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WordPress enthusiast and Web Developer from Germany. Once a proud Genesis Framework user and translator of the German language files for Genesis (and lot of WP plugins already). Founder of DECKERWEB in 2000. I enjoy riding on my bike, tons of great music from all over the world and a strong tasty German coffee. — You can find my WordPress related code (plugins, snippets…) at GitHub

WordPress, Builders (Bricks, Breakdance, Oxygen), Plugins, Code Snippets, Web, Apps, Apple ecosystem, some Open Source, Spirituality, Music, Saxony, Germany, History

Speaker at WordCamps / WP Camps:
2014: WordCamp Hamburg, Germany (was planned, could not be there)
2013: WP Camp Berlin, Germany
2012: WP Camp Berlin, Germany
2011: WordCamp Germany, in Cologne
2008: WordCamp Hamburg, Germany

How My WordPress Story Began:
In 2003 I was on longer search for a “more dynamic system” to replace my static HTML sites. It was the time when blogging began, so I tried “Blogger” and lots of other simple CMS systems. I was unsatisfied with most of them. Then I remember coming to a blog about the big Tsunami Disaster in 2004/2005 in Asia. That blog from an Aussie and was running on WordPress. I took a look and the platform just clicked with me! I jumped in headfirst, but I failed to install WordPress successfully numerous times (today I guess it was the cheap hosting I had then…).

In summer of 2006 I managed my first successful install of WordPress (I guess it was version 2.0.2) and I was really blown away of that system. The next weeks and months I abandoned everything else to play with WordPress, before building my first website completely with WordPress for a church youth group. That was really fun, and I learned so much about WordPress and how flexible it was (and is)! Then, at the end of 2006, I made a bold decision after this single WordPress website: To switch all my freelance work over to WordPress. With that, my search for good themes began…

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