Helping you develop fast websites that scale. We're Steffen & Dominik, developers, friends and agency owners since 2011. Join us for hands-on tools and tactics to build and maintain large scale WordPress websites.
Join Steffen and Dominik as they dive deep into the world of WordPress content synchronization. Discover the best strategies and techniques to seamlessly migrate and synchronize your WordPress databa…
In todays episode Steffen and Dominik explore different ways to integrate WordPress into existing websites, particularly for blogs, magazines, and landing pages. You'll learn about methods like integ…
In this episode Steffen and Dominik are discussing headless and static WordPress, explaining the motivations behind using a static site generator over a traditional PHP server. While they acknowledge…
In today’s episode Steffen and Dominik are discussing content delivery networks (CDNs), with a focus on Cloudflare. CDNs are used to distribute static content to users more quickly and efficiently. H…
In this episode Steffen and Dominik discuss different options for WordPress hosting, including dedicated WordPress hosting, managed PHP hosting, VPS or root server hosting. What are the pros and cons…
Today Steffen and Dominik dive deep into the page speed factor of the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). You'll learn how to optimize your website to achieve a fast LCP and which strategies work for fle…
Is WordPress secure? We get asked this question over and over again. The answer: WordPress websites are just as secure or insecure as any other website. Because most of the time, mistakes in the abso…
In today's episode, Steffen and Dominik explore the pros and cons of deployment strategies for websites. What's the difference between continuous deployment and continuous integration? Which strategy…
In this episode, Steffen and Dominik discuss the concept of global and translatable options for WordPress websites. Components can have options that are either limited to where they are inserted, or …
In today's episode, we discuss the latest update to Google's Lighthouse tool. Version 10 introduces significant changes to the way Page Speed scores are calculated. We discuss the key features of the…
This time Steffen and Dominik reflect on coding custom designs and the challenges faced with writing CSS. To create a solid base stylesheet in combination with minimal styles for a website is an impo…
Data modeling is the process of creating a conceptual representation of your data. It's a crucial step in building effective databases and applications. In this episode we discuss why it is important…
In this episode we discuss web components and their potential to revolutionize the web. Web components have been around for a while and aim to provide a standardized way of authoring front-end JavaSc…
WordPress Starter Themes are important for custom WordPress web development. Above all, they put developer experience first and challenge the status quo of best practices. We discuss the differences …
It's still a complicated task to optimize images for different devices, screen sizes, and pixel densities. In this episode we discuss the challenges of creating perfect responsive images and explore …
Jared is the author of Timber, a powerful development library for WordPress with more than 1 million downloads. Jared started his career working at newspapers. He and his partners saw the importance …
Let's dive into the hotly-anticipated arrival of container queries! We’ll discuss whether it’s worth jumping on them now, what strategies you can follow, and the potential pitfalls to watch out for, …
JavaScript can add significant weight to a website and is hard to optimize. JavaScript hydration concepts can significantly optimize JavaScript loading, parsing, and execution. We talk about the vari…
As a WordPress agency, we have decided not to use Gutenberg, the block editor for WordPress. When it was first introduced, we were excited about the potential improvements it offered over the classic…
Everyone is talking about ChatGPT right now, just like us. What are our first experiences with the AI tool? How will it affect coding challenges in the developer application process? And how do we ev…