Category: Testcases

This week I switched security plugins. The last thing I still had to turn on was two-factor authentication. One switch. I turned it on, clicked save, and it jumped back to off. With the message that the REST API was blocked.

I wanted to add one color to the palette of this site. A one-minute job, which I left to my AI assistant. It refused: if it saved that, all the Additional CSS of the site would disappear. I did not believe it. Surely an administrator can simply change the colors of his own site?

The admin of a client’s WooCommerce site had felt slow for months. Not the front end, because visitors get a ready-made page from the cache there. It was the work behind the scenes: editing products, opening the dashboard, checking how a page looks while logged in. Every click took a few seconds, sometimes much more.

A quick tip for anyone working on a local copy of a site.

Since 2021 this site ran on a classic theme with a few effects I still like. In the big title, a few random letters turn gold every couple of seconds. The menu lies transparently over the large photo. And when you point at a menu item, a light panel slides in behind it. When switching…

For the new version of this site I wanted to keep the fonts of the old one: Playfair Display for headings, Mulish for text. In the Ollie block theme you install them with a single command, and WordPress then hosts them itself. No connection to Google needed anymore.

Duplicator, the well-known WordPress backup plugin, released version 5.0 on 22 September. The big news: the plugin can now work together with AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT. I tried it the same evening on my test site, together with Claude Code.