After several years it was time again. We have a new corporate identity for us, a new logo and a “different” name? Brand: We had previously communicated the jado brand with ja.do, as we assumed that this would help our customers to remember the domain www.ja.do better. Unfortunately, we were wrong here, because many visits […]
Author: Albert
Shopify not DSGVO compliant?
The cloud store system Shopify is struggling with the DSGVO in Germany. It runs some services on US servers and thus cannot be run in a legally compliant manner on the German market? In this precedent case, 5-digit sums are probably demanded and the defendant must move its customers and the store system. More info […]
Does Microsoft 365 comply with data protection?
At the latest since the video conferencing tools that our children have been allowed to try out at school in recent years, some people have been wondering whether these solutions from American companies always meet the high data protection requirements of the EU and Germany. Now, once again, there was a conference on this – […]
Allow SVG uploads in WordPress
There are cases that you need to upload SVGs to the media library in WordPress. It is possible with a small snippet that comes in the functions.php:
Hide WordPress backend menu items
To make the backend as clear as possible for customers, it is useful to hide menu items that are not used by code. This snippet goes as almost always in the functions.php of the current WordPress theme: For example, a WordPress backend could then look like this:
Computer generated images of Midjourney
My little excursion into the world of artificial intelligence. (AI generated images) I stumbled across an article about the Midjourney software and started to try out how good this AI (artificial intelligence) really is. For this reason I fed the AI while sitting at home in front of my laptop with the following words: “my […]
When is an element in the viewport
There is a relatively new way to easily see if an element is in the viewport (visible area) or not. It is a so called vanilla script, so it is pure JavaScript and does not need any external library. Now you can simply create a corresponding animation in CSS like this: Now the elements fade […]
WordPress supports WebP since version 5.8
Since the WordPress version 5.8 which was released a few days ago, there is the possibility to load WebP images into the backend. You save about 30% of data volume compared to the previously common JPG format. As with JPGs, you can integrate a code snippet via functions.php which influences the compression of the webP […]
Starter WordPress Theme from jado
The time has come, finally we found some time to work on our basic WordPress theme. Version 2.1 is finished. We have cleaned up the code (no more IE11 hacks) and added some great features (load Gutenberg via SCSS), improved performance and onsite SEO and much more. More information can be found on the WordPress […]
WordPress pages backend customize
Often we don’t need certain modules in the backend display and have to click them away again etc. There is a small snippet here to hide the certain modules, which you can insert into the functions.php: There, at the backend, the panels can be hidden like here:
Activate Gutenberg on custom post types
If you want to enable Gutenberg in Custom Post Types (CTP), you can do so with the following line: Here is just an excerpt for the line that should be added to the $args array.
Vimeo Embed fullscreen CSS
When you include Vimeo in fluid responsive designs, WordPress puts it in an iFrame that enters some absolute default dimensions. This code snippet in the CSS allows you to extend this to the full width if Gutenberg is enabled and you have included the video via the Gutenberg Vimeo block. But here it depends on […]
Gutenberg full width of content
There is an easy way to make a content block from Gutenberg run across the entire width in a theme you build yourself on WordPress. All you have to do is add this code to your functions.php: Now you can also “expand” the content blocks to the full width:
Custom widget for WordPress dashboard
Sometimes you want to provide additional info to customers in the backend. You can solve this by using a widget where you can paste HTML – the code is, as almost always, best placed in the functions.php of your current theme:
Define your own image sizes
For various scenarios there is the possibility to define own image sizes. For example, you can differentiate preview images for the mobile view and the desktop view. All you have to do is copy a snippet like this into your functions.php of your WordPress theme and adjust it: This way the image will be cropped […]
Dashicons – the icon wonder weapon of WordPress
WordPress brings a bunch of nice icons with it, a little hidden but very good to use once you enable them in functions.php for the frontend: Now you just have to create a div or span in the DOM and assign two classes there: A very nice solution here is that the icons are integrated […]