Simon Kraft
WordPress community advocate, product manager, and author.
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All posts →Beautiful Belgrade
In September, I had the joy of visiting Serbia again. It’s been a minute for me – WordCamp Europe 2018 – so I was really curious to see the city again, see what changed, and most of all get to meet the Serbian WordPress community once more. Unpolished and beautiful I vividly remember…
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WordPress Authors²
Our second book with Rheinwerk Verlag is coming out these days. In the revised and significantly updated “WordPress 7 – Das umfassende Handbuch”, Flo Brinkmann and I once again turn our attention, as we did with last year’s edition, to a comprehensive guide to the popular content management system. And yes, it’s still “just” in German, sorry. More…
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Europe’s beating heart
Another WordCamp Europe in the books. And after getting some rest and reflecting on the event, I could almost not be happier with how it went. The 2026 edition was held in Kraków, and once again it was a blast. Those of you not closely familiar with the WordPress ecosystem must know upfront:…
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What happens at Europa-Park should not stay at Europa-Park
The CloudFest hackathon is intense. Three packed days of work and creativity at Europa-Park. This year I had the honor to come on as one of three project mentors. That still feels a bit odd to say. The hackathon has been a fixed part of my yearly schedule for many years now. So I’m…
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Making the Open Source World more secure
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about leaving my previous job to pursue some new and exciting opportunities. Well, it’s time I tell you what I’ve been up to recently. Wait a second, what exactly is it you’ve been doing before? That’s a question I’ve been getting a lot since… well since…
Read the post →Face-Off
My current avatar has been in service since 2016. Back in the day, we asked the incredibly talented Florian Ziegler to be our photographer for WordCamp Frankfurt. And oh boy, he did! To this day, I think of these photos as some of the coolest shots of any WordCamp ever. I vividly remember telling…
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Ending a chapter
Today, I kicked things off with a nice cup of tea, sat down at my desk, and had my last call as an employee at group.one. I’ve been a Senior Product Manager for group.one’s WordPress products for more than two years and had the pleasure of working with some of the most amazing people there, making some lifelong…
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Mini Plugin for Minimalism
I might be the most reluctant SEO plugin user in the known universe. I got to appreciate the craft of people doing actual search engine optimisation over the last couple of years, but in general I cannot be bothered.
For quite some time, I’m also a user of The SEO Framework, a rather minimal SEO plugin for WordPress. It was just released in version 5.2 and only had a single thing that mildly annoyed me: the SEO Bar it added to a post types overview table was a bit to “loud” for my taste. So today I fixed it with the smallest of plugins, reskinning a lovely feature to make it feel a bit more native to the WordPress GUI. Meet Quiet SEO Bar. It’s basically just a couple of lines of CSS in a trench coat.
Time to pitch your CloudFest Hackathon project!
We started preparing CloudFest Hackathon 2027 and I’m back on the team as one of the project mentors. 🎉
And to get things going we opened the call for projects last week. If you want to be leading one of the ten projects at the hackathon in March 2027, now’s the time to pitch your idea. Let me know if you have any questions.
Ready for WordCamp Mannheim
I’ll bring my Impossible WordPress Quiz to WordCamp Mannheim tonight!
Productive Procrastinating
I should be working on the slides for my new talk about cute non-commercial websites in the age of AI. But I’m not – I’ve got a whole week till the talk’s premiere at WordCamp Mannheim after all. 😅
Instead I’m building a plugin to help with my /now page.
WordCamp Portugal 2026
The first time spending some time in Porto after #WCEU in 2022 was really special. Meeting many old friends as well as some new ones and enjoying one of the coolest little cities in Europe. Oh and I gave a fun little talk about #CRA.
Obrigado!
