Hi, I’m Matze 👋🏻

I’m an enthusiastic web developer in an online marketing agency.

I love to build websites and WordPress plugins, which I publish via my project Epiphyt.

Find out more about me on my slash pages.

Projects

Epiphyt

Solving everyday WordPress problems with my plugins with a keen sense for function and user interaction.

KittMedia

German-based hosting and support around WoltLab Suite community forum software.

Latest posts

  • Self-hosting slash page is official 🎉

    Yesterday, during the 6. KrautPress Website Club, we talked about my new self-hosting slash page. The idea spun up to make it official, so I firmly asked @robb whether he would include it and just a few hours later, it’s now officially part of slashpages.net. 🥳 So: let’s spread the word, share your self-hosted software…


  • Design update for Epiphyt

    What started as updating my design at Epiphyt regarding certain accessibility issues (mainly proper accessible names for some navigations as well as contrast issue fixes) ended up with a rather complex design update.


  • Successful vacation

    When having vacation, many people want to travel. I’m different. I want to work on my projects. And so I did the last two weeks. And it was great fun by working on multiple projects to take them further. For me, developing is not just a job, it’s my passion and I also love to…


Latest updates

  • Vacuuming and mopping

    After nearly 4 years, it’s time to replace my Roborock S4 Max with a new vacuum cleaner that can also mop. I decided for an Ecovacs Deebot T80 OMNI and so far, it’s really nice. It’s a little bit slower, but way quieter (incredible, especially due to the fact that the vacuum performance raised from…


  • Password length

    It’s absolutely lovable if a service limits the maximum password length but doesn’t tell you while registering. It just truncated the password, but doesn’t do it on login, so the login fails. It’s 2025 and services still limit password lengths … and sometimes fail to even notify the user. 🤦🏻‍♂️


  • Self-hosting slash page

    I’ve added a custom slash page to my site: Self-hosting Why? I find it interesting what people use for self-hosting and I’m always happy if I find something new others use.


  • Working on saving form submissions

    I’m currently working on saving form submissions in Form Block and already made huge progress. UI still needs some work (and also the field output is currently in plain text – meh – but for now, I’m pretty happy with its current state. I did also mention that the default post lists (posts, pages) ignore…


  • Self-hosting testing day

    Today, it’s my self-hosting testing day. I’ll test some software found on the awesome-selfhosted list on GitHub. Testing includes: