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 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 …
- Plugins Event Organiser – Simple Event Announcements Plenty of solutions are available to announce events on a WordPress website. Some offer sophisticated integrations with external services, others work with plugins like WooCommerce, and some include a whole suite of features like …
- Plugins FakerPress – Example Content on Demand Anyone building and running a website for personal use will rarely face the need to generate example content. However, those who occasionally build websites for clients or even need to showcase their …
- Plugins Snow Fall – WordPress Powder Honestly? I’m not a big fan of snowfall animations on websites. However, a festive plugin that does exactly that has spontaneously made its way onto our Advent calendar list. This plugin by …