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Keeping WordPress fast and secure starts with the PHP version your site runs on. WordPress now officially supports PHP 8.3 as it crossed the adoption threshold. It’s the perfect moment to upgrade and benefit from the improvements.
In June 2025 the European Accessibility Act (EAA) came into full effect, making web accessibility a legal requirement for many businesses. But what does this mean for your website? And why is accessibility more than just a box to tick?
Mapbox already offers great-looking 3D maps out of the box, but sometimes you need something more specific to tell your story. In this post, I show how I built and integrated a custom 3D model using Three.js to highlight a unique landmark and create a more immersive experience.
Most developers will try to build their own tools and project boilerplates at some time in their career. And so did I, aiming for my ideal dev setup with bleeding edge technologies. This is my story of the struggles I faced along the way and how Flynt became my default choice for developing WordPress websites.
Ever wanted to create your own chatbot but felt overwhelmed by the complexity? That’s why I built SiegfriedAI – a sleek Node.js script that makes it easy to create and load custom GPT-4 chat agents. Learn how to use it and make it your own!
Making WordPress post archives interactive has never been easier. Learn how to implement HTMX for real-time AJAX filtering and seamless page transitions, all while keeping your site lightning-fast and performant.
Balancing text lines in a responsive layout used to be hard. But no longer! With text-wrap: balance, automatic text composition is coming to the browser. Learn its limitations, browser support, and get a first look at its new sibling, text-wrap: pretty.
Making modals used to be hard and complicated, not anymore! Things got a whole lot easier once the dialog element came into play. In this article you’ll learn how to create reusable modals with the native dialog HTML element.
At Bleech, we are thrilled to announce the release of our new Figma Design Kit for Flynt. This comprehensive toolkit is designed to empower designers and developers to create stunning layouts and components, while streamlining the web development process.
The WordPress Starter Theme comes with a perfect Google PageSpeed score, WCAG 2.1 accessibility, SEO best practices and an intuitive editing interface with Gutenberg support. It’s now easier to develop custom themes faster – all while improving the user experience for your visitors and editors.
Repairing a hacked website is probably one of the rarest tasks for developers – but a very important one. In order to be able to react quickly and competently in case of emergency, we have compiled our experiences in the following comprehensive guide.
The nightmare of all website owners: your website gets hacked. The signs are sometimes obvious, but sometimes so subtle that the problem goes unnoticed for weeks. Learn more about the warning signs to respond quickly to the hacker attack.
Find out why filtering pages based on specific criteria improves the UX of your website and how to use URL params and the WP_Query to create a WordPress friendly approach to filtering.
It’s usually only a matter of time before a website becomes unbearably slow due to new features, extensions and tracking snippets. We tackle the issue at its root and guide you to optimise the website load time!
Google’s Lighthouse tool has been updated to version 10 in early 2023, and includes important changes to the way page speed scores are calculated. On closer inspection, we’ve noticed that the mobile device used for testing has changed. This change hasn’t been…
Usually, website security only comes into focus when it is already too late and hackers have penetrated a website. We therefore want to focus more on the topic of website hacking. In this article, we present measures that, in our experience, help to better protect your website from hackers.
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An unstable website is more prone to security threats and can even damage your brand reputation. Let’s look at five ways to make your WordPress website safer and more stable.
VRTs – Visual Regression Tests is live! The plugin is now available on WordPress. Check out how it works and install it on your website to start tracking website changes.
Bleech goes Podcast! Our Bleech team loves to dive deep into web development and WordPress. We also critically question the status quo and try out new techniques. Dominik and Steffen, the founders Bleech, are long-term friends and total nerds when it comes to websites. They constantly discuss web topics internally…
The Smart Data Protector of the cookie consent manager Usercentrics used on websites has a negative impact on the page speed of websites. If you value fast loading pages, we advise you not to use the external service.
Third-party tools for A/B testing have some weaknesses. To meet our standards on A/B testing, we have developed a custom solution. This only works for our starter theme Flynt yet, but provides the basis for an overarching solution in WordPress.
After plugin updates or design adjustments, unwanted and unnoticed changes can creep into your website. Fortunately, automatic tests that detect visual changes give you the chance to find and fix any errors quickly.
Hover does not work on mobile devices. Therefore, we use an alternative approach: the Intersection Observer API. When an element reaches a certain point in the viewport, an animation is triggered – like the hover effect on the desktop. Learn here how we developed the concept and what’s the end result.
Modern websites require constant maintenance. Any small change has the potential to break your site or parts of it. This is where visual regression testing comes in. In this article we’ll take a closer look and provide examples of real-life situations.
Today, design and marketing contribute to the user experience of a website visit. This contribution is evident in the design, the content, and the website’s loading time. That means if you know Google’s key figures, you can strategically optimize the loading time based on design and marketing decisions.
Eine Website von Grund auf neu aufzusetzen macht Arbeit. Doch keine Sorge, auch ein Website-Relaunch lässt sich so organisieren, das niemand in Stress und Chaos versinkt. In diesem Guide teilen wir dir unseren Ansatz in acht Schritten und zeigen dir, wie der Relaunch am besten gelingt.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is actually the art of indexing the knowledge and expertise of your community. While it may seem like more work at the beginning, creating a well-received content briefing template will help ramp up your content marketing efforts and increase their effectiveness.
What do project managers think? With the help of an experienced project manager who has worked on a wide range of successful projects, we have compiled an extensive list of elements necessary to get the most out of your website development with an agency.
There is a reason why WordPress is the most popular platform for hosting business and enterprise websites of all sizes. Its open-source nature means that your business can choose from an array of widely available, high-quality preset themes. These popular themes allow you to quickly mock up a website for your business with preset design, plugins, and a cohesive content structure.
Let’s be honest – a good business WordPress website is never finished. After launching a high-quality website, there will always be areas to improve, tweak, maintain and update. Needless to say, the ever-changing business conditions and the need for each website to grow and accommodate new content and subpages.
In the 2020s, very few people working in modern businesses need explanations about SEO or Search Engine Optimization. To put it simply, SEO is the practice of identifying internal and external factors that may influence the amount of traffic you’re awarded from search engines and trying to influence them in return.
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