To track your website’s visitors and gather their personal data, obtaining their consent is key. Since the introduction of the GDPR in 2018, this has become a part of daily life for …
- Plugins Editorial Calendar – Content Overview Editorial Calendar – Content Overview If you run a blog with many posts, perhaps even authored by multiple contributors, it’s easy to lose track. Today’s plugin, Editorial Calendar, is here to help.
- Plugins Maintenance Mode for WordPress – Making Waiting Easy Maintenance Mode for WordPress – Making Waiting Easy If you’re working on a website, you might not want others to see it during that early time. However, working on a server and …
- Plugins Open Graph – Metadata for Social Media and More Out of the box, WordPress is surprisingly bad at equipping posts and pages with sufficient metadata. But, of course, there are appropriate plugins to address this. While many large SEO plugins include …
- Plugins User Switching – See WordPress Through Someone Else’s Eyes WordPress behaves differently for logged-in users than for those who merely pass by. So far, nothing groundbreaking. However, even among logged-in users, there can be differences in various aspects of a website. …