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WordPress: How to change string translations without a plugin

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Often a WordPress installation comes with a variety of different languages you can select from. And with every language you get a language file, that is basically containing the various translated strings. Most of those string translations are rather ok – but you may still want to change some of those string translations. You could […]

El Capitan: Illustrator CS5 crash on quit / eyedropper tool [fix]

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You probably found this article because you recently finally switched to El Capitan (Mac OS 10.11) just like I did – and now you find Illustrator CS5 crashing whenever you want to use the eyedropper tool or when you want to quit Illustrator. I know – this can be can be very annoying – I’ve […]

How to add a Caption to the Featured Image in WordPress

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With most themes WordPress makes it really easy to add a featured image to an article / a post or a page. But although the image caption is often added correctly to inline images, it is often missing from featured images. So how can you add a Caption to the Featured Image in WordPress easily? […]

How to copy Apple Numbers Table to WordPress Editor

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Today I have a rather specific tutorial for you: how to copy a table from Apple Numbers to the text editor of your CMS – for example WordPress? Basically you can add tables to any text editor – whatever CMS you are working with. Some have a table function already built in, some need an […]

How to check your WordPress Version easily

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Sometimes you want to install a new theme or upgrade a plugin and then you might be wondering – what wordpress version is my website actually running on? When did I update the last time? Is the theme / the plugin compatible to the version I use? You may also need your WordPress version when […]

CSS: How to jump to a differing anchor-position (vertical offset)

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The initial question was: how to jump to an anchor, but have a vertical offset of x pixels? Anchors are somthing like reptiles of webdesign – they are basically dinosaurs, but they’re still here. And they are here for a good reason: anchor links are easy to use and they do their job. You just […]

Manage display of WordPress Widgets (e.g. not on front page)

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With the so called Widgets a lot of information can be displayed in the sidebar of a WordPress website. Sometimes this can be a little bit too much information and you want to cut the number of widgets displayed. Two plugins can come in handy. The problem is actually not a problem at all: a […]