Wordpress – Marc Chiroiu

Experimenting with WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE): A Journey of Rediscovery

Wordpress / November 21, 2024

As a web designer with over a decade of experience, I’ve witnessed WordPress evolve in remarkable ways. Recently, I decided to revisit Full Site Editing (FSE)—a feature that felt buggy and underdeveloped when it was first introduced. My goal was to see how far FSE has come, using my latest project, spiritswithoutspirits.com, as a test case. […]

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Problems with Safari, WordPress and the update button

MacOS, Snippets, Wordpress / October 1, 2024

After upgrading to MacOS Sequoia and the most recent Safari version 18.0 (20619.1.26.31.6) the classic wordpress editor is broken. The big problem is: you can’t hit the upgrade button anymore as the bottom widget column is overlapping the one on the right. This occurs only when using the classic editor and Gutenberg is not affected.

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Reduce spam in Contact Form 7 without ReCaptcha

Wordpress / August 12, 2020

Contact Form 7 is one of the best form plugins. It’s versatile, developer friendly, extensible and completely free. Yes there are more “easy” solutions but I found them more complicated in the long run. If you are comfortable with reading some docs, working with shortcodes and customizing the styles via CSS CF7 can handle most

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How to remove the WordPress logo from the admin bar

Snippets, Wordpress / February 24, 2020

By default WordPress displays it’s logo on the far left site of the admin bar with some quick links to WordPress, documentation, news, etc. As I don’t use them and sometimes click there by accident I usually remove them from my websites. Also it’s less confusing for clients or editors if they have access to

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How to replace Google Maps with Open Streetmap in WordPress

Wordpress / February 13, 2020

Google Maps is an amazing service but there are a couple of reasons you might not want to use it on your website. Back in the day ease-of-use was perfect but at some point Google wanted you to use API keys so they can make money of websites with millions of users (which is totally

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Disable month- / year-based uploads on wordpress multisite

Wordpress / January 30, 2020

By default wordpress organises uploaded media into month- and year-based folders. Probably a relict from when it was mostly used as a blogging tool. You can disable this easily enough under Settings > Media. On a WordPress Multisite installation there is no such option. You have to change the setting on the network page itself

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Adding code to your theme header with functions.php

Wordpress / October 29, 2019

Sometimes you simply want to add a line or two in your themes header.php without actually modifying it. Modifying it directly is seldom advisable. Even in a child theme you need to keep track of changes you made in case the parents header.php changes too much – after an update for example. The solution is

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