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 Git Updater – Independent Updates for Plugins and Themes In recent weeks, the suspension of the WordPress update infrastructure for WP Engine, a WordPress hosting company, has been the dominant topic in the WordPress community. In this context, decentralized update options …
- Plugins Create Block Theme – entering a new world Since the beginning of the Full Site Editor, the next generation of themes has been waiting for its moment to rise. In addition to the old themes, which we now call Classic …
- Plugins WP Crontrol – Debugging and time travel WordPress and various plugins schedule certain events for the future. Be it the check for new updates, the execution of a backup, or the website status check. The WP Crontrol plugin by …
- Plugins Image Source Control – Where Did This Image Come From Again? My school was pretty progressive and had a relatively extensive website, even back in the day during my school years. The principal created it using pure HTML. He updated it several times …
- Plugins Koko Analytics – Tracking Without Privacy Concerns Everyone who runs a website or even a blog would like to know if people are actually consuming their content. If you don’t want to go overboard and use a tool like …
- Plugins Fewer Tags – Taking an Axe to the Content Forest I am a big fan of small plugins that run quietly in the background of my websites and make them better. And today’s plugin, Fewer Tags, fits perfectly into this category.
- Plugins Autoblue – Experimental Social Media Plugin Since the decline of Twitter, the social media landscape has become much more fragmented. While I have been happily active in the Fediverse for several years and plan on keeping it like …
- Plugins Find My Blocks – Keeping Track of All Your Blocks While preparing for this series of posts, I asked for plugin recommendations in a post on the fediverse. As expected, there were some real surprises among them. One of those is today’s featured …
- Plugins Protect Login – More Lightweight Login Security For years, I used Limit Login Attempts on all my websites to make it harder for potential attackers to brute-force their way into my login page. The original developer discontinued the plugin, which was …
- Plugins Preferred Languages – A Sensible Approach to Translations Every text string for WordPress core, plugins, and themes must be translated if an admin decides to run a non-English website. For the WordPress core and the vast majority of plugins and …