complexify things or simplify things

Matt Mullenweg writes in »Simplify« I have some “grand theories” of software engineering: I think there are two tribes of engineers that complexify things or simplify things, and they are in eternal conflict. True. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

October 21, 2025 · 1 min · 51 words

Twitter Cards in WordPress

Since around mid-2012, Twitter has supported Twitter Cards. Twitter Cards are meant to give Twitter users a preview of posted links. You can present video, images, or text snippets as a preview. The following code lets WordPress users optimize their theme for Twitter Cards. First, add the following code to the function.php of your WordPress theme; once you’ve done that, you still need to apply for Cards with Twitter registrieren. ...

March 3, 2014 · 2 min · 283 words

Another new theme

Maybe you’ve noticed that over the past few days I’ve repeatedly installed and reworked new themes. I was never really satisfied, but I really like the current one. Simple yet a bit playful. Admittedly, the design is borrowed — it’s based on the design from Svbtle — but it will surely continue to change over time. There’s also a great new feature for my readers: the “Kudos” feature. You can loosely translate “kudos” as “to praise.” In short, it’s an “I like this” feature. So go on, use it. ...

June 13, 2012 · 1 min · 125 words

Images are not displayed in WordPress

I recently had the problem that when I wrote a post from the iPhone or from Windows Live Writer, the image code was broken. I had written the following HTML code: <img src=”http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/test.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”DSA00005.JPG” width=”431″ height=”284″ /> But the blog received the following: img src=”http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/test.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”DSA00005.JPG” width=”431″ height=”284″ / So all < and > were removed. I searched through several German WordPress forums, but in the end I found the solution in the official English WordPress forum. ...

May 8, 2009 · 1 min · 161 words