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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Recently I had to fix a bunch of really annoying problems with this combination. Duplicated contents, automatically inserted line breaks and problems with the custom styles for TinyMCE really caused me to hate these Plugins. The reason for most of the problems is qTranslate though. If you experience similar problems, the following “library” will be […]

Recently, when working on a WordPress website for a huge amount of users, a customer was unsatisfyied with the WordPress backend search for users. The default backend search only is searching for your search string in usernames, but not for first name, last name or email of users.   As most WordPress projects are barely […]