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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A breath of fresh air for the German WooCommerce community
It’s time for new impulses in the German WooCommerce community. After more than two years of pandemic and many standstills, we want to start a new Meetup. Since I started the first German-speaking WooCommerce Meetup…
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.…
Focus on accessibility
For the start of the new decade I have a new small project to announce. If you read my German WordPress newsletter WP Letter regularly, you might have noticed that I am always including articles…