Today a little post about myself: I was speaker at Wordcamp Vienna 2020. It was my first talk in front of a huge audience and therefore definitely a challenge. Anyway I a am proud that I have done it and the message was recieved by the audience quite well. I had to speak in the […]

A little bit of advertising for my new Plugin “Simple User Locking” which I have just released to the WordPress plugin repository. It has just passed the security audit by the WordPress plugin team and is not publicly available and free for everybody.

qTranslate is a great multilanguage Plugin for WordPress. It is fast and easy. For many of my projects from 2012-2017 I have chosen it over WPML or multisite multilanguage as it is super fast and easy. Then the author suddenly has disappeared without a Word tens of thousands of WordPress sites have been affected. One […]

Sometimes when moving a WordPress installation to another Webhost if cloning the database and the files and even if the domain is the same you may get the error “Too many redirects”. This usually happens if the configuration of the new server environment is different from the old one. In many cases the problem is that […]

Without any doubt it is important for every website to be as fast as possible in order to save bandwith, visitors time and in terms of SEO. As I recently had to optimize various WordPress websites regarding their page speed delivery here is what I did. Getting to know your current website performance First of […]

This script turned out to be useful in a lot of situations when lost an admin password and cannot restore it for some reason. Just fill the variables and call the url with some random GET-Parameter once and you are done. // insert a new administrator // add_action(‘init’,’check_insert’); function check_insert() { if(isset($_GET[“jio8”]) && $_GET[“jio8″]==”u7dd”) { $newusername […]

TinyMCE is the standard WordPress visual editor and it might be the best choice for a lot of WordPress websites. Unfortunatly it always required some time and a lot of knowledge to customize and style it to your needs. Using this following Plugin will reduce this problem.   Clients tend to get crazy if they have […]

As it is happens quite often that the rich editor of WordPress is a barrier concerning posts including difficult HTML, I wrote a Plugin. I am planning to release an improved version to the WordPress Plugin repository soon, but I think this works quite well for now:   // Deactivate Visual Editor if option is […]

The automatic upgrade function of WordPress is usefull for most bloggers, as they always are reminded to keep WordPress and its extensions up to date. Anyhow, it can be very annoying for developers when customers and end-user make updates by their own, usually destroying something. It is often recomendable to disable this notifications: Sometimes a […]

Update: There was a short intverview regarding this Plugin by expertentesten.de: https://www.expertentesten.de/news/interview-david-stoeckl-custom-header-images-plugin/(language is german). Why does WordPress need another Header Images Plugin? Really, there are a lot of Plugins for this purpose so why did I have to write another one? The answer is: All these plugins have a lot of code, it is hard […]