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A collection of resources for WordPress Developers, written and curated by experts

Behind-the-Scenes: How We’re Automating Acceptance Testing

Have you ever had the joy of carrying out acceptance tests? For our team at Delicious Brains, testing our releases, in the past, has been one of the most dreaded…

Ian

Aug 15, 2017

Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm

This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Building Reactive WordPress Plugins” In this final part of the Building Reactive WordPress Plugins series I’ll be exploring using Elm to…

Ian

Sep 20, 2016

Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 2 – Vue.js

This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Building Reactive WordPress Plugins” In the first part of this series I showed you how to build WP Cron Pixie, a…

Ian

Jun 7, 2016

Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 1 – Backbone.js

This is article 1 of 3 in the series “Building Reactive WordPress Plugins” This is the beginning of a short series of articles showing how to create a simple WordPress…

Ian

Apr 12, 2016

Let's Encrypt HTTPS + Linode NodeBalancer

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

Ian

Feb 16, 2016

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

Ian

Dec 16, 2015

WordPress Library Review: Extended CPTs

There are a number of introductions to WordPress Custom Post Types (CPT) to be found on the web that show how to create them, both with admin plugins and manually…

Ian

Jun 23, 2015

Dive In To WordPress Core Development

A Developer’s Guide to Contributing to WordPress Core

Every month the team here at Delicious Brains have a “WP Core Contrib Day”, a day to give back to WordPress Core. This is an important day for us as we…

Ian

Mar 19, 2015

How We Unit Test WP Migrate DB Pro

When you have a professional grade WordPress plugin such as WP Migrate DB Pro whose core functionality requires communication between two WordPress installations, how on Earth do you set up…

Ian

Jan 29, 2015