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  • Install and activate ImageMagick PHP extension in Windows

    There are many guides for this, but most of them are complicated or do not work for me. The simplest solution in my eyes is as follows: Install Imagick for Windows. Get the Installation package from here and install as usual. Download the right package (concerning php version, architecture, thread safety) from here. The link…

  • Enable xdebug in xampp php8 environement

    Maybe you updated your php version from 7 to 8 and you had installed xdebug with your old php version. Now it is missing because in the official download of php it isn’t included. Go to the download page of xdebug and look out for the right newest version concerning thread safety and architecture. If…

  • Update PHP Version in xampp (from 7.X to 8.X)

    Determine which version, architecture and thread safety mode. Open a terminal window and type $ php -i|find “PHP Version” In my case php 8 is already installed and running so it gives me PHP Version => 8.1.6 $ php -i|find “Thread Safety” Thread Safety => enabled $ php -i|find “Architecture” Architecture => x64 But the…

  • Strato and it’s Security

    Some of my clients do such incredible things as using Strato as their webhoster. I can’t understand that because there are so much webhosters with resonable offers out there in the world. Today I stumbled over an interesting behavoir: After some changes in a user account my browser prompted me to download the profile.php. Okay…

  • DeepL automatic translations

    Deepl is a great tool to translate texts into other languages. The translations are precise and Deepl is able to deal with linguistic nuances and meanings quite well. All in all, the translations are almost perfect. In short: Optimal for solving automatic translations with a plugin. Look out: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45937616/using-deepl-api-to-translate-text more to come in the next weeks.…

  • CSS Hover Effects

    While searching for css hover effects I came across this site: https://www.developerdrive.com/2015/01/8-simple-css-hover-effects/ As the title says: simple – but very useful as starting point to discover effects and inventing own stuff.

  • Useful: Set templates for all WordPress pages programatically

    Come across this little snippet while I’m searching for a solution to change all page templates from default to a custom one. I didn’t want to change the default template in general either change the page template itself – but only change the template setting for all pages yet created. This solutions rewrites all post…

  • Polylang Copy Updated

    Polylang Copy is now in version 1.1.0. Goto Bitbucket and get the new version. I’ve just added support for automatic translations! From now on you can decide if you like to translate only certain posts or pages in a particular language or switch to auto mode. Then every new created post or page will be…

  • New Free WP Plugin: Polylang Copy

    Sometimes work is boring and inefficient. While I was working on the relaunch of ClientSolutions website I had the idea to make copying of posts and pages to other languages more easy. If you use Polylang (thanks for this great plugin) for translating your wordpress page too, you maybe interested in using my little plugin. It will add…

  • Developer Tools: Debug :hover etc. in Chrome

    Did you ever try to get a css style for a hovered or active button or link? Today I tried to figure out, why the bootstrap btn-success don’t accepts my :active state style. Searching for a way to get this brings me to the simple solution: Open developer tools in chrome (ctrl-shift-i or F12), select…