WP-CLI Packages: Supercharge Your WordPress Development
WP-CLI packages take the increased efficiency of the command line even further by extending it with new or modified commands. In this article, weβll show you how to install packages,… Read more
Online Conferences for WordPress Devs in 2024
Conferences offer a blend of targeted education and networking opportunities, a combination that can advance your skills and career. They can be expensive to attend, though. Between the ticket prices,… Read more
DE{CODE} 2023: Developer Focused WordPress Education
You know codeβ¦but do you know DE{CODE}? Hosted by WP Engine, this 100% virtual event is dedicated to helping WordPress developers build smarter, maximize conversions, and modernize the user experience.… Read more
How to Decrease Your Site Testing Time: Automated Acceptance Testing for WooCommerce
Weβve written before about how we are using automated acceptance testing to test our WordPress plugins which has decreased manual testing time and helped catch bugs before they are released.… Read more
Why You Should Use the WordPress HTTP Functions to Make API Requests
Sometimes your WordPress site needs to talk to other services around the web. This almost exclusively happens using the HTTP protocol. A common example is when your WordPress installation contacts… Read more
Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home Part 2
This is article 2 of 2 in the series “Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home” Itβs been just over a year since we posted about our struggles… Read more
Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home
This is article 1 of 2 in the series “Our Struggles to Stay Healthy While Working From Home” Recently in a Slack chat we discussed how we try and stay… Read more
Remotely Back Up Your WordPress Database and Media With WP Migrate CLI
Keeping regular backups of your WordPress installs is one of the most important things you should do after you launch a site. If you search for the term “backup” in… Read more
Vagrant vs Docker: Which is better for WordPress development?
Before Docker came on the scene Vagrant was the go-to solution for creating development environments that can be configured independently of your machine and shared with a team. There are… Read more
Let’s Encrypt HTTPS + Linode NodeBalancer
Frankly, Let’s Encrypt is possibly the best thing since sliced bread, letting you get a free SSL/TLS certificate with open source tools and an API to create and auto-renew said… Read more
How We Built an Email Queue that Can Send 100 Emails Per Second Through Amazon SES
Itβs no secret that Iβve been plugging away at WP Offload SES, a new plugin that weβre hoping to launch soon that will make it easier to send your site… Read more
Amazon SES vs SendGrid vs Mailgun vs Sendinblue: Pricing, Features, and WordPress Plugin Quality
It’s no secret that we love Amazon SES – we released a plugin that specifically helps you set it up on your WordPress site. But it’s also worth looking at… Read more
Updating WooCommerce: Our Safe & Thorough Guide
Weβve had a lot going on at Delicious Brains HQ recently; releasing this and that, planning new products, and generally pushing the envelope. However, that has meant some things have… Read more
Catching Up on CSS Features
Thereβs a pretty good chance that CSS is one of the most consistently used tools in your kit. Itβs highly familiar and often used, so much so that itβs easy… Read more
How My JavaScript Almost Crashed Your Browser and How I Fixed It
About a week before we launched WP Migrate DB Pro 1.6, I had my heart broken by Ashley Rich in our slack channel. It went something like this: /——dramatization——/ @bradt:… Read more
Improve Page Load Time For Your WordPress Site with WP Offload S3: A Case Study
One of the great things about working at Delicious Brains is working on products that I use and love outside of work. I was a WP Migrate DB Pro customer… Read more
2018 Year in Review: Our Most Productive Yet
This has been the most focused and productive year for Delicious Brains, Inc., yet. We shipped a bunch of new features for our existing products and built two new products.… Read more
MailPoet and WordPress Newsletter Plugins vs Mailchimp and Drip in 2021
There are many options when it comes to sending out email newsletters for your WordPress site. You can choose from dozens of plugins or dedicated services like Mailchimp or Drip.… Read more
Security Releases Regarding the Use of unserialize() in Delicious Brains Plugins
We were recently contacted by Wordfence and Patchstack regarding PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities related to the use of unserialize() in Better Search Replace and WP Migrate, respectively. An additional internal… Read more
How Our Team Pushes Each Other to be Better Developers
Since I started working at Delicious Brains, it seems we have been hiring pretty much constantly. Prospective new hires go through a few weeks trial where they work on our… Read more
HTTP/2, HTTPS, Let’s Encrypt and WordPress
TL;DR — HTTP/2 is awesome, but requires HTTPS, which is hard to setup. Let’s Encrypt and WordPress can make HTTPS setup simple and help achieve a faster web sooner. My… Read more
Fighting DNS Propagation with a Reverse Proxy
Migrating servers is a whole series of blog posts in itself, but here’s one aspect of your server migration that can be greatly improved using a reverse-proxy. What is a… Read more
Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress Accessibility Day, Dodge – A WordPress Game, and Improving WordPress Search
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we dip into the latest from the WordPress Developer Blog, play around with making sure WordPress stays free, see how text compression saves… Read more
Delicious Brain Bytes: WordPress 6.4, Awards Season, and the Future of Yelling at Your Computer
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we take a look at whatβs coming in WordPress 6.4, awards that honor the best in WordPress and awards that honor the ability… Read more