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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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KrautPress Musings

For some time now, I’ve been thinking about how to scale KrautPress up a little. Back in 2016, I started this wonky German WordPress magazine called KrautPress. Over the years, it saw many contributors come and go. Some wrote just a post or two; others were true powerhouses, churning out high-quality content left…

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A true WordPress page-turner

While I took a few days off this week, the first copies of a very orange-colored book hit the shelves here in Germany. We celebrate the official release of our book “WordPress  6 – Das umfassende Handbuch” (The Comprehensive Guide). But let’s start from the beginning.

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Less crappy Twitter embeds please!

WordPress has allowed embedding third-party content in posts and on pages for ages. In the classic editor, it was possible to simply paste a link to a popular external service like Twitter, Soundcloud, YouTube, etc. Using a clever format called oEmbed, WordPress could retrieve the linked content from the respective platforms and embed…

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